Carl Hertel (painter)

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Carl Hertel , completely Karl Konrad Julius Hertel , (born October 17, 1837 in Breslau , Province of Silesia , † March 10, 1895 in Düsseldorf ), was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Hertel attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1855 to 1858 . There he was a student of Christian Köhler (2nd class, Antikensaal, 1855/1856; painting school, 2nd section, 1856), Rudolf Wiegmann (2nd class, building school), Heinrich Mücke (anatomy and proportion, 1856) and Karl Müller ( 2nd class, painting school, 2nd section, 1857/1858). From 1858 to 1864 he took private lessons from the genre painter Wilhelm Sohn .

Young Germany at school (school room during geography class) , 1874, National Gallery , Berlin

Hertel settled in Düsseldorf, where he belonged to the artists' association Malkasten from 1859 to 1870 and from 1880 to 1895 . Together with Gregor von Bochmann , he staged the tableau vivant Friedrich the Great on the Malkastenbühne in March 1887 after the battle of Torgau based on the historical picture of the same name by Adolph von Menzel .

He made frequent trips to the Netherlands and Belgium . Between 1861 and 1890 he exhibited his paintings in art centers in German-speaking countries ( Berlin 1861, 1868, 1870, 1872, 1874, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1888, Dresden 1863, 1864, 1870, 1889; Düsseldorf 1876, 1880, 1889 / 1890; Vienna 1882; Hanover 1880, 1882; Bremen 1890). In 1869 Hertel was one of the signatories of an open letter against the appointment of Hermann Wislicenus as professor of history painting and against the directorate of the secret government and school council Hermann Altgelt at the Düsseldorf Academy.

Hertel achieved particular success with the genre picture Young Germany in School , the depiction of a boys' class in geography lessons , which he created in 1874. This picture was shown in the same year at the Berlin Academic Art Exhibition, and in 1882 at the First International Art Exhibition in Vienna . The Berlin National Gallery under its director Max Jordan , who valued the picture “with a sensual and fresh invention and excellent color effect”, bought the painting in 1874. In the same year a critic of the journal Dioskuren , which was based on the national liberal literary movement Young Germany , saw the depicted scene as a political issue. He saw the school class as “a nursery school for prospective convicts as future citizens” and said that the artist wanted to express the actual punch line of the depiction and the wit of the title with such a “character of the rudest wilderness”.

Hertel repeated the popular motif several times. The Städtisches Museum Leipzig acquired one version in 1878. Another, slightly different replica is in private ownership in Berlin.

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Conrad Julius Hertel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Kunst für Alle , Volume 10, 1895, p. 220 ( Google Books ).
  2. ↑ Cf. Nos. 5442, 5447–5450, 5454 and 5455 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive ).
  3. ^ Carl Hertel, Jungdeutschland in der Schule (1874) , website in the portal germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org .
  4. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 432.
  5. ↑ Volker Frech: Living pictures and music using the example of Düsseldorf culture . Master's thesis, Diplomica Verlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-8324-3062-7 , p. 74 ( Google Books )
  6. ^ Wolfgang Hütt : Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1869 . VEB EA Seemann Buch- und Kunstverlag, Leipzig 1984, p. 250 ff., 316 footnote 319.
  7. ↑ Dioskuren , Volume 19 (1874), Issue 47, p. 382.
  8. ^ Friedrich von Boetticher , p. 513.
  9. ↑ Jung-Germany in school , website portal in the German-digitale.bibliothek .com
personal data
SURNAME Hertel, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hertel, Karl Konrad Julius; Hertel, Carl Conrad Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1895
Place of death Dusseldorf