Discover faience painter, painter Abraham Leihamer (II)

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: Leihammer, Abraham

Qualifications: faience painter, painter

Nationality/school: German, Danish
second generation immigrant from the Dutch Republic

Born: Stockelsdorf 1745

Deceased: Stockelsdorf 1774-12-04

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Johannes Leihamer and Anna Dorothea Salbin; married to Catharina Theresia Buchwald (born 1750), daughter of faience factory owner Johann Georg Ludwig Bonifaz Buchwald

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

often worked together with Georg Friedrich Zopf

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Eckernförde 1764 - 1768
in 1764 he was confirmed in the church of Eckernförde (Ahlefeldt-Laurvig 1994)
Kiel 1768 - 1771
worked with his father and father-in-law in the faience factory in Kiel
Lübeck 1772 - 1774
worked in the faience factory in Stockelsdorf near Lübeck

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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.: Leihamer, Johannes
probably trained by his father in the factories of Schleswig, Criseby or Eckernförde (Ahlefeldt-Laurvig 1994)
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Goyen, Jan van
Boucher, François
Nilson, Johann Esaias
Rugendas, Georg Philipp (I)

worked after engravings

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.: flower piece, landscape (genre), figure, cavalry battle, inn scene, hunting scene

Literature

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 22 (1928), p. 594 (as Abraham Leihamer)

Project: Gerson Digital : Denmark
Gerson Digital : Germany

External links: this artist in Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbachs kunstnerleksikon online (J. Ahlefeldt-Laurvig, 1994) as Abraham Leihammer

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Creation date: 2022-01-26; Last modified date: 2023-04-04

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