Carl Julius Milde

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Carl Julius Milde
Erwin Speckter: The artist and his friends: (from left to right: Erwin Speckter , Carl Julius Milde, Otto Speckter , Friedrich Nehrlich (Nerly))

Carl Julius Milde (born February 16, 1803 in Hamburg , † November 19, 1875 in Lübeck ) was a German painter and draftsman. He worked as a painter , medical illustrator, conservator and restorer and as a drawing teacher at the Katharineum in Lübeck .

Carl Julius Milde (portrait of Erwin Speckter )

Life

After studying art in Dresden and Munich , Milde first turned to portraiture, but in 1838 accepted a position as a drawing teacher at Lübeck's Katharineum and since then has worked as a documentator in the Hanseatic city. Based on the ideas of the art historian Carl Friedrich von Rumohr, he was particularly interested in the rescue and restoration of medieval furnishings in churches and the revival of glass painting .

He hid and secured the art treasures of the Lübeck Castle Monastery and thus laid the foundation for today's important collection of medieval art in the St. Anne's Museum . He restored the windows of the castle church , which were built into Lübeck's Marienkirche from 1840 . During the cleaning of the Lübeck Dance of Death in 1852, Milde made views that went on the market as lithographs in 1866 .

Milde was a contemporary of Georg Friedrich Lisch and was closely connected to him mainly because of the same interests. Both were particularly fond of the historical sciences, with Milde developing a special relationship with sphragistics (seal studies) and heraldry . Milde's name appears twenty times in Lisch's complete list of his bequeathed writings and letters, which shows a closer relationship. Lisch had made use of Milde's expertise for decades.

Milde also helped Lisch with extensive research into 25 of 42 noble coats of arms in the choir windows from the second half of the 15th century in connection with the restoration of the Dargun monastery church from 1859 to 1860. The stained glass was destroyed when the church burned on April 30, 1945.

Lisch brokered further orders for him in Mecklenburg. Milde was asked, for the design of the throne room in Schwerin Castle, to put the 40 city and regional coats of arms, which Lisch laboriously identified, into the appropriate heraldic form. Milde then created the templates, which were then artistically implemented by the Schwerin painter Trilk.

Large west window in Cologne Cathedral

Milde also created a permanent place in the art landscape of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania through his work in the churches of Schlemmin and Semlow . After the church in Semlow, which was restored in 1856, Milde was commissioned by the church patron, Count Ulrich von Behr-Negendank, with the complete repainting. The work carried out from 1861 to 1863 also included the ceiling, the galleries, the baptism of 1576 and the glass windows. The colored design canons for the windows are now kept in the Milde estate in the St. Annen Museum in Lübeck. In Schlemmin he created the wall and glass paintings in the burial chapel for Count zu Stollberg from 1863 to 1864. The glass painting windows were executed by the Lübeck glazier Johann Jacob Achelius .

Mild work was so praised that the Prussian crown prince couple Friedrich and Victoria visited the Semlower church and commissioned Milde with the design and execution of the west window they donated for the Cologne Cathedral . The window, a 22 m high glass painting , was made in the glass workshop of Johann Jacob Achelius in Lübeck from 1865–1870; it was used in 1877, two years after Milde's death. Before the bombing, the Milde window was removed and stored; after the Second World War , another artist was commissioned for the west window. The Milde window was only reinstalled in its old location in 1993 on the instructions of master builder Arnold Wolff .

Alongside Ernst Gillmeister, Carl Julius Milde was one of the outstanding individual personalities in the history of glass painting in northern Germany in the 19th century. He was also a founding member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . The painter Adolf Theodor Franck was his nephew.

memory

The Mildestieg in the Hamburg district of Barmbek-Nord is named after Milde .

In 1950, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the museums in Lübeck , the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities donated the Carl Julius Milde Medal , which, however, was only awarded once to members of the society who were deserving of the museums, namely to Ludwig Benick , Carl Georg Heise , Johannes Klöcking , Karl Petersen, Ernst Petrick, Hans Saager, Ernst Schermer, Hermann G. Stolterfoht, Karl Strunck and Erna Suadicani.

Works

Fragment of the drawing of the dance of death by Milde
  • Illustrations for Gustav Biedermann Günther : Surgical anatomy in illustrations
    • Surgical muscle theory in illustrations. Hamburg, JA Meißner, 1838
    • The wrist in mechanical, anatomical and surgical relationships. With drawings by Julius Milde. 1841
    • The surgical bone theory, with illustrations. Hamburg, Meissner 1844
  • Monuments of fine arts in Lübeck , drawn and edited by C. J. Milde and accompanied by an explanatory historical text by Ernst Deecke , booklets I and II, Lübeck, self-published 1843–1847
  • Text part of issue 1, 1843 Grave slabs engraved in bronze, digitized , Austrian National Library
  • Text part 2, 1847 glass paintings and brick floors digitized , Austrian National Library
  • Lübeck ABC , 26 etchings, drawn and edited by C. J. Milde, etched by E. Bollmann, Lübeck, Selbstverlag, 1857 (2nd edition Grautoff, 1873; 3rd edition B. Nöhring, 1926).
  • The dance of death in the Marienkirche in Lübeck , drawn by C. J. Milde and with text by Wilhelm Mantels , Lübeck 1866.
  • From Lübeck's old days , by C. J. Milde, Verlag Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1908. The content of the work is the Lübeck ABC , published in 1857, with a new layout . Anecdotes by Otto Anthes were added to it in later editions .

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

chronologically

  • Alexander Bastek: Irr-real. Carl Julius Milde, the portrait and psychiatry , Petersberg: Imhof 2019, ISBN 978-3-7319-0834-0 .
  • Jan Zimmermann : Old Lübeck smiles so honestly in your face. Carl Julius Milde and his "Lübeck ABC". Lübeck 2007.
  • Gerhard Ahrens: Carl Julius Mildes work for the Lübeck history society. In: Zeitschrift des Verein für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Volume 83, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck, 2003, pp. 271–278.
  • The Cologne Cathedral pp. 14-15, Arnold Wolff (1995), Greven Verlag Köln GmbH, ISBN 978-37743-0284-6
  • Suzanne Grosskopf: Milde, Carl Julius. In: Lübeck CVs , ed. von Alken Bruns, Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1993, ISBN 3-529-02729-4 , pp. 261-265.
  • Suzanne Grosskopf-Knaack: Carl Julius Milde (1803-1875). Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 1988.
  • Gerhard Gerkens : One should appreciate the beautiful. Carl Julius Milde, Lübeck's first conservationist, draws from medieval art. Lübeck 1987 (exhibition catalog).
  • Jenns Eric Howaldt: Carl Julius Milde and the discovery of medieval Lübeck. In: Art and Culture of Lübeck in the 19th Century. Booklets on art a. Cultural history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, volume 4th ed .: Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 1981 (325 pp.), Pp. 287–289.
  • Harald Richert: The artist and art historian Carl Julius Milde (February 16, 1803 - November 19, 1875). In: Nordelbingen . Contributions to the history of art and culture , Vol. 46 (1977), pp. 49-61.
  • Alfred Lichtwark : Hamburg essays , Janssen, Hamburg, 1917, p. 93ff .: Julius Milde as a natural scientist , digitized edition of the Hamburg State and University Library.
  • Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg : Carl Julius Milde , Gebrüder Borchers, Lübeck 1908 (2nd edition 1920).
  • Alfred Lichtwark : Das Bildnis in Hamburg , vol. II, Druckerei A.-G., Hamburg, 1898, p. 150 ff. ( Online )
  • Andreas Ludwig Jakob Michelsen:  Mild, Carl Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 737-741.

Web links

Commons : Carl Julius Milde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Carl Julius Milde  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Ende : ... no better support than the history painter Milde in Lübeck. Friedrich Lisch, Carl Julius Milde and the restoration of Mecklenburg cultural assets. In: SVZ, Mecklenburg-Magazin (2003) No. 9 pp. 11-12.
  2. ↑ Mecklenburgisches Jahrbuch MJB 26 (1861) Friedrich Lisch : The glass paintings in the church at Dargun. P. 224.
  3. ↑ Ludwig Fromm: Chronicle of the capital and residence city Schwerin: with use of the latest research. Schwerin: von Oertzen 1862, p. 457
  4. ^ Horst Ende: Friedrich Lisch, Carl Julius Milde and the restoration of Mecklenburg cultural assets. SVZ, Mecklenburg-Magazin (2003) No. 9 pp. 11-12.
  5. ↑ Information and pictures about the west window in Cologne Cathedral
  6. ^ Bernhard Kuhl: Glass paintings of the 19th century, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, The churches. Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-361-00536-1 , pp. 11-12.
  7. ↑ 200 years of persistence and change in bourgeois community spirit: Society for the promotion of charitable activities in Lübeck, 1789-1989. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1989, p. 160
personal data
SURNAME Mild, Carl Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Drawing teacher at the Katharineum in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1875
Place of death Lübeck