Adolf Ehrhardt

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Karl Ludwig Adolf Ehrhardt (born November 21, 1813 in Berlin , † November 19, 1899 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

The muse of music

Adolf Ehrhardt attended the art academy in Berlin for a short time , but at the age of 19 he went to the art academy there in Düsseldorf in 1832 . There he was able to make his debut with his first pictures under the guidance of his teacher Wilhelm von Schadow .

In 1838 Ehrhardt settled in Dresden and became assistant to the history painter Eduard Bendemann . He had already become friends with him and his brother-in-law Julius Huebner during his studies in Düsseldorf. Together with Bendemann, Ehrhardt played a key role in decorating the royal palace , especially in various murals in the throne and ballrooms.

In 1846 Ehrhardt was awarded the title of "Professor", combined with a teaching position at the Dresden Art Academy. As such, he was inspired by works by Ludwig Richter and Ludwig Uhland , for example, when choosing a topic . In addition, he created commissioned works, such as altar paintings for churches and a series of cardboard boxes and color sketches for glass paintings for churches in Great Britain and Braunschweig, among others .

On the side, so to speak, Ehrhardt revised Pierre-Louis Bouvier's “Handbook of Oil Painting” and published “The Art of Painting” in 1885, in which he thought fundamentally about artistic training at the Academy.

Adolf Ehrhardt was married to Mathilde Brockhoff from Düsseldorf. Her sister Odila (1818–1895) was the wife of the history painter and Dresden professor Hermann Freihold Plüddemann (1809–1868), a companion of Adolf Ehrhardt.

Adolf Ehrhardt died in 1899 at the age of 86. His son Max first went to sea and had owned a machine factory in Wolfenbüttel since 1875.

Works (pictures)

Ludwig Richter, oil on canvas, 1851
  • Death of the singer Rudello
  • Rinaldo and Armida
  • Charlemagne on the corpse of his wife Fastrade
  • Ludwig the Bavarian visiting Friedrich the fair in captivity
  • Luther with the two students in the bear in Jena
  • Charles V in the monastery
  • In dire need .
  • The artist's daughters Clara and Anna .
  • Ascension of Christ , high altar picture in Crostwitz (1865).
  • Ludwig Richter in the last years of his life.

Illustrations (selection)

Works (literature)

  • Handbook of Oil Painting. For artists and art lovers, along with an appendix on conservation, regeneration and restoration . Hiersemann, Leipzig 1910 (Hiersemann's handbooks; Vol. 5)
  • The art of painting. A guide to training for the arts, along with an appendix for tutoring on the study of perspective, anatomy and proportion . Hiersemann, Leipzig 1910 (Hiersemann's handbooks; Vol. 6)

literature

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Ehrhardt, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehrhardt, Karl Ludwig Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Mittelmark , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1899
Place of death Wolfenbüttel , Duchy of Braunschweig , German Empire