Friedrich Georg Weitsch

Friedrich Georg Weitsch (8 August 1758, Braunschweig – 30 May 1828, Berlin) was a German painter and etcher.

Weitsch began his artistic training with his father, "Pascha" Johann Friedrich Weitsch (1723–1803). He attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. After traveling to Amsterdam and Italy between 1784 and 1787, he returned home and became court painter to Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick. In 1794 he became a member of the Berlin Academy of Art and became its director in 1798 (succeeding Bernhard Rode). He married in 1794 and did not have children.

His work included landscapes, history and religious painting, and portraits of royal and civil authorities—the latter showing the influence of Anton Graff. Some are held at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, the Städtisches Museum, and the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, all in Braunschweig. He painted a portrait of Alexander von Humboldt and an imagined landscape with Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland in Ecuador.

Gallery

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  Alexander von Humboldt (1806). Alte Nationalgalerie.
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  Humboldt and his fellow scientist Aimé Bonpland at the foot of the Chimborazo volcano (1810)
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  Karl August von Hardenberg (c. 1822)
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  Art historian Aloys Hirt in Rome
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  Historian Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz (ca. 1790)
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  Sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow during a work break (ca. 1795)
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  Friedrich Schiller (1804)
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  King Friedrich Wilhelm III and Queen Luise of Prussia and Czar Alexander I at the sarcophagus of Friedrich II (1806)
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  Russian commander Nikolai Kamenski (1810)
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  Carl Friedrich Gebhard Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg (ca. 1810)
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  Marcus Herz
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  Geographer Carl Ritter

External links

• Media related to Friedrich Georg Weitsch at Wikimedia Commons