August Noack

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Self-portrait around 1848

Christian Carl August Noack (born September 27, 1822 in Bessungen ; † November 12, 1905 in Darmstadt ) was a German painter who stood out primarily as a portraitist and history painter .

Noack created over a thousand portraits , in particular of officials and people from royal houses, most of which are now in private hands, but also in public collections. Another focus of his work was landscape painting . His inclination was also “compositions of biblical objects” and Christian history pictures .

Some of his pictures, drawings, letters, texts, lectures and extensive biographical material are still in Evangelical Lutheran churches today, insofar as they were undestroyed in wars. B. in St. Martin, Pfungstadt , in the Protestant town church Bad Wimpfen , in the Darmstadt city archive , in the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt or in private ownership, z. B. the picture of Paul before the council .

childhood

Noack was born as the third of six children of the grand ducal Hessian upper consistorial registrar Heinrich Ludwig Noack (1796-1854) and his wife Sofia Christiane Werner (1795-1854), daughter of the Darmstadt silversmith and court jeweler Werner. The Noacks family came from Lausitz and had lived in Darmstadt-Bessungen since 1770 . From 1836, Noack was one of the first students at the newly founded Higher Trade School (later the Polytechnic and Technical University of Darmstadt ). His artistic training began in 1837 at the age of 15 with the Darmstadt landscape painter August Lucas .

Studies and stations

From 1839 to 1842 he studied as a student of Wilhelm von Schadow , Carl Ferdinand Sohn and Carl Friedrich Lessing at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Between 1843 and 1846 he worked as a portrait painter in Kitzingen and Würzburg , where he founded studios with the painter Richard Freytag . From 1846 to 1851 he traveled and lived in Munich and Salzburg . At that time he made friends with Paul Weber , whom he knew from studying with Lucas.

In 1849 he studied in Antwerp . In 1855 he was appointed grand ducal court painter in Darmstadt . This year traveled to Italy for a few months. In December 1855 he married Leontine Frobenius (1827–1900), whom he had met in Kitzingen in 1844 . This marriage resulted in four children (including the architect and member of the state parliament August ), and the family also had two foster children. In 1868 he traveled to Italy a second time to study. In 1870 he built his artist villa in Darmstadt in an “Italian style”.

In 1872 Noack was appointed full professor for drawing and painting at the Polytechnic School founded in 1868 (today Technical University of Darmstadt ). He remained in this position until March 31, 1901.

August Noack was buried in the old cemetery in Darmstadt (grave site: II K 35).

Works

literature

  • Barbara Bott: Paintings by Hessian painters of the 19th century in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (inventory catalog) , Darmstadt 2003
  • Adolf Beyer: Darmstadt's art, culture and artists , CW Leske Verlag, Darmstadt 1955

Web links

Commons : August Noack  - collection of images, videos and audio files