Johann Friedrich Tielker (Tielcker)

German painter, draughtsman, engraver, interior designer, architect. Elder brother of painter Franz Karl Tielker (1765–1845). Born in the north German town of Brunswick (1763). Trained as a silhouettist and taught himself miniature portraiture. Lived and worked in Celle, Münster, Osnabrück and Hanover (1784–86), Aachen (1786–88), Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck (1788–89). Returned to Brunswick (1789), visited Magdeburg, Leipzig and Gotha (1790) and lived in Frankfurt-on-Main (1790–92), where he attended the coronation of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (1792). Appointed court painter in Darmstadt (1792), where he portrayed the future Queen Louise of Prussia and her sister Princess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1792–93). Visited Mainz (1793) and moved at the invitation of Queen Louise to Berlin (1793), where he worked at the Prussian court (1793–1802) and created the first circular panorama of Berlin (1800). Visited Königsberg (1802). Lived and worked in Riga (1802–04) and St Petersburg (1804–05). Accompanied Count Yury Golovkin’s unsuccessful embassy to China (1805–06). Visited Mitawa and Riga (1806). Lived and worked in Moscow (1806–10), Berlin (1810), Riga (1810–13) and St Petersburg (1813–26). Visited Vienna, Prague and Carlsbad (1823) and returned to Brunswick (1826), where he painted portraits and landscapes in turpentine paints (1826–32). Visited Riga (1828). Died and buried in Brunswick (1832).