Gotthelf Leberecht Glaeser

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

His parents were the cantor and teacher in Pegau( Ehrenfriedersdorf/Erzgebirge), Johann Friedrich Gotthelf Glaeser (1755-1814) and his wife Christiane Hübler († 1814).

[1] According to Georg Kaspar Nagler, he was a student of Friedrich August Tischbein in Leipzig,[2] but was also influenced by Anton Graff.

Glaeser specialized in portraiture and seems to have mainly worked in the medium of oil and pastels[3] On the early courtly portraits until about 1820, delicate colors dominate.

Among the well-known figures painted by Glaeser were the Grand Duchess Luise and Prince Christian of Hesse-Darmstadt as well as other members of the court, as well as bourgeois and the publisher August Schumann.