Daniel Woge
German painter and drawer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
German painter and drawer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel Woge (1717-1797) was a German drawer (artists) and painter.
He was born in Berlin and trained under Antoine Pesne before being summoned to Neustrelitz by Adolphus Frederick IV to be his court painter. He remained in the town until his death there. He mainly produced portraits of Adolphus Frederick and his family, though he did also produce altarpieces (such as that for the Nikolaikirche in Friedland) and produced drawings which others worked up for engravings. All the major museums in Mecklenburg have paintings by him in their collections - there are also some in the portrait collection at Gripsholm Castle in Sweden.
In 1770 he was commissioned by Crown Prince Charles to paint a series in oils showing the Prillwitz idols. Johann Conrad Krüger produced engravings after the original paintings and these were included in the 1771 volume Die gottesdienstlichen Alterthümer der Obotriten aus dem Tempel zu Rhetra, am Tollenzer-See, co-authored by Andreas Gottlieb Masch and Woge himself[1]
The Gripsholm Castle portrait collection includes three oil on canvas works by him:
The British Royal Collection houses three works by him, all oil on canvas:
Four other portraits by Woge formerly in the private collection of the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and in the 1954 catalogue of the Staatlichen Museum Schwerin, were returned to the family and then in 1999 auctioned at Christie's in Amsterdam:
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