Gottlieb Welté, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gottlieb Welté

German painter

Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1745

Place of Birth: Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Date of Death: 17-Dec-1792

Profession: painter, etcher

Nationality: Estonia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Christian Gottlieb Welté (3 December 1745/49 – 17 December 1792) was an etcher and landscape painter from Mainz, Germany. His works, accomplished mostly in small format, represent rococo and transition to early classicism.
In Estonia, he painted figural staffages on large Põltsamaa landscapes and depicted Estonian peasants in the 1780s; in Mainz and Frankfurt-am-Main he was known mostly as an etcher and a landscapist.
Welté was a typical artist of the Enlightenment – pensive, developing and nonconformist.He worked in Estonia in the late 18th century at the Põltsamaa Castle and Põltsamaa porcelain manufacture (1781-1784), then as a homeschool teacher in the Võisiku manor (1785-1788) and spent his last years at the Lohu manor in the present-day Kohila Parish, Rapla County, where he died in 1792.
His most important work, the illusionist fresco wall paintings in the hall of the Lohu manor covering 27,6 m², were discovered in the 1960s under the Grisaille pictorial fresco wall papers on the theme of Don Quixote, printed by "Jacquemart & Bénard" in Paris, France.



Alternative names	Gottlieb Waelte der Junge; Gottlieb Waelte; Gottlieb Welte; Gottlieb Welde; Welde; der junge Waelte; Welte
Description	German painter and etcher
Date of birth/death	3 December 1745/49	17 December 1792
Location of birth/death	Mainz	Lohu, Estonia
Authority control	: Q477316 VIAF: 47939393 ISNI: 0000 0001 1636 3242 ULAN: 500019338 LCCN: no2008081972 GND: 133002977 WorldCat