Eduard Gaertner

Self portrait, 1829

Saint Nicholas' Church, Ghent

Johann Philipp Eduard Gaertner (or Gärtner) (1801 – 77) was a German architectural painter.

Life

Gaertner was born at Berlin in 1801. As a child he was taught to paint by Müller at Kassel, before returning to Berlin, where, at the age of twelve, he began work as a painter in a porcelain factory.^[1] After training at the Berlin Academy he was apprenticed to the court theatre painter Karl Wilhelm Gropius, and from 1825 spent three years under Jean-Victor Bertin in Paris. He then returned to Berlin where his naturalistic views of Berlin won him the patronage of Wilhelm III, King of Prussia, and Czar Nicholas I,^[2] for whom he worked in Russia in 1837-9.^[1]

He died at Berlin in 1877.^[1]

In 1993, the painting Schlossfreiheit von der Schlossbrücke, Berlin was sold at Christie's in London for £936,500 (or $1,401,004).^[3]

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Sources

This article incorporates text from the article "GÄRTNER, Johann Philipp Eduard" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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