Rudolph Friedrich Carl Suhrlandt (19 December 1781, in

Ludwigslust Ludwigslust () is a central castle town of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, 40 km south of Schwerin. Since 2011 it has been part of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district. Ludwigslust is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. The former royal r ...

– 2 February 1862, in

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) was a German portrait painter and

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Biography

His father, Johann Heinrich Suhrlandt, was a

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for Grand Duke Fredrick Francis I of Mecklenburg. His first art lessons came from his father. In 1799, he became a student at the

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, with a royal scholarship and a recommendation from

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. His teachers there included

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and

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. Hela Baudis: ''Rudolph Suhrlandt (1781–1862). Grenzgänger zwischen Klassizismus und Biedermeier. Leben und Werk eines deutschen Hofmalers und Porträtisten des Bürgertums''. Diss. Greifswald 2008
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In 1803, he moved to Vienna to take classes at the

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with

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. There, he acquainted himself with the writings of

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and came under the influence of

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. He also established his reputation by producing portraits of Polish and Russian aristocrats. In 1808, he went to Rome, where he joined the

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and associated with the "Deutschrömer" (Germans residing in Rome). Over one-hundred of his drawings from this period are in the

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. By 1816, he was back in Mecklenburg, where he joined his father as a court painter. The following year, he was awarded the title of Professor. His contract allowed him to travel for several months every two years, which he took advantage of to visit Stockholm, Saint Petersburg and London. From 1822 to 1844, he sporadically lived in

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, but Mecklenburg remained his home, having built a house there in 1818. He married the lithographer, Wilhelmine Skoglund, in 1824. After 1849, they lived in Schwerin. His son,

Carl Suhrlandt Carl Suhrlandt (10 July 1828, Ludwigslust - 11 February 1919, Kochel am See) was a German painter. All of his works feature animals; mostly horses. Life and work He came from a family of artists. His father, Rudolph Suhrlandt, was a court pain ...

, also became a painter. His daughter, , was a concert violinist as well as a painter.

Writings

* ''Aphorismen über die bildenden Künste, durch Beispiele erläutert.'' (Aphorisms in the Visual Arts Explained, with Examples), Sandmeyer (1857) 94 pgs.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Suhrlandt, Rudolph 1781 births 1862 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters Portrait painters People from Ludwigslust

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