Arthur Nikutowski

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Johann Arthur Severin Nikutowski (born January 9, 1830 in Salwarschienen , Prussian Eylau district (Polish: Kanie Iławieckie) in East Prussia , † 1888 in Düsseldorf ) was a genre, horse and battle painter of Polish descent. He belongs to the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

Life

Nikutowski began his painting studies in Königsberg , continued it at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Carl Friedrich Lessing , followed him to Karlsruhe in 1859 and finally settled in Düsseldorf in 1865. His first works were small-format genre pictures, later he mainly created large battle pictures, including episodes from the Polish January uprising in 1863. From 1880 until his death in 1888 he was a teacher of anatomy at the Düsseldorf Academy. This prompted him to study comparative anatomy and proportion theory, which were not published.

His passion was the representation of dynamic groups of riders and horses, which he embeds in tense actions and endows them with a pathos and verve that is only known from Russian painting.

His son Erich (1872–1921) also became a painter and devoted himself mainly to landscape painting.

Works (selection)

In the painting Wilde Fahrt (1855) he allows his Polish origins to flow and illustrates with vivid expressiveness the flight of the Poles from the Prussians. The snowy landscape in white and gray tones creates a magnetizing contrast to the dynamic composition of the fleeing group on the diagonal, whose excited expressiveness of people and horses seems to sweep the viewer away.

Livestock trading on a wintry market square (1881) impresses not only with its many figures, but also with the pathos of each individual person, whose posture and facial expressions reflect the cold winter and the dampness of the mass exhalations. It achieved a record price at a private auction in 2009.

  • Wilde Fahrt - Wild Trip (1855), privately owned
  • Crossing over the Beresina (1858), Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
  • Russian border guards in pursuit of Polish smugglers (1861)
  • The last hours of the Battle of Leipzig, 1813 (1863), German Historical Museum
  • Country folk burying their child (1870)
  • Funeral of a Polish freedom fighter (1872)
  • Village fire in winter (1877)
  • Cattle trade on a wintry market square (1881)
  • In front of a train station (1886), City Museum, State Capital Düsseldorf

  • Wild Trip

  • Bandits

  • The coach

  • Cattle trade

  • Cheerful reception

literature

Web links

Commons : Artur Nikutowski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt: On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 233 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Cattle market on the market square of Preußisch-Eylau on van-ham.com, accessed on October 1, 2015
  3. ↑ The Last Hours of the Battle of Leipzig, 1813 on bildindex.de, accessed on October 1, 2015
  4. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 2, p. 438 (Catalog No. 373)
personal data
SURNAME Nikutowski, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nikutowski, Johann Arthur Severin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Salwar rails , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 1888
Place of death Dusseldorf