What is Georg Holtzendorff?
[[File:Derby Museum and Art Gallery on a plate.jpg|thumb|Georg Holtzendorff - Becket Street]] '''Georg Holtzendorff''' was a 19th-century [[Germany|German]] [[landscape]] [[painting|painter]] from [[Saxony]]. He moved to [[England]] because of the [[Franco-Prussian War]].<ref>{{cite book| last = Sargeant| first = Margaret| title = Royal Crown Derby| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VHFQvgAACAAJ| date = 2008| publisher = Bloomsbury USA| isbn = 978-0-7478-0443-7 }}</ref> Holtzendorff worked for the [[Royal Crown Derby|Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Company]]. He sketched the landscape of [[Derbyshire]] and these were used as designs for [[porcelain]].<ref>{{cite book| last = Burke| first = Edmund| title = The Annual register of world events| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fjkJAAAAIAAJ| accessdate = 2011-06-13| year = 1884| publisher = Longmans| page = 52 }}</ref> His main work was the decoration of the ''Gladstone Dessert Service'', presented by the [[Working Men's Club and Institute Union|Liberal Working Men]] of [[Derby]] to Prime Minister [[William Ewart Gladstone]] in 1883. [[Watercolour]] by Holtzendorff, with a view of Becket Street, Derby, with the [[Derby Museum and Art Gallery]] in the background, is the only remaining study on paper linked to the ''Gladstone service''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artfund.org/artwork/5474/becket-street,-derby |title=Becket Street, Derby |publisher=ArtFund |accessdate=2011-06-13 |archive-date=2011-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725014407/http://www.artfund.org/artwork/5474/becket-street,-derby |url-status=dead }}</ref> == References == <references /> {{Derby Museum}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Holtzendorff, Georg}} [[Category:19th-century births]] [[Category:19th-century deaths]] [[Category:German painters]]