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Julius Eduard Wilhelm Helfft (born April 6, 1818 in Berlin , Prussia , † March 28, 1894 ibid) was a German landscape and architecture painter .
Live and act
Julius Helfft studied as a student of the landscape painter Wilhelm Schirmer from 1835 at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. At the academy exhibitions since 1836 he showed landscape and architectural views from the Mark Brandenburg , Saxony , Bohemia and Silesia and after his first study visit to Florence , Rome , Naples and Genoa , between 1843 and 1847, also vedute from Italian regions. Friedrich Wilhelm IV acquired some of his paintings, at least six of which were hung in Prussian castles. In the last years of his life, Helfft was no longer able to do his job because of an eye problem.
He bequeathed some of his sketches and studies to the Berlin Art Academy and set up a foundation , the proceeds of which the Academy paid out to the winner every year after a competition for young German landscape painters as the “Julius Helfftschen Prize” to finance a one-year study trip. Some of his works were destroyed in World War II or were lost as spoils of war.
Works (selection)
- Venice: The Riva degli Schiavoni, outside to the west the Punta della Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute , 1844
- View of Mount Vesuvius from the terrace of a house in Sorrento , 1845
- The Doge's Palace in Venice and a Sicilian monastery courtyard , 1847
- View into the loggia of an Italian villa, Villa Frascati in Rome , 1848
- The music room of Fanny Hensel , b. Mendelssohn Bartholdy , 1849
- Venice , 1849
- Villa with pergola on the Gulf of Naples , 1850 (The painting was created in memory of the meeting in Rome in 1845 with his cousin Fanny Lewald and her future husband, the writer Adolf Stahr , for whom Julius Helffts painted the vedute. The landscape painting is part of the museum Interior of Glienicke Palace , Berlin)
- View of Venice , 1854
- Doge's Palace in Venice , 1856
- San Giorgio Maggiore Monastery in Venice
- Palazzo Vecchio in Florence
literature
- Hermann Alexander Müller , Hans Wolfgang Singer : Help, Julius Eduard Wilhelm . In: General Artist Lexicon . 1st part, volume 2 : Gaab-Janinet . Frankfurt a. M., Literary Institution, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1895, p. 153 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Help Julius . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 330 .
- Eberhard Kasten: Help, Julius Eduard Wilhelm . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 71, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023176-2 , p. 319.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Foundation for the German Loss of Cultural Property: Julius Helfft , accessed on January 23, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Help Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Help, Julius Eduard Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architecture and landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1894 |
| Place of death | Berlin |