August Heinrich Niedmann

August Heinrich Niedmann (born May 3, 1826 in Braunschweig , † January 18, 1910 in Ried near Kochel am See ) was a German painter.

Life

Niedmann received his first instruction from his father Martin David Niedmann (1790 - presumably 1860), who worked as a teacher and painter of miniature portraits at the Stobwasserschen lacquerware factory in Braunschweig. He then became a student of the landscape painter and inspector of the Brunswick gallery Heinrich Brandes at the Collegium Carolinum, who referred him to the Munich Art Academy for further studies. On January 27, 1851, his entry is recorded in the register of the academy in the field of painting, which at that time was headed by the history painter Wilhelm Kaulbach . In Munich he made friends and acquaintances with the painters Friedrich Wilhelm Pfeiffer from Wolfenbüttel, Hermann Bethke (1825-1895) from Braunschweig, Wilhelm Lichtenheld (1817-1891) from Hamburg and the brothers August (1820-1904) and Franz Seidel ( 1818-1903) and Joseph Petzl from Munich. He was married to the Braunschweig pastor's daughter Wilhelmine Michlenhoff (* 1830). The marriage had four children, of whom the older son Hans became a chemist and the son Erich a painter. In 1891 August Niedmann settled in Ried near Benediktbeuern , now part of Kochel am See.

plant

Niedmann took his motifs, which he mostly localized in Bavaria and Austria, but occasionally also in Holland or East Friesland, from family and country life, including weddings, St. Nicholas evenings and Christmas presents, scenes with game shooters and dairymaid on the mountain pastures or from annual markets. In 1872 he painted A Village Genius , in which a boy draws the equestrian portrait of Emperor Wilhelm on the school blackboard. In the art trade were among other compositions like The congratulatory reception , the toast to the bride and groom , the Apple caught in the act thieves , an important letter , blind man's buff , the seventieth birthday and Fatherhood of 1886 and The Passionate hunters from 1896 offered. The Städtisches Museum in Braunschweig acquired two paintings.

literature

• Hermann Alexander Müller (Ed.): Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882 (2nd edition, corrected and supplemented by supplements, 1884).
• Friedrich Pecht : History of Munich Art in the Nineteenth Century. Munich 1888.
• Niedmann, August Heinrich. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 149 ( archive.org ).
• Hyacinth Holland , in: Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Published by Anton Bettelheim. 15th volume. Georg Reimer, Berlin 1910.
• Niedmann, August Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 463 .
• Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art . Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 3. Munich 1982.
• Bergit Korschan-Kuhle: Niedmann, August Heinrich. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 441 .
• Emanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. 4th edition, Volume 10, 1999.
• Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , p. 307.

Web links

Commons : August Heinrich Niedmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• matrikel.adbk.de Entry in the matriculation database of the Munich Art Academy