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Georg David Matthieu (20 November 1737,
Berlin Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European U ...
- 3 November 1778, Ludwigslust) was a German engraver and portrait painter in the
Rococo Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...
style who worked as court painter for the Duke of Mecklenburg.


Life

He grew up in a family of artists. His father, , was a court painter in
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. Through his stepmother Anna Rosina (his father's third wife), he was related to
Georg Lisiewski Georg Lisiewski or Jerzy Lisiewski (1674 – 6 January 1750), was a Baroque portrait painter at the court of King Frederick William I of Prussia. Lisiewski, of Polish descent, became head of a notable family of painters spanning three generatio ...
(her father), who also worked at the Prussian court, and her siblings, Anna Dorothea Therbusch and Christoph Lisiewski. Her children, Leopold (1750-1778) and Rosina (1748-1795) also became painters. He was a close friend of Jakob Philipp Hackert and probably accompanied him on study trips to Italy. From 1762 to 1764, he was a guest in the home of
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, the Swedish Governor in
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, which was part of Swedish Pomerania at that time. In return, he produced many portraits of the Von Olthofs and other Swedish nobility. It was there that he was commissioned to do a portrait of Queen Sophie Charlotte (who had just married King
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) for display at Gripsholm Castle. In 1764, as a result of that portrait, he became the court painter for the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and was given an apartment in Ludwigslust Palace. For the remainder of his life, he was on call and kept busy, painting portraits of the ducal family and their relatives. He also gave lessons to , who would later become the court painter at Ludwigslust, but the relationship was apparently not a harmonious one, as Seehas left to study in Dresden instead. Matthieu's step-uncle, Christoph Lisiewski, succeeded him as court painter. Matthieu's paintings may now be seen in all of the ducal residences, although some have also been acquired by the Staatliches Museum Schwerin and the
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.


References


Further reading

* Ernst Steinmann, Hans Witte: ''Georg David Matthieu. Ein deutscher Maler des Rokoko (1737-1778).'' Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1911 (with a catalog of his works)


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Matthieu, Georg David 1737 births 1778 deaths 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters German portrait painters 18th-century engravers German engravers Artists from Berlin