Albert Hertel
Albert Hertel (born April 19, 1843 in Berlin ; † February 12, 1912 there ) was a German painter .
Life
Hertel was initially a student at the art academy in his hometown. At the age of twenty Hertel went on a study trip to Rome in 1863 and stayed there for almost four years. In addition to studying the ancient masters, Hertel was primarily interested in landscape painting . He joined the painter Heinrich Dreber .
In 1867 Hertel returned to Germany and settled again in Berlin. Shortly afterwards he went to Düsseldorf . In the years 1868/1869 he was a pupil in the landscape class of Oswald Achenbach at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1875 he was appointed as a lecturer at the Berlin Art Academy and entrusted with the management of a studio for landscape painting. In 1877 Hertel put his teaching position as a royal. Prof. for landscape painting and from then on only worked as a freelance artist.
As such, he soon became one of the most important painters of the Berlin school . His artistic work includes landscape paintings - which were very often created " en plein air " - as well as still lifes and genre pieces . Also worth mentioning are his illustrations of some of the tragedies by Sophocles , a triptych of the Diarama of Bad Gastein and a cycle of six Italian landscapes with works of mercy from 1874.
In 1897 Hertel received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . In 1901/1902 Hertel submitted drafts for thirteen tempera paintings for the painting of the Imperial Staircase of the Berlin Cathedral . Nine square murals depicted the life of Jesus and four oval ceiling paintings were dedicated to biblical parables. After assessment by Kaiser Wilhelm II , the finished paintings were placed one week before the cathedral was inaugurated on February 27, 1905.
Albert Hertel died in Berlin in 1912 at the age of 68. He was buried in Cemetery IV of the Jerusalem and New Church on Bergmannstrasse . The grave has not been preserved.
literature
- Ines Hertel: The Berlin painter Albert Hertel. (1843-1912). A contribution to the art history of the 19th century . Esprint, Heidelberg 1981, ISBN 3-88326-080-0 .
- Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin : Memorial exhibition Albert Hertel, Otto Lessing, Paul Wallot . Self-published, Berlin 1913.
- Hertel, Albert . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 511.
Works (selection)
- Acqua a cetosa Civitella (1870)
- capri
- Via Flaminia near Rome (1872),
- Summer evening in front of the Brandenburg Gate (1874)
- Sabine landscape
- Still life from the studio
- Still life for a music hall (1876)
- Fish still life, motif near Scheveningen (1877)
- Approaching storm on the Genoese coast (1878, Berlin National Gallery)
- Spring in Provence (1881)
- Nordic Beach Scene (1883, National Gallery)
- Rest on the run (1885)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 146
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 291.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hertel, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1912 |
| Place of death | Berlin |