Albert Wirth (painter)

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Albert Wirth (portrayed by Lovis Corinth, 1884)

Johann Albert Wirth (born January 8, 1848 in Biberach an der Riss ; † January 31, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German painter.

Life

Albert Wirth was born in Biberach an der Riss in 1848 as the son of the bookbinder and paper merchant Jakob Konrad Wirth and his wife Marie Sabine Keller. As a volunteer in the 2nd Württemberg Jäger Battalion , he experienced the Franco-German War in 1870/71, which he later depicted in numerous drawings and paintings.

After studying at the Stuttgart Art School (1871/73), he worked as a decorative and stage painter in Vienna, Berlin, Karlsruhe, Rome (1875) and Schwerin. In 1878 he founded the arts and crafts studio Wirth & Bay (decorative painter) in Hamburg with his compatriot from Württemberg, Albert Bay († 1927 ) . Well-known artists such as Paul Kayser (painter, 1869–1942) and Arthur Illies (painter and graphic artist, 1870–1952) also learned here later . In 1884 Albert Wirth was portrayed by the then hardly known artist Lovis Corinth . In 1887 he married the merchant's daughter Henriette " Henny " Plewe in Hamburg , with whom he had a daughter.

From 1889 until his death, Wirth lived in Berlin's Schöneberger Zietenstrasse at the Twelve Apostles Church , which he also captured in some of his numerous cityscapes. From October 1, 1895, he worked as a teacher of painting technology in a class newly founded by Anton von Werner at the College of Fine Arts , a teaching institution within the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 1909 he was given the title of professor there, and since then he has also called himself "Albertus". Albert Wirth died in Berlin in 1923.

Albert Wirth had been a member of the Association for Hamburg History since 1888 , of the Association for the History of Berlin since 1911 and of the Herold since 1915 . Association for Heraldry, Genealogy and Related Sciences in Berlin . He was also a member of the Freemasons' Association since 1881 and of the Berlin Freemason Lodge Friedrich Wilhelm zur Morgenröthe since 1897 . His historical interest is also shown in the offer made in 1916 to join the Württemberg Commission for State History.

Works

Visual arts

Works by Albert Wirth can be found today primarily in the Museum of Hamburg History and the Braith Mali Museum in Biberach an der Riss, reproductions of drawings and pictures from the war in 1870/71 and 1914/18 also in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives, Dept. . Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart .

Fonts
  • Something about decorative arts. In: Illustrated craft magazine for interior decoration. Vol. 7 (1896), issue 8, p. 132 [from: Die Kunst-Halle , Berlin].
  • The technique of wall painting. In: Illustrated craft magazine for interior decoration. Vol. 10 (1899), Issue 1, pp. 14-16.
  • The Württemberger before Paris 1870. Pictures and episodes from the first and second battles at Villiers and the battle at Mont Mesley are shown. by Prof. Albertus Wirth. K. Ad. Emil Müller undated [1910].
  • Paul Dorsch: Another Swabian book. Württemberg's sons in France 1870/71. New episode. Memoirs of war participants collected and edited by Paul Dorsch. With cover picture from Albertus Wirth, fellow combatant, and 3 cards from Lieutenant Colonel z. D. Karl Heberle. Verlag der Vereinsbuchhandlung, Calw and Stuttgart 1911.
  • Painting technique with a brief theory of colors for artists and art enthusiasts. Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg (various editions: 1916, 1920).

literature

  • Dressler's art manual . Second volume: The book of the living German artists, archeologists, art scholars and art writers. Visual arts. Curtius, Berlin 1920–1929.
  • Friedrich Jansa: German visual artists in words and pictures. Leipzig 1912.
  • Kay Rump (ed.): The new Rump - Lexicon of the visual artists of Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area, revised new edition of the Lexicon by Ernst Rump (1912). Neumünster 2005.
  • Wirth, Albertus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 101 .
  • Berlin watercolors. In: Communications from the Association for the History of Berlin. Volume 38 (1921), p. 51.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The matriculation books before 1931 are lost.
  2. ↑ 1886 Große Drehbahn 45, later in Dovenhof, then in Büschstrasse. 6 (later Bay & Schmidt ).
  3. ↑ Cf. Art for All. Vol. 11 (1896), p. 44. For the content of his class, cf. Adolf Wilhelm Keim: About painting technique. Leipzig 1903, ( p. 21 f. )
  4. ↑ See obituary in the Reutlinger General-Anzeiger of February 5, 1923.
  5. ↑ Cf. Theodor Schrader: The fifty-year foundation festival of the Association for Hamburg History. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History. Vol. 9 (1894), pp. 1-50. ( P. 43 )
  6. ↑ See Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, E 216 Bü 297, No. 16 .
personal data
SURNAME Wirth, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wirth, Johann Albert (full name); Wirth, Albertus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberach an der Riss
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1923
Place of death Berlin