Discover painter, court painter, porcelain painter Benjamin Calau

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: Kalau, Benjamin

Qualifications: painter, court painter, porcelain painter

Nationality/school: German

Born: Friedrichstadt (an der Eider) 1724-06/1724-06-25
baptized 25 June 1724

Deceased: Berlin (city) 1785-01-27

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Christoph Kallau; brother of Friedrich Calau

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Education: Akademie der Künste (Berlijn 1918-1926)

Active in

Sint-Petersburg (stad) 1743 - 1746-02
served as imperial court painter with his father and brother
Riga
went back to Germany via Riga
Leipzig 1752 - 1766
Dresden 1752 - 1766
Leipzig 1766
held positions in the Leipziger gild from 1766 on
Berlijn (stad) 1771
court painter at the Prussian court

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Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Kallau, Christoph

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: portrait

Literature

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 5 (1911), p. 373
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 307
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 48
Saur 1992- , vol. 15 (1997), p. 553
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 3, p. 115

H. Heldt, 'Der Berliner Hofmaler Benjamin Calau (1724 – 1785) aus Friedrichstadt', Nordelbingen: Beiträge zur Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte Schleswig-Holsteins 74 (2005)

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Project: Gerson Digital : Germany (Nachwirkung)

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Creation date: 1991-11-27; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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