Adolph Richter (painter)
Adolph Heinrich Richter , also known as Richter von Thorn , also Adolf Richter (* July 12, 1812 in Thorn , Duchy of Warsaw , † November 23, 1852 in Düsseldorf , Rhine Province ), was a German genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Richter, son of Gottlieb Friedrich Richter (* 1781 in Wurzen ) and his wife Dorothea Henrietta, née Degenkolb (* 1791 in Thorn), studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1835 to 1843 . In 1836 he appeared with the painting Hermann and Dorothea , a pictorial implementation of the epic epic by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . However, literary material did not remain his subject. As a genre painter, he devoted himself to depicting bourgeois and rural scenes in the Rhineland , especially the life of the winegrowers on the Ahr and Rhine . A special feature of his work is that he addressed pauperism and the social question in the late romantic scenes of his pictures . Richter lived in Düsseldorf until his death and was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . He married Bertha Schmidt from Mainz (* 1819). The couple had five children, including their son Hermann Richter (1844–1926), who was a Protestant pastor in Mülheim an der Ruhr from 1872 to 1908 .
literature
- Judge, Adolf. In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume II, Dresden 1898, p. 404 f.
Web links
- Adolf Heinrich Richter , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Adolf Heinrich Richter , auction results on the portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolph Richter , website in the myheritage.de portal , accessed on March 6, 2017
- ^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 141, no. 131 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on March 6, 2017
- ^ Adolph Heinrich Richter (von Thorn) , genealogical data sheet in the portal heidermanns.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Judge, Adolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richter, Adolph Heinrich (full name); Thorn, judge of; Judge, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thorn , Duchy of Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1852 |
| Place of death | Düsseldorf , Rhine Province |