Julius Döring
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31 August 1818
Julius Döring | |
|---|---|
| Born | Friedrich Julius Döring[1] 31 August 1818 |
| Died | 26 September 1898 (aged 80) |
| Alma mater | Dresden Academy of Fine Arts |
| Occupations | Painter, historian, archaeologist, librarian |
Julius Döring (31 August 1818 – 26 September 1898) was a Baltic German painter, drawing teacher, historian, archaeologist, librarian and museum worker.
Friedrich Julius Döring was born on 31 August 1818 in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony.[2] He attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. From 1838 he was trained there by Eduard Bendemann as portrait and history painter. In 1844, he traveled through southern Germany and northern Italy, drawing costumes for the poet E. Duller's "History of the German People" ("Geschichte des deutschen Volks").
After the painting of his first altar painting in 1845 in Poznań, he was invited to Mitau to work as a drawing teacher at Jelgava Gymnasium, in addition to which he also taught private lessons, was actively engaged in making portraits and painting church altarpieces.[3] Döring was a long-time member of the Kurzeme Society of Literature and Art. Since 1860 he worked as a librarian at the Kurland Provincial Museum and Athenaeum. From 1887, he was a corresponding member of the Learned Estonian Society in Dorpat.
In 1852 he toured Germany, Italy and France. He was interested in the latest literature and spoke French and Italian. He went on a trip to Greece and Palestine in 1885 and 1889.
Paintings
In his lifetime, Döring created 1,106 portraits, 23 altar paintings and three historical genre paintings.[3] Of his portraits, only a few have survived. Portrait orders came most often from landlords and civic circles.[4] Most of his altar paintings have survived. They are conventional and traditional, directly or indirectly following earlier works. Several almost identical repetitions of compositions (churches in Iecava, Jelgava, Salas, Sauka, Bauska) show a typical production.[5]
