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Amand Joseph Pelz , also Amandus Peltz (born September 11, 1812 in Alt-Weistritz near Habelschwerdt , County Glatz , Lower Silesia ; † May 14, 1841 in Düsseldorf ), was a German portrait and landscape painter of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Pelz was born as the son of the gardener and canvas bleacher Anton Pelz. After attending elementary and city school, he went to Glatz grammar school from 1826 to 1830 . He showed a talent for drawing at an early age. From 1830 to 1831 Pelz visited the studio of Johann H. Chr. König (1777–1867) at the Royal Art School in Breslau , where he made friends with Raphael Schall and Philipp Hoyoll . The three friends stayed together until his death in 1841. First exhibitions of drawings brought the then 19-year-old excellent reviews. In the spring of 1833, Pelz, Schall and Hoyoll moved to the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin , where Adolph Menzel , who was friends with Schall, was studying. That same year, fur accepted an invitation of his patron of the arts -minded Prince Wilhelm Malte of Putbus to his castle on Ruegen . During a maritime excursion to visit the island and its coastal landscapes, the ship capsized, while Pelz barely escaped death by drowning. In 1834 the painter trio moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where they were taught together in the class of the history and portrait painter Karl Ferdinand Sohn . In 1835 the three painters portrayed each other in the friendship and studio picture Three Silesian Painters . A broken coat of arms in the monogram of Pelz (top left in the picture) could already indicate that he was critically ill with consumption , which he was supposed to succumb to in May 1841. In 1836 Pelz visited his parents in Silesia again, portraying them as well as his highly esteemed pastor, the great dean Joseph Knauer . In 1837 he returned to Düsseldorf, where he completed his studies in 1839, after deepening landscape painting with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer from 1836 . The return to his Silesian homeland planned for autumn 1841 and a subsequent study trip to Italy thwarted his early death.

Works (selection)

• Together with Philipp Hoyoll and Raphael Schall: Three Silesian painters. Friendship and studio picture of Philipp Hoyoll (left in front of the easel, painted by Schall), Amand Pelz (in the middle with a painter's smock and palette, painted by Hoyoll) and Raphael Schall (right with a pencil, painted by Pelz), 1835, National Gallery Berlin
• Self-portrait with his friend Raphael Schall , pencil drawing
• Winter landscape
• Hikers at the waterfall in rocky landscape
• Portrait of the great dean and prelate Dr. Joseph Knauer zu Habelschwerdt , 1836
• Portrait of the Parents , 1837

literature

• Amand Joseph Fur . In: Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (Ed.): New Nekrolog der Deutschen . Nineteenth year, 1841, Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1843, pp. 521–524.
• Amandus (Amand) fur (also Peltz) . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 343.
• Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its International Radiance 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 437.

Web links

• Amand Josef Pelz , website in the artsalesindex.artinfo.com portal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Amand Joseph Pelz . In: Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (Ed.): New Nekrolog der Deutschen . Nineteenth year, 1841, Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1843, pp. 521–524 ( Google Books )
2. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel: Three Silesian Painters, 1835. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its International Radiance 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 2, p. 53 (Catalog No. 29)
3. ↑ Data sheet Three Silesian Painters , accessed on the portal bildindex.de on April 3, 2015.
4. ^ Pelz, Amand (picture card)  in the German Digital Library , accessed on April 3, 2015