Wilhelm Camphausen

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Wilhelm Camphausen, lithograph by Adolf Dauthage , 1880
Wilhelm Camphausen, photo by Arnold Overbeck , Gebr. G. & A. Overbeck in Düsseldorf
Camphausen: Blücher's Rhine crossing at Kaub

Wilhelm Camphausen (born February 8, 1818 in Düsseldorf , † June 18, 1885 ibid) was a German military and battle painter from the Düsseldorf School . Other important representatives of battle painting, which reached its peak in the 19th century, were Camphausen's pupil and colleague Emil Hünten as well as Adolf Menzel and Georg Bleibtreu .

Life

Camphausen, born on the day his father Wilhelm Camphausen died, completed drawing training with Alfred Rethel and entered the Düsseldorf Academy in 1834 . There he became a student of Karl Ferdinand's son . His military service, which he completed with the hussars , shaped his future life; he remained associated with military painting all his life . After completing Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow's Düsseldorf master class in 1850 , he first painted historical battle scenes, which stood out due to their realistic detail design. He owes great fame to his equestrian portraits of Kaiser Wilhelm, Friedrich II. And the Great Elector . In 1859 Camphausen was appointed professor at the art academy.

Together with Gustav Jacob Canton , Henry Ritter , Rudolf Jordan , Hans Fredrik Gude , Rudolf von Normann and Frederik Nicolai Jensen , Camphausen founded the democratic and academically critical group Crignic in 1844 , whose name is composed of the initial letters of the members. This group is considered to be the forerunner of the artists' association Malkasten , which was founded in 1848 and to which he also belonged. In the paint box he took an active part, namely in the theater performances and festivals as well as the production of drafts for costumes and decorations. In 1845 Camphausen and Henry Ritter published illustrations by nineteen Düsseldorf painters in their studio in the shady side of the Düsseldorf painters, along with shortened views of their last achievements .

Camphausen took part as an army painter in the Franco-German War in 1870/71. One of his students was the battle painter Hermann de Boor , another Emil Hünten , with whom he later collaborated as a collegiate.

The city council of Cologne decided in 1881 that the historical procession on the city's history , which had taken place at the end of the Cologne cathedral building in October 1880 and had been designed by Camphausen and Theodor Rocholl , as a mural with a total length of 53 meters in Gürzenich for posterity receive. Wilhelm Camphausen, Wilhelm Beckmann , Fritz Roeber and Ernst Roeber , Albert Baur and Adolf Schmitz created the designs and painted the Gürzenich Festsaal with the 53 meter long frieze. In 1896 Camphausen completed, among other things, the painting in the hall of fame of the Berlin armory as a national monument on behalf of the Prussian government.

family

Grave stone of the parents in the northern part of the Golzheim cemetery (2019)

Camphausen's parents were Wilhelm (* September 16, 1781; † February 8, 1818) and Elise (* April 8, 1790; † December 7, 1869) Camphausen, née von Ammon , sister of the lawyer Friedrich Ferdinand von Ammon . Wilhelm Camphausen was married since 1844 to Antonie Gabriele Charlotte Niemeyer (1824-1893), daughter of the physician Carl Eduard Niemeyer (1792-1838), sister of the royal Württemberg physician Felix von Niemeyer and granddaughter of the theologian and educational politician August Hermann Niemeyer . Her sister Marianne Wilhelmine Niemeyer-Immermann-Wolff (1819–1886) was married to the writer Carl Leberecht Immermann . Wilhelm Camphausen lived with his family in Jägerhofstrasse 9, which was his property and where he also died. On May 14, 1848 their daughter Elise Anna was born, who later married the painter Ferdinand Hoppe ; her son Curt Hoppe-Camphausen also became a painter. The son Felix Camphausen (1854-1910) attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1872 to 1873, where he was a pupil of Andreas Müller's elementary class and studied art history with Wilhelm Roßmann .

Works

  • Prince Eugene near Belgrade (1842) Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne
  • Godfrey of Bouillon at the Battle of Ascalon (1845)
  • Cromwell's Horsemen on Outpost (1846), Nationalgalerie Berlin (loss of war)
  • Costume designs for the paint box redoubt “Cinderella’s Wedding” (1852), Theater Museum Düsseldorf
  • Blücher's Rhine crossing near Kaub (1860), National Gallery Berlin
  • Greetings from Blucher and Wellington after the Battle of Belle Alliance (1862)
  • For the last festival of the "Malkasten" in the old club, Ratingerstraße No. 3 . Voss, Düsseldorf 1865 ( digitized version )
  • Storming the Düppeler Schanze (1867)
  • Commemorative speech at the death celebration for Carl Sohn: in the Königl's gallery room. Art Academy in Düsseldorf, December 15, 1867; a memorial sheet on the grave of his old teacher and friend . Voss, Düsseldorf 1867 ( digitized version )
  • The storming of Alsen by the Prussians (crossing to Alsen) (1870)
  • Speech for the twenty-five year foundation festival of the artists' association 'Malkasten' on July 9, 1873 . - Düsseldorf: Voss, 1873. Digitized edition
  • Frederick the Great on Horseback (1871), Museum Kunstpalast
  • Napoleon III and Bismarck on the way to Wilhelm I on the morning after the Battle of Sedan (1877)
  • Götz von Berlichingen in the Peasants' War (1878)
  • Frederick II after the Battle of Kolin (Collin) (1878) (see illustration there)
  • Prince Otto von Bismarck during the war of 1870/71
  • Silesia pays homage to Frederick the Great 174 (1896), Hall of Fame Berlin (wall painting Loss of War)

Illustrations (selection)

Digitized editions of the University and State Library Düsseldorf :

  • 1870 and 1871. Two years of German heroism / by Gustav Höcker. With 114 illustrations based on original drawings by W. Camphausen, C. Horn, Chr. Sell a. A. and 12 maps and plans. - Glogau: Flemming. - 1872. - [1] p., IV, 392 p., [6] p.: Numerous Ill., Kt. Digitized edition
  • In: Album of German Art and Poetry. With woodcuts based on the artist's original drawings, made by R. Brend'amour. Edited by Friedrich Bodenstedt. - Berlin: Grote, 1867. Digitized edition
  • In: Arabesques / by Gustav zu Putlitz. Illustrated by Wilhelm Camphausen. - Berlin: Duncker, 1854, Vol. 1. Digitized edition
  • In: Aquarelle Dusseldorf artists: dedicated to the art-loving women. - Düsseldorf: Arnz & Comp. , 1861. English edition: Aquarels of Düsseldorf artists. - Düsseldorf: Arnz & Comp., 1852. Digitized German edition Digitized English edition
  • In: German seals with marginal drawings by German artists. - Düsseldorf: Buddeus, (volumes 1–2) 1843. Digitized edition
  • Doering, August. German core songs from the French wars. - Berlin: Grote, 1871. Digitized edition
  • In: German proverbs and speeches in pictures and poems. - Düsseldorf: Arnz & Comp., 1852. Digitized edition
  • In: Eichrodt, Ludwig. Deutsches Knabenbuch: a hundred characters in words and pictures. - Lahr: Schauenburg, 1864. Digitized edition
  • In: Düsseldorf picture portfolio: original drawings. - Berlin: Grote, 1866. Digitized edition
  • In: Howitt, Mary Botham . The Dusseldorf artist's album. - Dusseldorf: Arnz & Comp., 1854. Digitized edition
  • In: Düsseldorfer Lieder-Album: 6 songs with piano accompaniment. - Düsseldorf: Arnz & Comp., 1851. Digitized edition
  • In: Endrulat, Bernhard: An imperial festival in the "Malkasten" in Düsseldorf: and 11 original woodcut drawings. - Düsseldorf: Voss, 1878. Digitized edition
  • In: Bund, Ludwig (ed.). Lieder der Heimath: A collection of the most exquisite poems in the picture decorations of German art. - Düsseldorf: Breidenbach, 1868. Digitized edition
  • In: Fairy tales and legends for young and old. - Düsseldorf: Arnz & Comp .: Voß, 1857, volume 1. Digitized edition
  • Camphausen, Wilhelm: A painter on the war field. Illustrated diary. - Bielefeld (inter alia): Velhagen & Klasing, 1913. Digitized edition
  • Wurzbach, Constantin von . The emperor's page: a poem of loyalty. - Düsseldorf: Arnz & Comp., 1854. Digitized edition
  • In: Diethoff, E. Vom Rhein. Pictures and stories from old and new times. - Leipzig: Payne, 1871. Digitized edition
  • Washington Irving. Selection from his writings. Illustrated by Henry Ritter and Wilhelm Camphausen. - Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1856. Digitized edition
  • In: Christmas album. - Düsseldorf: Arnz & Comp., 1853. Digitized edition
  • Costumes from the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as from the Middle Ages . Digitized edition

literature

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  1. ↑ Alwin Schultz: Art and Art History: Painting and verifältierenden Künste, p. 109, 1890.
  2. ^ Bettina Baumgärtel : The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international charisma . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819-1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 31.
  3. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on April 23, 2017.
  4. ^ Claus Hermann de Boor: In the spring of 1869 Hermann de Boor went to Düsseldorf. Here he became a private student of the history painter Wilhelm Camphausen (1818-1885), in whose house he also got an apartment and a studio. , on deboor.de, accessed on April 23, 2017.
  5. ↑ »D'R ZOCH KÜTT« , on museenkoeln.de, accessed on April 23, 2017.
  6. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel : Chronicle of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule , dates in Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule International , p. 371 and p. 372 (PDF) , on smkp.de, accessed on April 23, 2017.
  7. ^ Ernst Herbst: collected texts by and about Immermann, the Friends of the CLI (1983–1990) and the beginnings of the Immermann Society: city, country and world-famous ancestors of Marianne Immermann, née Niemeyer
  8. ^ Sights , where Professor Wilhelm Camphausen died, Jägerhofstrasse 9 , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1894.
  9. ↑ See http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/bildzeug/qtvr/DHM/n/BuZKopie/raum_23.03.htm
  10. ↑ See http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/bildzeug/qtvr/DHM/n/BuZKopie/raum_23.09.htm

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personal data
SURNAME Camphausen, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military and battle painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1885
Place of death Dusseldorf