Bernhard Mannfeld

Professor Bernhard Mannfeld, painting by Wilhelm Trübner

Gendarmenmarkt. Etching by Bernhard Mannfeld 1891

Karl Julius Bernhard Mannfeld (born March 6, 1848 in Dresden , † March 29, 1925 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Mannfeld spent his youth in Meissen . As an etcher and painter, he was a student of the painter Otto Georgi. One of his students was Ottilie Roederstein . He worked as a teacher and professor of etching at the Städel in Frankfurt am Main from 1895 . From 1895 he was also director of the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule.

Mannfeld was a representative of the art of etching ( gravure printing ) using copper plate and made landscape and city etchings, but mainly architectural views. In 1886 he had an exhibition of his etchings in the Berlin National Gallery , curated by Lionel von Donop . Drawings by him were in museums in Leipzig , Breslau and Berlin.

A street in Frankfurt am Main was named after him: "Bernard-Mannfeld-Weg" in the Sachsenhausen district. He was also buried in the cemetery in Sachsenhausen, which is now considered an honorary grave. The following family still lives partly in Frankfurt and owns some of his works. Some of his students tried to copy Bernhard Mannfeld and then sell the works, which is why it is often difficult to clearly identify some works.

Porta Nigra in Trier, etching by Bernhard Mannfeld 1895

Illustration by Bernhard Mannfeld: Choir ruins of the Heisterbach monastery

His works include u. a. Long Market in Gdansk (1900), the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, Porta Nigra in Trier, The Monastery Heisterbach , From the Rhine (15 etchings 1885), several hundred graphics Silesian monuments Aachen Cathedral , Albrechtsburg Meissen , The Cathedral Limburg , The Romans to Frankfurt am Main , view of the Main in Frankfurt am Main and Frankfurt am Main “The three landmarks: Main bridge , Brückegiggel , Dom ” and Weinmarkt / Fahrtor 1895, (artist) calendar of the eraser class at the Städel 1896.

literature

• Berhard Mannfeld in: Meyers Konversationslexikon, Vol. 18: Annual Supplement 1890-1891, p. 595
• August Wiederspahn, Helmut Bode: Die Kronberger Malerkolonie , Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-7829-0183-5
• Heinrich Weizsäcker, Albert Desoff: Art and Artists in Frankfurt in the 19th Century , Frankfurt am Main 1909
• Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 . P. 13
• Hans-Otto Schembs : Frankfurt as painters saw it , Weidlich, Würzburg 1982, ISBN 3-8035-1298-0
• Börsenblatt for the German book trade, March 1908 (catalog raisonné Mannfeld)

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Mannfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Bernhard Mannfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mannfeld, Karl Julius Bernhard. Hessian biography. (As of March 29, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Mannfeld, Bernhard in the Frankfurt dictionary of persons