Andreas Joseph Chandelle
Andreas Joseph Chandelle (born August 6, 1743 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 1, 1820 there ) was an official of the Imperial Post Office or the Thurn-und-Taxis-Post , pastel painter and art collector .
Origin and family
Andreas Joseph Chandelle was the son of the wealthy wine merchant Nikolaus Chandelle from Cheratte in Belgium (now part of the city of Visé ) and his wife Anna Gertrude nee. Donett, daughter of the sculptor Cornelius Andreas Donett (1683–1748) , who worked in Frankfurt . His younger brother Matthäus Georg von Chandelle was ennobled and died in 1826 as Bishop of Speyer . Georg Heinrich Chandelle, another brother (* 1748), also worked as a sculptor.
Life
From 1760, Andreas Joseph Chandelle completed his studies in philosophy at the University of Mainz . In 1762 he entered the postal service of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis , became post office official in Frankfurt in 1773 and post office secretary in 1806. In 1773 he married Anna Rosina Wiesen, daughter of the wine merchant Johann Christof Wiesen. The couple had 8 children, of whom the daughter Dorothea (1784–1866) also worked as a pastel painter.
The grandfather Cornelius Andreas Donett made him familiar with the basics of painting and Andreas Joseph Chandelle trained himself to be a pastel painter, in which profession he was very diligent and achieved great artistry. The estate still contained 112 pastel paintings made by him.
Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen wrote about him in 1790:
"Given that he is the local imperial post-officer, he only does pastel grinding for his pleasure ... and he has now made it so far in pastel that he does not only bring the most perfect equality into his portrait, but also one has such strong coloring that the portraits of the great masters have little advantage. (...) Architectur, cattle and fruit pieces of funny peasant societies and landscapes according to Schütz and various Dutch masters, he also imitates, and proves with his skillful hand what can only be done in pastel. "
In 1921 Lothar Brieger stated in his work "Das Pastell" : "The most outstanding local Frankfurt pastel painters are Andreas Joseph Chandelle and his daughter Dorothea."
In addition to his own painting, Andreas Joseph Chandelle was a well-known Frankfurt art collector and art connoisseur. In 1789, Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching referred to Chandelle's collection in the 3rd volume of his “News from collections of paintings and engravings worth seeing” . a. the famous painting “Interior of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp” by Anton Günther Gheringh and the Still Life with a Dead Rooster by Abraham Mignon from 1665 . The former hangs today in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna , the other in the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt . An extraordinary still life by the painter Jacob Marrel from Frankenthal is also listed, on which the artist has painted his reflection in a wine glass.
In 1808 Chandelle became a visual artist member of the newly founded Museumgesellschaft Frankfurt , in 1809 Grand Duke Carl Theodor von Dalberg commissioned him , together with the painter Johann Georg Schütz (1755–1813), to estimate the paintings from the secularized Dominican Church in Frankfurt .
Andreas Joseph Chandelle died in Frankfurt in 1820, his wife in 1832. Gradually, his entire collection, consisting of 296 paintings, 112 pastels by his own hand, as well as some copperplate engravings and drawings, was sold.
literature
- Philipp Friedrich Gwinner : Art and Artists in Frankfurt am Main from the 13th Century to the Opening of the Städel'schen Art Institute. Joseph Baer, Frankfurt 1862, p. 388 ( digitized version ).
- Chandelle, Andreas Joseph . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 360 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Chandelle, Andreas Joseph . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 18, Saur, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-598-22758-2 , p. 158.
- Andreas Hohm: Andreas Joseph Chandelle (1743-1820) - life and work . In: Art in Hessen and on the Middle Rhine NF 9, 2016, pp. 69–87 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Heinrich Jäck: Most important life moments of all royal. Bavarian civil and military servants of this century , Volume 4, Augsburg, 1819, p. 46 u. 44 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Website of the daughter Maria Dorothea Walpurgis Chandelle .
- ↑ Lothar Brieger: The pastel. Its history and its masters . Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1921, p. 254.
- ^ Website of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien on the painting "Interior view of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp" ; Website of the Städel Museum Frankfurt on Mignon's still life with the dead rooster .
- ^ Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching: Messages from collections of paintings and engravings worth seeing , Volume 3, Erlangen 1789, pp. 76–78 ( digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chandelle, Andreas Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German post office worker, painter and art collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1743 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1820 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |