August Weber (painter)

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August Weber in the friendship gallery of individual portraits of the Düsseldorf painting students and their friends by Friedrich Boser

August Weber (full name Johann Baptist Wilhelm August Weber , born January 10, 1817 in Frankfurt am Main , † September 11, 1873 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

Life

August Weber grave at the Golzheimer Friedhof in Düsseldorf (2020)

Weber began his studies as a landscape painter with the Frankfurt painter Heinrich Rosenkranz , which he then continued in 1835 with the court painter Johann Heinrich Schilbach in Darmstadt , with whom he also went on a study trip to Switzerland. From 1836 to 1838 he was a student at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt. In autumn 1838 he moved to Düsseldorf, where he attended the academy for another year , but later trained many students himself, including Theodor Martens , Otto Odebrecht and John Robinson Tait . Due to the success of his teaching activities, he was appointed professor by the King of Prussia. In 1858 he brought Jakob Maurer and Anton Burger from Frankfurt to Düsseldorf.

In 1844 he was a co-founder of the Düsseldorf Artists Association and a member of the Malkastens . In 1863 he became an honorary member of the Düsseldorf Künstler- Liedertafel and in 1864 he was awarded the title of honorary master by the Free German High Foundation for Sciences, Arts and General Education in Frankfurt. Weber had been married since 1844; his only daughter died in 1857. From 1871 to 1872 he was forbidden to paint due to an eye condition. He then painted again, but he died on September 9, 1873 of pneumonia.

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Weber did not follow the realistic art that was predominant at the time, but saw it as a means to implement fantasies and poetic thoughts. Im was attested to restricting itself to only two geographical landscape types (southern tree landscapes and northern heaths) and to changing these in the representation significantly, beyond recognition. Along with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, he is one of two “idealists” at the Düsseldorf School.

All effects and details had to be subordinate to the idealistic overall effect, with the exception of natural phenomena such as the moonlight or the evening landscape. In the literature he is also referred to as a "moonlight weaver", probably as a demarcation from the younger Frankfurt contemporary Paul Weber .

Walter Cohen attested that August Weber's work had a “late romantic disposition” and was inspired by Salomon van Ruysdael . However, this view is not shared by other critics.

In addition to landscape paintings, Weber also created drawings and watercolors , as well as some lithographs .

Works (selection)

Summer landscape , 1846
Wooded river landscape
Italian landscape with a view of Capri , watercolor 1851

painting

Times of the day
The cycle of works "Times of the Day" was a commissioned work for the King of Prussia and consisted of four paintings (morning, noon, evening and night / moonlight landscape) in the dimensions 110 × 157 cm, was the property of the Prussian Palaces Foundation and was located from 1924 on loan from the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture . All four paintings disappeared in the chaos of war and are considered lost.

Watercolors

Illustrations

August Weber's work was severely decimated by the Second World War ; works from museums in Danzig and Königsberg are considered lost, as are some from Berlin or West Germany or from Jewish collectors. Many of the works offered on the art market are not by August Weber, but by a Swiss artist of the same name (1898–1957), another artist of the same name (1846–1928) was an entrepreneur as a pensioner on Capri.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Autograph and portrait of August Weber in: Bildnisse Düsseldorfer Künstler
  2. ↑ Cf. No. 15496 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( State Archive North Rhine-Westphalia )
  3. ^ Our time: German revue of the present, 1874, p. 561.
  4. ^ Anton Burger 1824–1905: for his 180th birthday: Haus Giersch - Museum, p. 73 2004.
  5. ↑ Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts. 7.1872, pp. 221-222. (digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de)
  6. ↑ Fr… .. Steger: Supplementary Conversation Lexicon. Supplementary sheets, Volume 9, p. 464.
  7. ^ Catalog of the painting collection of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, p. 232.
  8. ^ Catalog of the painting collection of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, 1867, p. 234.
  9. ^ The paintings of the Nationalgalerie: Directory, 1986 Nationalgalerie (East)
  10. ^ Walter Cohen : Rhenish painting in the Biedermeier period. 1926, p. 112.
personal data
SURNAME Weber, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, August Johann Baptist Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1873
Place of death Dusseldorf