August Hoerter
August Hoerter , also August Hoerter (born August 5, 1834 in Elberfeld , Rhine Province ; † October 23, 1906 in Karlsruhe , Grand Duchy of Baden ), was a German landscape , portrait and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
After training with Johann Richard Seel in Elberfeld (1852) and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer in Düsseldorf (until 1854), Hoerter attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy as a former Elberfeld weaver apprentice from 1854 to 1856 . There were Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Christian Köhler his teachers. He then continued his education in Carl Friedrich Lessing's studio . He followed this to Karlsruhe, where he established himself as a freelance painter in 1859. While he had toured northern Germany and the Netherlands from Düsseldorf, he made study trips from Karlsruhe in the 1860s to the Bavarian Alps, the Engadine and the Bernese Oberland, and in the 1870s to Italy, to Naples and Capri.
In Karlsruhe, where he lived for almost five decades and owned a villa with studios at Bismarckstrasse 51, he acquired the reputation of an artist's nature "edgy and full of peculiarities" and belonged to it - alongside the painters Rudolf Gleichauf , August Vischer , among others and Wilhelm Klose - the association "In the Green Tree". The writers Joseph Victor von Scheffel and Albert Herzog were among his close circle of friends . At an advanced age he married a second time.
His artistic work, for which he received medals in Metz in 1863, in Vienna in 1873 and in Karlsruhe in 1877, went through mood painting in initially dark green colors as well as dramatically lively Alpine painting , which he carried out as bright open-air work , and came to landscapes in a briskly applied impressionist style Style. Parts of his artistic estate were auctioned off at Rudolf Bangel in Frankfurt am Main in 1912.
literature
- Listener, August . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 267.
- Hoerter, August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924.
- Joseph August Beringer : August Hoerter . In: Albert Krieger , Karl Obser (Ed.): Badische Biographien . Volume 6: 1902-1911 , Heidelberg 1935, p. 719 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- August Hoerter , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- August Hoerter , auction results on the portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ↑ Horst Heidermann : Seel. Johann Richard Seel, painter in Wuppertal and draftsman for the German Michel . Thales Verlag, Essen 2003, ISBN 978-3-88908-492-7 , pp. 126, 160
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
- ↑ Albert Herzog : Your happy eyes. A journalist talks about his life . In: Hansgeorg Schmidt-Bergmann , Thomas Lindemann (ed.): Small Karlsruhe library . Info Verlag, Karlsruhe 2008, ISBN 978-3-88190-500-8 , Volume 3, p. 162 ( Google Books )
- ↑ List of good oil paintings and watercolors: mostly modern and some older masters; including parts of the artistic legacy of August Hört †, Karlsruhe and Ernst Adolf Meissner †, Munich; Auction: Tuesday, September 24, 1912 (catalog no.825) , website in the leo-bw .de portal , accessed on August 24, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoerter, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Listener, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape, portrait and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld , Rhine Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1906 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe , Grand Duchy of Baden |