Anton Melbye

Anton Melbye 1852
portrait by Detlev Conrad Blunck

The Eddystone Lighthouse 1846

Daniel Hermann Anton Melbye (born February 13, 1818 in Copenhagen , † January 10, 1875 in Paris ) was a Danish marine painter. He was the older brother of the painters Vilhelm Melbye (1824–1882) and Fritz Melbye (1826–1869).

Life

Melbye learned the trade of ship's carpenter from 1833. Because of his poor eyesight he had to give up the job of a seaman and in 1838, like his brothers, decided to study painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen and was also a private student of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg . Even after graduation, he remained friends with Eckersberg.

After graduating, he visited many countries, including Morocco and Turkey. From 1847 to 1858 he worked in Paris , where he was influenced by Camille Corot . In Paris he received from Emperor Napoleon III. an order for a large painting. In 1855 he met Camille Pissarro through his brother Fritz and was for a time his teacher. In 1858 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Copenhagen and in 1862 a professor there. He now lived alternately there and in Hamburg and Paris.

In Hamburg and the then Danish Altona, Anton Melbye found a veritable circle of collectors and powerful patrons from the 1840s. Anton Melbye regularly took part in local art exhibitions. The exhibition catalogs of the Melbye works, which are privately owned, read like a who's who of the established upscale Hamburg and Altona society. The close German-Danish connections are reflected here in the exchange of art and culture. Melbye held the first solo exhibitions in the Hanseatic city in 1872 and 1900. Anton Melbye took up residence here from 1860 to 1871, interrupted by lengthy stays, mainly in France.

Anton Melbye also dealt with the daguerreotype , which he learned from the inventor Louis Daguerre . Some of his photos have been preserved, are stored in Paris and show a.o. a. Photos from the French Revolution.

In France he was awarded the Legion of Honor and in Denmark the Dannebrogorden . For the painting " Eddystone Lighthouse " (1846) he received the Thorvaldsen Medal .

gallery

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  Sailing ship in Gibraltar , 1851

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  Le Pont Neuf , daguerreotype , 1848

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  Nocturnal seascape

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  Seascape

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  Adriatic

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1872: Professor Melbye's charcoal drawings , Hamburg
• 1900: Anton Melbye: Exhibition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his death , Hamburg
• 2017–2018: Melbye - Painter of the Sea , Altonaer Museum , Hamburg
• 2018: Towards Distant Horizons. Anton Melbye - 200 Years , Den Hirschsprungske Samling , Copenhagen

literature

• Melbye, Daniel Herman ANTON. in the Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbachs kunstnerleksikon (Danish)
• Anton Melbye. In: The Danske Encyklopædi store . (Danish)
• Melbye, Daniel Herman Anton . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 18 : Mekaniker – Mycale . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1913, Sp. 32 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• Nekrolog DH Anton Melbye. In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts. Volume 10, Issue 21, Seemann, Leipzig (March 5, 1875) Sp. 330–331 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
• Ernst Rump : Melbye, Daniel Hermann Anton. In: Lexicon of the visual artists of Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area , Otto Bröcker & Co., Hamburg 1912, p. 86 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Ingeborg Buhl : Melby, Anton . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 353 .
• Henrik Lungagnini: Anton Melbye, a Danish marine painter in Hamburg. In: Altona Museum: Yearbook. Volume 10. 1972, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg, pp. 99–110, ISSN  0440-1417
• Regine Gerhardt: Networks: Heinrich Heine and Anton Melbye. In: Heine yearbook . Volume 49. Metzler, Stuttgart 2010, pp. 179-191
• Regine Gerhardt: Ideas and Theory: Rumohr and the young artists Adolph Vollmer and Anton Melbye. In: Alexander Bastek, Achatz von Müller: Art, cuisine and calculation: Carl Friedrich von Rumohr (1785–1843) and the discovery of cultural history . Catalog for the exhibition in the Museum Behnhaus Drägerhaus Lübeck. Imhof, Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-591-9 , 2010, pp. 152-159.
• Maike Bruhns : Melbye, Daniel Hermann Anton. In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary. Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , pp. 295-296.
• Regine Gerhardt: A “European” in Denmark: Anton Melbye and the Copenhagen art scene. In: Uwe Fleckner, Maike Steinkamp, ​​Hendrik Ziegler (eds.): The artist in foreign countries. Wandering - Migration - Exile . Gruyter, 2015 ISBN 3-05-005091-8 , pp. 107–129.
• H. Repetzky: Melby, Anton . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 89, de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-023255-4 , p. 10.
• Anja Dauschek, Regine Gerhardt u. Vanessa Hirsch (Ed.): Melbye. Painter of the sea. Catalog for the exhibition in the Altonaer Museum, Hamburg 2017/2018. Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86218-099-8 .

Web links

• Website by Regine Gerhardt, who is writing a dissertation on Melbye

Commons : Anton Melbye (painter)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Works by Anton Melbye on artnet