Carl Rodeck

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Self portrait
Spring in the forest
Building of the Patriotic Society , around 1897, lobby of the citizenship in Hamburg's town hall

Carl Rodeck (born November 13, 1841 in Emden , † April 14, 1909 in Hamburg ) was a German etcher , landscape and marine painter .

Life

Rodeck's father worked as a lithographer and lithographer. In 1842 the family moved to Hamburg, where the father opened his own shop. In 1863 Rodeck began his art studies at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar with Arnold Böcklin , Ferdinand Pauwels and Alexander Michelis .

In 1869 Rodeck had to interrupt his studies to replace his sick father in the business. He then studied in Berlin, worked independently for a few months, but had to interrupt his studies again in 1871 to run the business in Hamburg. Until the death of his father, he still ran his lithography business, after which he finally devoted himself to painting. He painted the views of Hamburg and forest landscapes from the area around the city.

After a stay in Norway he visited the Netherlands, Belgium and England with his friend, the Hamburg painter Carl Oesterley .

Rodeck gave private lessons in drawing and painting for daughters from the upper class of Hamburg, including the sisters Helene and Molly Cramer and the painter Auguste Hansch . Among his students, he also met his future wife, Maria Hastedt, whom he married in 1888. The couple had two sons and a daughter who died as an infant.

In addition to the landscape and lake pictures, Rodeck also occupied himself with figure and portrait painting in the following years. He often worked outdoors well into old age. He was a member and second secretary of the Hamburg Artists' Association .

In old age he suffered from hearing loss. In November 1907 he had a stroke, which was followed by more, and had to give up painting for good. He died at the age of 68.

“When the new town hall [Hamburg] was built, he had to paint pictures for it again. Two larger ones in the anteroom of the citizenship, a large port picture and the patriotic building in rainy weather and four more pictures of Ritzebüttel, Neuwerk and Cuxhaven in the room carved by the orphans. "

- Leo Wulff

Exhibitions (selection)

He showed his works in oil and watercolor at many art exhibitions, first in Hamburg and Hanover, then in Berlin, Dresden and Munich, and finally in Vienna and London at the Royal Academy.

  • August 1890: Evening on the Elbe near Hamburg (oil painting) in the Munich annual exhibition in the royal glass palace.
  • May 18, 1909: Carl Rodeck estate exhibition at the Carl Stendler art exhibition in Hambrung.
  • June 24th, 25th and 26th, 1919: Exhibition for the auction of the C. Rodeck and H. Eggers estates ... in the art auction house G. Adolf Pohl.

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Rodeck  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Rump : Rodeck, Carl . In: Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Otto Bröcker, Hamburg 1912, p. 110–111 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Leo Wulff: Carl Rodeck: his life and his work. Krone, Hamburg 1920, p. 22.
  3. ↑ Rodeck, Carl . In: Illustrated catalog of the Munich annual exhibition of works of art from all nations in the royal. Glass palace . Publishing house for art and science formerly Friedrich Bruckmann, Munich 1889, p. 42 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Illustrated catalog of the estate exhibition at Carl Stendler. Grefe & Tiedemann, Hamburg 1909.
  5. ^ Art auction house G. Adolf Pohl (ed.): Auctioning of the estates of C. Rodeck and H. Eggers, a collection of paintings by old and modern masters from various private collections, [...] self-published, Hamburg 1919, p. 15-16 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Rodeck, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German etcher, landscape and miniature painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Emden
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1909
Place of death Hamburg