Carl Jutz

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Carl Jutz: Colorful Poultry , 1901

Carl Jutz (also Carl Jutz the Elder ; born September 22, 1838 in Windschläg, today the city of Offenburg , † August 31, 1916 in Pfaffendorf , today the city of Koblenz ) was a German animal painter .

Life

Carl Jutz comes from an old Windschläger family. His father was the shoemaker Joseph Jutz, his mother was Ottilia (born Zettwoch, † 1848). He was the fourth of nine children. He lived in Windschläg until 1845 and in that year moved with the family to Beuern , today Baden-Baden-Lichtental. While his father emigrated to the USA with his son Pirmin in 1853, Carl stayed in Beuern and his sisters Adelheid, Theresia and Cäcilia were housed with relatives in Windschläg until 1855. During this time he came into contact with the painter August Knip (1777–1847), who came from the Netherlands and who stayed in Baden-Baden and instructed Jutz in animal painting.

In 1861 he moved to Munich, where he made the acquaintance of Ludwig Willroider and Anton Braith and, under their influence, only devoted himself to painting animals. He did not attend an academy there. On his travels Jutz made contact with Düsseldorf painters and moved to Düsseldorf in 1867, where he married Sybilla Karolina Adloff (1850–1927), the daughter of the landscape painter Carl Adloff , in 1868 and where most of his works were created. His Düsseldorf house had a garden in which poultry were kept for animal painting. From 1868 until his death, Jutz was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . He spent his last years in Pfaffendorf near Koblenz.

Jutz was a very successful painter in his day, whose paintings aroused great interest in the exhibitions at that time between Hamburg, Dresden, Munich and Vienna. As early as 1867, Jutz exhibited at the Paris World Exhibition , in 1879 in Sydney, where he received a medal, and in 1881 at the World Exhibition in Melbourne. His main works were in great demand in England and the USA, but German museums in Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Breslau and Königsberg also secured pictures from his work while the painter was still alive. His paintings still fetch high prices today.

Jutz's topic extended almost exclusively to the poultry in their chicken yards. He grouped the animals with meticulous and almost photographic accuracy against the background of rural scenery, whereby the special intensity of the colors catches the eye. He also painted other animals and landscapes less often, for example on trips that he regularly made to his home in Baden.

“Towards the end of the 1880s, he [Carl Jutz] added a colorful peacock amidst common ducks and hens, which is inevitably associated with the Wilhelminian style parvenu. Characteristics of his compositionally and technically accomplished oeuvre are a low viewer point of view with spatial proximity to the animals and their habitat, color brilliance, pronounced light-shadow contrasts, fine brushstrokes placed with the aid of a magnifying glass for the meticulous reproduction of color and material details, precision in the lifelike imitation the animal anatomy as well as precise observation of species-specific behavior "

- Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting

His son Carl Ernst Bernhard Jutz (also called Carl Jutz the Younger , 1873–1915) was an important landscape painter, whose paintings are still often offered at auctions today.

literature

  • Jutz, Karl. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, pp. 631-632 ( archive.org ).
  • Jutz, Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926, p. 356 .
  • Karl Joggerst: The animal painter Carl Jutz the Elder from Windschläg. In: D'r Windschläger Bott. 1988, pp. 18-25.
  • Karl Joggerst: The animal painter Carl Jutz from Windschläg. In: The Ortenau. Volume 68, 1988, pp. 505-512 ( digitized version ).
  • City of Offenburg (ed.): Carl Jutz: a Düsseldorf animal painter from Windschläg. Publication of the cultural office of the city of Offenburg 16. 80 S. Reiff, Schwarzwaldverlag. 1992, ISBN 3-922663-14-1 .
  • Karl Joggerst: A Jutz for 32,000 marks: there was also a picture of the Windschläger painter in the margravial collection. In: D'r Windschläger Bott. 1995, pp. 33-34.
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. 1819-1918. Bruckmann, Munich 1997–1998 (3 volumes; in collaboration with Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf, and Galerie Paffrath, Düsseldorf).

Web links

Commons : Carl Jutz the Elder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Carl Jutz dorfgeschichte-windschlaeg.de
  2. ^ Family Jutz in the garden of the Düsseldorf house , photo in the portal dorfgeschichte-windschlaeg.de , accessed on May 16, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Jutz, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jutz, Carl (the elder)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animal painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenburg
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1916
Place of death Koblenz