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Paul Heinecken
Paul Heinecken or Heineken (9 December 1674, Riga - 1746, Lübeck) Alken Bruns: "Heineken, Paul", In: ''Lübecker Lebensläufe aus neun Jahrhunderten'', Karl Wachholtz Verlag, 1993 was a German painter, architect, and graphic artist. He enjoyed a few years of fame as the father of Christian Heinrich Heineken, a child prodigy known as " "The infant scholar of Lübeck". Biography He was one of the sons of Hinrich Henicke (also given as Hänicke or Hönnicken, 1639/40-1705), a Master Builder from Holstein. After learning the basics of architectural drawing from his father, he went to Lübeck to study with . From there, he went to Venice and Rome, where his earliest original drawings were made. In 1707, after several years working as a sign poster, he became a citizen of Lübeck and, after some negotiating, was awarded the status of "" by the City Council, making him independent of the local guilds. That status enabled him to marry the artist Catharina Elisabeth Heinecken, Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinecken Speculum Frontispiece
Heinecken is a surname of German origin. People with this name include: * Robert Heinecken (1931–2006), American artist * Catharina Elisabeth Heinecken (1683–1757), German artist and alchemist * Mickey Heinecken (b. 1939), former American football coach See also Heineken (surname) {{surname, Heinecken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enamel Painting
Vitreous enamel, also called porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between . The powder melts, flows, and then hardens to a smooth, durable vitreous coating. The word ''vitreous'' comes from the Latin , meaning "glassy". Enamel can be used on metal, glass, ceramics, stone, or any material that will withstand the fusing temperature. In technical terms fired enamelware is an integrated layered composite of glass and another material (or more glass). The term "enamel" is most often restricted to work on metal, which is the subject of this article. Essentially the same technique used with other bases is known by different terms: on glass as ''enamelled glass'', or "painted glass", and on pottery it is called ''overglaze decoration'', "overglaze enamels" or "enamelling". The craft is called "enamelling", the artists "enamellers" and the objects produced can be called "enamels". Enamelling is an old and widely adopted tech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Artists
German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also German nationality law **Germanic peoples (Roman era) *German diaspora * German language * German cuisine, traditional foods of Germany People * German (given name) * German (surname) * Germán, a Spanish name Places * German (parish), Isle of Man * German, Albania, or Gërmej * German, Bulgaria * German, Iran * German, North Macedonia * German, New York, U.S. * Agios Germanos, Greece Other uses * German (mythology), a South Slavic mythological being * Germans (band), a Canadian rock band * "German" (song), a 2019 song by No Money Enterprise * ''The German'', a 2008 short film * "The Germans", an episode of ''Fawlty Towers'' * ''The German'', a nickname for Congolese rebel André Kisase Ngandu See also * Germanic (disambiguati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1746 Deaths
Events January–March * January 8 – The Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart occupies Stirling, Scotland. * January 17 – Battle of Falkirk Muir: United Kingdom, British Government forces are defeated by Jacobite forces. * February 1 – Jagat Singh II, the ruler of the Mewar Kingdom, inaugurates his Lake Palace on the island of Jag Niwas in Lake Pichola, in what is now the state of Rajasthan in northwest India. * February 19 – Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, issues a proclamation offering an amnesty to participants in the Jacobite rising of 1745, Jacobite rebellion, directing them that they can avoid punishment if they turn their weapons in to their local Presbyterian church. * February 22 – Brussels, at the time part of the Austrian Netherlands, surrenders to France's Marshal Maurice de Saxe. * March 10 – Zakariya Khan Bahadur, the Mughal Empire's viceroy administering Lahore (in what is now Pakistan), orders the massacre of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1674 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The French West India Company is dissolved after less than 10 years. * January 7 – In the Chinese Empire, General Wu Sangui leads troops into the Giuzhou province, and soon takes control of the entire territory without a loss. * January 15 – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, The Earl of Arlington, a member of the English House of Commons, is impeached on charges of popery, but the Commons rejects the motion to remove him from office, 127 votes for and 166 against. * January 19 – The tragic opera ''Alceste (Lully), Alceste'', by Jean-Baptiste Lully, is performed for the first time, presented by the Paris Opera company at the Theatre du Palais-Royal in Paris. * February 19 – Kingdom of England, England and the Dutch Republic, Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster (1674), Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Its provisions come into effect gradually (''see'' November 10). * Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thieme-Becker
Thieme-Becker is a German biographical dictionary of artists. Thieme-Becker The dictionary was begun under the editorship of Ulrich Thieme (1865–1922) (volumes one to fifteen) and Felix Becker (1864–1928) (volumes one to four). It was completed under the editorship of Frederick Charles Willis (b. 1883) (volumes fourteen and fifteen) and Hans Vollmer (1878–1969) (volumes sixteen to thirty-seven)."The Project: From Thieme-Becker to the Artists’ Database," GmbH.Heinz Ladendorf, "Das Allgemeine Lexikon der bildenden Künstler Thieme-Becker-Vollmer," in Magdalena George (ed.), ''Festschrift Hans Vol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. The Hamburg Metropolitan Region has a population of over 5.1 million and is the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, eighth-largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. At the southern tip of the Jutland Peninsula, Hamburg stands on the branching River Elbe at the head of a estuary to the North Sea, on the mouth of the Alster and Bille (Elbe), Bille. Hamburg is one of Germany's three city-states alongside Berlin and Bremen (state), Bremen, and is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south. The Port of Hamburg is Germany's largest and Europe's List of busiest ports in Europe, third-largest, after Port of Rotterdam, Rotterda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Harper
Johann Harper (August 1688, Stockholm - 4 December 1746, Potsdam) was a Swedish painter who worked at the Prussia, Prussian Royal Court. Biography He was the son of Jakob Harper, a merchant, and his wife Anna née Pohl. His first painting lessons came from Martin Mijtens the Elder, Peter Martin van Mytens and David von Krafft in Stockholm. Then he studied with the court painter Benoît Le Coffre in Copenhagen. In 1709, together with Ismael Mengs, eft Copenhagen for a trip to Germany, where he studied with Paul Heinecken in the Hanseatic League, Hanseatic City of Lübeck. After completing his studies, he became a popular Portrait miniature, miniature and Enamel painting, enamel painter. From 1712, he worked in Berlin. In 1716, he was appointed court painter for the Hohenzollerns. There, he created portraits and decorations at Charlottenburg Palace. In the 1740s, he created the ceiling painting, "'Flora (mythology), Flora and her Followers" for the vestibule at the new Sanssouci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismael Mengs
Ismael Israel Mengs (1688–1764) was a Danish-born portrait and enamel painter of Jewish ancestry; active mainly at the court of Dresden. Biography His family was originally from Lusatia. He began by studying enamel painting with Benoît Le Coffre, a French artist who worked for the Danish court. In 1709, after further training in Hamburg and Schwerin, he studied oil painting with Paul Heinecken in Lübeck. Following travels in Germany, Austria and Italy, he settled in Dresden and worked as a miniaturist. Shortly after, he was baptized as a Lutheran. In 1714, he became a Court Painter to Augustus II, the King of Poland and Elector of Saxony.Rudolf Grulich: "Ein getaufter Jude aus Dänemark und die Aussiger Madonna". In: ''Mitteilungen Haus Königstein'', # 5 (2011), Vol.4, p. 17 He made a study trip to Italy in 1718. There, he was impressed by the works of Raphael and Correggio. Later, when teaching his children, he employed the lessons he had learned from examining their w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Miniature
A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting from Renaissance art, usually executed in gouache, Watercolor painting, watercolor, or Vitreous enamel, enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures in illuminated manuscripts, and were popular among 16th-century elites, mainly in England and France, and spread across the rest of Europe from the middle of the 18th century, remaining highly popular until the development of daguerreotypes and photography in the mid-19th century. They were usually intimate gifts given within the family, or by hopeful males in courtship, but some rulers, such as James I of England, gave large numbers as diplomatic or political gifts. They were especially likely to be painted when a family member was going to be absent for significant periods, whether a husband or son going to war or emigrating, or a daughter getting married. The first miniaturists used watercolour to paint on stretched vellum, or (especially in Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinecken Speculum XC
Heinecken is a surname of German origin. People with this name include: * Robert Heinecken Robert Heinecken (1931 – May 19, 2006) was an American artist who referred to himself as a "paraphotographer" because he so often made photographic images without a camera. Early life and education Born in Denver in 1931, Heinecken grew up in Ri ... (1931–2006), American artist * Catharina Elisabeth Heinecken (1683–1757), German artist and alchemist * Mickey Heinecken (b. 1939), former American football coach See also Heineken (surname) {{surname, Heinecken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
