Portraits

“Eine schlanke Mittelfigur mit dunkellockigem Haar, freundlich schönem Angesichte; seine hübschen dunklen Augen waren von gutmütig schelmischen Ausdruck, heiter lebendig; seine ganze Erscheinung, sein ganzes Wesen voll Frohsinn und Laune, gewandt und gefällig”.
Philipp Düringer: “Albert Lortzing, sein Leben und Wirken”. Leipzig 1851.

Lortzing in his youth
Source: Lippische Landesbibliothek, Detmold. Lortzing-Archiv.
Engraving by A. Duncan.
Source: Lippische Landesbibliothek, Detmold. Lortzing-Archiv.
Engraving after a drawing by C. Scheuchzer.
Source: Lippische Landesbibliothek, Mus-Lb 1W1.
Silhouette: Lortzing in Detmold (1826-1833).
Source: Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Lortzing in 1839. Painted by J.H. Bey (Leipzig) after a water-colour by E. Brand.
Source: Kruse, 1899.
Lortzing with his friend Philipp Reger, 1844. Daguerreotypie.
Source: H.Chr. Worbs: Lortzing
Portrait by Schlick – 1845
Copy of Schlick portrait by Bruno Wittenstein
©George Overmeire 2001
Lortzing by an unknown artist.
Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold.
©George Overmeire 2001
V.A. Heck. Vienna. Lithographie
Lortzing painted in 1825, probably by his oncle Johann Friedrich Lortzing (1782 – 1851).
Source: Private collection of R.M Koning.
Lortzing Bust
©George Overmeire 2007

This one is at the Lippische Landesbibliothek in Detmold.
I would love to own one myself; so if any of you, readers, would like to give me something in return for my efforts to maintain this website – A Lortzing Bust is at the top of my wishlist. 🙂

Lortzing’s Deathmask
©George Overmeire 2007
Lortzing mit Schnurrbart
Source: Lippische Landesbibliothek; Mus-L 155-18.
Lortzing Portait Card by Eichhorn
BKWI (Brüder Kohn) Vienna Desc – Lortzing portrait card – part of a large series by Eichhorn with other composers.
Albert Lortzing, Brustbild

I found this Lortzing portrait accidentally on the website of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Actually I was looking for something completely different (having nothing to do with musicology at all), and that is how great the adventure of life and/or science can be – IMHO. The Porträtsammlung Friedrich Nicolas Manskopf includes several portraits of Lortzing. This one was, until now, unknown to me. Unfortunately the original painter is not mentioned. An interesting detail to me is the grand piano in the background.

Title: Albert Lortzing, Brustbild
Participants: Lortzing, Albert
Published: Frankfurt am Main: Stadt- und Univ.-Bibliothek, 2003
Description: Gemälde als fotografische Reproduktion, s/w, Postkartenformat
Annotation: Signatur des Originals: S 36/F05289

Posted by George Overmeire on January 26th, 2020