Gotthelf Leberecht Glaeser

Gotthelf Leberecht Glaeser (11 July 1784 – 19 May 1851) was a German painter of the Biedermeier movement.

Life and works He was born in Pegau (Ehrenfriedersdorf/Erzgebirge), where his parents were the cantor Johann Friedrich Gotthelf Glaeser (1755–1814) and his wife Christiane Hübler (d. 1814).

According to Georg Kaspar Nagler, he was a student of Friedrich August Tischbein in Leipzig, but was also influenced by Anton Graff. In 1812, he became court painter in Darmstadt. In 1817 he married Margarethe Elisabeth Frey (d. 1854), On the early courtly portraits until about 1820, delicate colors dominate. Influences of the 18th century can still be seen here and his style was compared to Anton Graff due to his unpretentious and objective style. He had some of his works reproduced by lithography.

Glaeser died in 1851 in Langen. Glaeserweg is named for him, in Darmstadt-Arheilgen.