Carl Gehrts

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Carl Gehrts

Carl Gehrts , also Karl Gehrts , full name Karl Heinrich Julius Gehrts (born May 11, 1853 in St. Pauli near Hamburg , † July 17, 1898 in Endenich ), was a German painter , illustrator and university professor . He taught as a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

Life

Gehrt's studio in the Villa Waldfrieden

Gehrts, son of a Hamburg master painter, was the older brother of the painters and illustrators Johannes Gehrts and Franz Gehrts . After attending the Hamburg trade school in the evenings, where he was taught by the teacher Friedrich Heimerdinger , among others , he studied with the help of scholarships from 1871 at the Weimar Art Academy under Ferdinand Brütt , Karl Gussow and Albert Baur . He followed his teacher Baur to Düsseldorf in 1876. There he worked as a history , landscape , portrait and genre painter. He was friends with Emil Zeiß . He had close artistic contact with August Wittig , who taught sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, and in later years with the illustrator Heinrich Otto . In the circle of the writer Sophie Hasenclever , the wife of the writer Richard Hasenclever and daughter Wilhelm Schadows , Gehrts found social connections, as well as in the artists' association Malkasten , of which he was a member. In 1879 he married Anna Koettgen (1855–1901), the daughter of the painter Gustav Adolf Koettgen , a landscape painter and handcraft designer who had become his private student from 1877 onwards. Gehrt's daughter Erna (1881–1957) married Hans Erich Hoesch (1881–1920), co-owner of the Eberhard Hoesch & Sons ironworks , after his death, Willy Hopp (1878–1957), manufacturer and chairman of the supervisory board of Hoesch AG .

Gehrts was a popular and busy artist until he died of a nervous disorder in 1898 at the age of 45. His private studio was in his home, the Villa Waldfrieden in the Düsseldorf suburb of Rath , which he had built by the Düsseldorf architect Carl Wilhelm Schleicher .

Gehrts died at the age of 45 from a nervous disease in the sanatorium atendenich near Bonn .

Works (selection)

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, stairwell, on the right the mural Art in the Renaissance
Wedding of Petrucchio , watercolor, 1885
The new curtain of the Malkastenbühne, illustration in the gazebo , 1894

Gehrts was best known for his decorative paintings, colored glazing, as well as book and jewelry graphics. His main work is the painting cycle celebrated by contemporaries for the upper floor of the stairwell of the old Düsseldorf art hall with the murals Art in Antiquity and Art in the Renaissance . Gehrts also worked as an illustrator for books and magazines, for example for the flying leaves and in the gazebo . The figures of brownies, gnomes, mermaids and elves, which he developed from legends and fairy tales, achieved particular popularity. Petrucchio's wedding stands out among his watercolors . On the mediation of his patron, the Hamburg export merchant Arnold Otto Meyer , he also got some orders in Hamburg and the surrounding area, B. three colored glazings for the windows of the citizenship hall in Hamburg city hall .

After the end of historicism , his work was viewed critically. In 1901, the magazine Kunst für Alle characterized him as the “last romantic among German illustrators”. In 2015, an exhibition by Dr. Ax Foundation under the title Carl Gehrts and the Düsseldorf School of Painting in Dahlem - Kronenburg part of his works as well as pictures by his contemporaries from the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

  • The arrival of the pirate Störtebecker in Hamburg , 1876
  • Count Gero's feast , 1876
  • A fool's war in the castle hall , illustration, 1879
  • Hiero's Supper , 1879–1882
  • Allegorical and ornamental wall decorations of the art exhibition and the textile and machine hall at the trade and art exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1880 , together with Karl Rudolf Sohn and Ernst and Fritz Roeber
  • Steel and iron , illustration, 1881
  • Wedding of Petrucchio , watercolor, 1885
  • Bismarck address of the artists' association “Malkasten” in Düsseldorf , 1885
  • December Festival Malkasten 1887 Düsseldorf: "A world exhibition in 1887 in the Seestadt Düsseldorf" , wood engraving 1887
  • Four wall paintings inside the Hotel-Restaurant Münker-Kaletsch (Café Central), Königsallee 32, 1887, executed by Oscar Wichtendahl and Franz Gehrts
  • Six allegorical murals on the main epochs of art history in the old Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , including Die Kunst im Alterthum and Die Kunst in der Renaissance (designed as opposing counterparts in 1887, frescoed between 1889 and 1897, damaged in 1942 by air raids in World War II, removed in 1944, then lost), there also 16 lunettes on the subject of The joys and sorrows of the maiden painting
  • Portrait of the sculptor Clemens Buscher, sign. January 6th (18) 92 CG , City Museum State Capital Düsseldorf
  • New curtain on the Malkastenbühne , 1894
  • Oriental traders at the Wartburg

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Gehrts  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: The new stage curtain in the "Malkasten" in Düsseldorf (magazine article, 1894)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Gehrts: From then to now. A wordy picture self-story. In: Art for All. Issue 7, January 1, 1888, pp. 99-104 ( uni-heidelberg.de digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Nekrolog In: At home calendar for the German Empire. Velhagen & Klasing, Berlin 1900, p. 257.
  3. ↑ Ingrid Bosch (ed.), Sabine Schroyen: Carl Gehrts 1853, Hamburg-1989 Bonn. Exhibition catalog Kunstmuseum Bonn 1994.
  4. ↑ Necrologist. In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts. NF 9, 1898, issue 32, pp. 520/521 ( uni-heidelberg.de digitized version ).
  5. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt: On the history of Düsseldorf art. Düsseldorf 1902, p. 331 ff. ( Rambow.de PDF).
  6. ↑ "The fashion fame during his lifetime considerably exceeds the appreciation of posterity." - Cf. CG Heise, 1920.
  7. ↑ The art for everyone. Volume 16, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1901, p. 176.
  8. ^ Carl Gehrts and the Düsseldorfer Malerschule , website in the portal axe-stiftung.de , accessed on July 17, 2015.
  9. ↑ Thomas Großbölting: "In the realm of work". The representation of social order in the German industrial and trade exhibitions 1790–1914. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58128-7 , p. 357.
  10. ^ Art for All , Issue 7 (January 1, 1888), p. 107 ( uni-heidelberg.de digitalisat).
  11. ↑ Gehrts, Franz . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 339 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  12. ^ Karl Bone: Düsseldorf und seine Umgebung , 1890, p. 24
  13. ^ Illustration of the wall painting by Carl Gehrt's science in Café Central , in Adolf Rosenberg : From the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Chapter III: The genre painting . EA Seemann, Leipzig, 1890, p. 50.
  14. ↑ Monika Wagner: Allegory and History. Equipment programs for public buildings in the 19th century. From the Cornelius School to Painting of the Wilhelmine Era. Tübingen Studies on Archeology and Art History, Volume 9, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 978-3-8030-1908-0 , pp. 62, 164.
personal data
SURNAME Gehrts, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gehrts, Karl; Gehrts, Karl Heinrich Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Pauli near Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1898
Place of death Endeich near Bonn