Alfred Bournye

Alfred Bournye (* 1825 in Düsseldorf ; † after 1858) was a German history and portrait painter and lithographer of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Stephanie Princess of Hohenzollern

Alfred Bournye was the son of the Düsseldorf medical councilor Carl Leopold Bournye (1787-1865), head of the Departmental Insane Asylum in Düsseldorf , and his wife Rudolphine Henriette Ernestine Sophie Amalie von Byern (1792-1837) and brother of the later district administrator Gustav Bournye . He attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1838 to 1845. Rudolf Wiegmann , Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Academy Director Wilhelm von Schadow were his teachers there. In the 1840s he appeared with historical paintings, which he exhibited in the Kunstverein for the Rhineland and Westphalia or in the Kölnischer Kunstverein . Later he made a name for himself primarily as a lithographer, for which he had been trained in France. In 1859 he was still registered in the same house as his father at Alleestraße 13 in Düsseldorf.

Works (selection)

• Duke Alba at the execution of Counts Egmont and Hoorn , 1844
• Eleonora, wife of King Henry II, gives her rival Rosamunde the choice of dying by poison or by dagger , 1845
• Thisbe, listening on the wall , 1847
• A reclining odalisque , 1847

literature

• Rudolf Wiegmann : The Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Their history, furnishings and effectiveness and the Düsseldorf artists . Buddeus'sche Buch- und Kunsthandlung, Düsseldorf 1856, p. 248 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Bournye, Alfred . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1891, Volume 1, p. 125.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF ; 2.5 MB)
2. ^ Rudolfine Henriette Ernestine Sophie Amalie von Byern , genealogical data sheet in the portal gedbas.genealogy.net
3. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses. The nobility born in Germany (primeval nobility) . Ninth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1908, p. 144 ( digitized version )
4. ^ Düsseldorfer Zeitung , edition of December 27, 1837 ( digitized version )
5. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
6. ↑ Düsseldorfer Journal and Kreis-Blatt , issue No. 214 of September 9, 1854 ( digitized version )
7. ^ Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for the year 1859 . New episode, first year, second part, p. 2 ( digitized version )