Georg Friedrich Schlater

Georg Friedrich Schlater (13 May 1804, Tilsit - 14 April 1870, Dorpat) was a Baltic-German painter, lithographer and drawing teacher.

Stone Bridge, Dorpat
Main Building of the University of Dorpat

Biography

He was born to Georg Friedrich Schlater, a wheelwright, and his wife, Eva Rosina, née Rimler. He learned decorative painting and moved to Riga after leaving home. Around 1834 he moved again, to Dorpat, where he worked painting figures on cardboard that were used as sets for puppet theatres. He occasionally painted the puppets themselves, and children's toys. Eventually, he became a student of Karl August Senff.[1] In 1837, he found employment as a drawing teacher at the Höheren Stadt-Töchterschule, a girls' school.[2]

That same year, he opened a lithographic studio and published scenic pictures of the areas around Dorpat. He also published works by other artists, including August Matthias Hagen, August Georg Wilhelm Pezold and Eduard Hau. In 1838, he became a senior drawing teacher at the Veterinary Institute. While there, he created illustrations for Chirurgische Anatomie der Arterienstämme und Fascien, by Professor Nikolay Pirogov, which earned him a gold medal.[3] During that same period, he began experimenting with multi-colored lithographs.

In 1852, the Imperial Academy of Arts awarded him the title of "Free Artist" for his painting, The Crossing to Annenhof near Dorpat. In his later years, after 1855, he became increasingly interested in photography.[4] In 1857, he sold his studio to Louis Höflinger.

He was married twice; to Friederike Hoffmann (1829), with whom he had six children, including the painter Alexander Georg Schlater, and to Sophia Elisabeth Stratmann (1850). The latter marriage was childless.

References
  1. Heino Eelsalu, Dieter B. Herrmann, Jürgen Hamel; Johann Heinrich Mädler, 1794–1874: eine dokumentarische Biographie, Akademie-Verlag, 1985 (Google Books)
  2. Karl Freyherrn Budberg; Allgemeines Adress-Buch für das Gouvernement Livland und die Provinz Oesel, Müllerschen Buchdruckerei, Riga, 1840 (Google Books)
  3. Friedrich Georg von Bunge; Das Inland. Eine Wochenschrift für Liv-, Esth- und Curländische Geschichte, Geographie, Statistik und Litteratur, Kluge, 1838 (Google Books)
  4. Wilhelm Neumann, "Schlater, Georg Friedrich", in: Lexikon Baltischer Künstler, Jonck & Poliewsky, Riga; 1908

Further reading
  • Wilhelm Neumann, Baltische Maler und Bildhauer des XIX. Jahrhunderts: biographische Skizzen mit den Bildnissen der Künstler und Reproductionen nach ihren Werken, Graphischen Kunstanstalten v. A. Grosset, Riga, 1902
  • "Schlater, Friedrich". In: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Vol.30: Scheffel–Siemerding. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1936, pg.94
  • Georg Friedrich Schlater @ the Estonian Art Museum, Digital Collection
  • Nikolai I. Pirogoff, Chirurgische Anatomie der Arterienstämme und Fascien: Neu bearbeitet von Julius Szymanowski. Mit 50 Abbildungen nach der Natur gezeichnet von F. Schlater, lithographirtvon C. Schmiedel, C. F. Winter, Leipzig, 1860 (Full text online)
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