Albert Arnz

Landscape painter Albert Arnz at the age of 53

Bertram Bernhard Albert Arnz (born January 24, 1832 in Düsseldorf ; † September 9, 1914 there ) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life and family

Arnz, son of Maria Catharina Carolina and Heinrich Arnz (1785–1854), a well-known Düsseldorf publisher and printer ( Lithographische Anstalt Arnz & Comp. ), Studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1854 to 1860 under Andreas and Oswald Achenbach . With the latter, who had become his brother-in-law by marrying Julie Arnz (1827-1896) in 1851, he traveled to Italy several times . From July 2 to October 19, 1857, he stayed in Rome . Another brother-in-law, husband of sister Marie Anna Fernandine (* 1829), was the Düsseldorf Italian painter Albert Flamm . A third brother-in-law, who married Arnz's eldest sister Marie (* 1825), was the history painter Joseph Fay . The von Arnz brothers were August (* 1813), who until his death in 1846 was the manager of the Leiden branch of Arnz & Comp. war, Carl (* 1821), also managing director at Arnz & Comp., as well as Otto (* 1823), who like Albert became a landscape painter, but maintained close contacts with the academy's realistically oriented group of artists, and finally Friedrich (* 1826), who in 1851 the sister Antonetta Josepha of the Düsseldorf portrait and genre painter Philipp Schmitz (1824-1887) married. Arnz's nephews were the animal painter Ludwig Fay , the driving sportsman Benno von Achenbach and the shipbuilding engineer Oswald Flamm . Albert Arnz was a member of the artists' association Malkasten , in whose performances of "living pictures" he participated in 1875. The address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf 1865 recorded his residence at Goltsteinstrasse 13, in the immediate vicinity of Oswald Achenbach, who lived in house number 9. His address for 1889 was at Schadowstrasse 52.

Works (selection)

View of Regenstein Castle in the Harz Mountains

Longhorn cattle returning home in the Campagna Romana , 1879

Arnz painted atmospheric landscapes in Germany, Italy and Switzerland. His pictures show the Düsseldorf School's conceptions of art, many of which are related to the painting of his teacher Oswald Achenbach, especially through an effective treatment of light and color that enhances the atmosphere.

• View of Regenstein Castle in the Harz Mountains
• Swiss landscape
• Forest landscape with a flock of sheep
• Ruins of ancient Rome , 1869
• The Colosseum
• Beach near Naples , 1871
• Longhorn cattle returning home in the Campagna Romana (evening mood) , 1879
• The Temple of Venus at Baiae on the Gulf of Naples , 1897
• Angel's Bridge in Rome with Castel Sant'Angelo and St. Peter's Basilica , 1902

literature

• Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 19 ( retrobibliothek.de ).
• Arnz, Albert. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 40 ( archive.org ).
• Arnz, Albert . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . tape 6 : Second addendum with corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1922, p. 8 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Hans Vollmer : Arnz, Albert . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 148 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Adolf Rosenberg : History of Modern Art. Volume 2: German art. Verlag FW Grunow, Leipzig 1894, p. 1.

Web links

Commons : Albert Arnz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Albert Arnz , auction results on the arcadja.com portal
• Albert Arnz (German, 1832-1914). artnet.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 69.
2. ↑ David Bernard Dearinger (ed.): Paintings and Sculptures in the Collection of the National Academy of Design. Hudson Hills Press, Manchester / Vermont 2004, ISBN 1-55595-029-9 , p. 195 ( books.google.de ).
3. ↑ State and City Library Düsseldorf (Ed.): Publications. Volume 5, Düsseldorf 1964, p. 50.
4. ^ Sabine Herder: Arnz & Comp. A lithographic institution between theater and artists. In: Bettina Bäumgärtel: 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. 284.
5. ↑ Inventory list , website in the portal malkasten.org , accessed on February 15, 2015
6. ↑ Volker Frech: Living pictures and music using the example of Düsseldorf culture. Master's thesis, diplom.de, 2001, ISBN 978-3-8324-3062-7 , p. 63 ( books.google.de ).
7. ^ Albert Arnz, Goltsteinstrasse 13 , in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf, 1865
8. ^ Albert Arnz Düsseldorf , website in the adressbuecher.genealogy.net portal , accessed on February 15, 2015
9. ↑ In 1900 the Ibach House was built at this address .
10. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century. Verlag des Kunstverein for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 212 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).