Christian Eduard Böttcher

Christian Eduard Böttcher 1858

Christian Eduard Böttcher (born December 9, 1818 in Imgenbroich , † June 15, 1889 in Düsseldorf ; also Christian Eduard Boettcher ) was a German painter .

Christian Böttcher (The Gazebo, 1871)

Career

Christian Eduard Böttcher first attended the Stuttgart Art School under Johann Heinrich von Dannecker from 1833 to 1838 and trained as a lithographer . He then worked as such for the Ebner'sche publishing house in Stuttgart and for the lithographic institute Arnz & Comp. in Düsseldorf . From 1844 to 1849 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with the history painter Theodor Hildebrandt and in the master class of Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow . After completing his studies, he settled in Düsseldorf and was appointed professor at the art academy in 1872. In 1848 he was one of the founding members of the Malkasten artists' association , of which he was part of the board. He was a member of the Association of Düsseldorf Artists for Mutual Support and Help as well as the academic association "Orient".

Artistic activity

In his work, Boettcher mainly devoted himself to portraits and figurines, although initially - under the influence of Carl Wilhelm Huebner - he preferred socially critical themes, such as the paintings The Blind and His Guide (1845) and The Release of the Prisoner (1848). In the 1860s / 70s, paintings were created that bring together the representation of people, cities and landscapes on the Rhine, localizable between Bingen and Cologne, and whose subjects are occasionally in the tradition of Adolph Schroedter . In contrast to the latter, which is often satirical and critical, Boettcher's popular compositions emphasize a late romantic sentimental mood, for example in Haymaking on the Rhine (1856) and Evening on the Rhine (1860) and Summer Night on the Rhine (1862), both of which are (identifiable) Düsseldorf artists show in front of a tavern, Rhenish harvest near Sinzig (1864), "The Tourist on the Rhine" - probably the painter Adolf Seel - (1865), Landhaus am Rhein (1866), extract from the grape harvest (1867), Am Marktbrunnen of a Rhenish town ( 1870), or Rhine trip on the Loreley (1880). Boettcher also appeared as a portrait painter and draftsman, including portrait drawings by the painters Carl Gottfried Eybe and Hermann Werner . Lithographs based on his work appeared in the Düsseldorf artist albums as well as in the “Collection of lithographs based on genre pictures from Düsseldorf artists”, wood engravings in many illustrated sheets of the time. The artists' association “Malkasten” in Düsseldorf has his own portrait, painted by Ernst Bosch , another by Adolf Lins and a caricature.

painting

Child's play in the yard

At the market fountain in Bingen

Among the best known and most important of these Rhenish paintings belong

• Heinrich Ed. Anschütz as Marquis Posa in Schiller's 'Don Carlos' (1840): Munich, Theater Museum
• The blind man and his guide (1845)
• Portrait of Amalie Wolff, later wife of Benkraths (1847): Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
• Release of a Prisoner (1848)
• Portrait of Mrs. Wilhelm Beissel (1849)
• After the battle (1851)
• Return from the school festival / May Day (1852): Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum
• The punishing shoemaker (1853)
• Portrait of Mathilde Mollier, geb. of Franqué (1853)
• Summer evening on the Rhine (1855)
• Haymaking on the Lahn (1856)
• Children's concert (1857)
• Evening on the Rhine (1860)
• Rhenish harvest (1861)
• Autumn evening (1861)
• Summer night on the Rhine (1862): Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
• Evening in the Black Forest (1863): Leipzig, Art Museum
• Rhenish village youth (1863)
• Summer morning on the Rhine (1864)
• On the Wandering (1865)
• Extract from the vintage (1866)
• Happy People in the Hut and Happy People in the Palace (1866)
• At the market fountain of a Rhenish town (1870)
• Landhaus am Rhein (1870)
• Returning from the Field (1872)
• Rhenish slater (1874)
• Sunday on the Rhine (1875)
• View of Katz Castle and the Loreley (1876): Bonn, Rheinromantik Collection
• Happy Mother (1877)
• View from Muffendorf near Bonn to the Siebengebirge (1877): Bonn, Rheinromantik Collection
• Crossing the Loreley (1880): Bonn, Rheinromantik Collection
• The Rhine at Rolandseck (1882): Bonn, Rheinromantik Collection
• The Kohler's Evening Prayer (1884)
• Oberwesel with Schönburg (1884): Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum
• Oberwesel (1888): Bonn, Rheinromantik Collection
• St. Goar and Goarshausen am Rhein (1885)
• Dausenau near Ems (1887)
• Leutesdorf with Andernach am Rhein (1888)

• Portrait of Miss Bertha von Stadman , House Besselich near Vallendar
• Portrait of Leonhard Rausch , Düsseldorf, artists' association Malkasten
• Portrait of August Beck , Düsseldorf, artist association Malkasten
• Portrait of Bünker , Düsseldorf, artists' association Malkasten
• Portrait of Theodor Mintrop
• Portrait of Josef Gotthard Lossen (1795–1866) , Portrait of Maria Anna Lossen, b. Cathrein (1806–1887) and portrait of Maximilian Lossen

Fonts

Handwritten curriculum vitae: Düsseldorf, Künstlerverein Malkasten (archive)

literature

• Eduard Daelen :  Böttcher, Christian Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 142.
• Friedrich Müller (Ed.): The artists of all times and peoples. Volume 1, Stuttgart 1857.

• Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to Art History Volume I 2. Dresden 1891/1901.
• Hans Vollmer : Boettcher, Christian Eduard . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 210 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• General artist lexicon. Lives and works of the most famous visual artists , prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller, edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer. Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / Main 1921, Volume 1.
• Adolf Rosenberg: From the Düsseldorf painting school. Studies and sketches. Leipzig 1889, p. 36.
• Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art especially in the XIX. Century. Düsseldorf 1902, p. 179 (ill.).
• Karl Koetschau (ed.): Rhenish painting in the Biedermeier period. Düsseldorf 1926, p. 89.
• One hundred years of the artists' association Malkasten Düsseldorf 1848–1948. Düsseldorf 1948, p. 19 (ill.).
• Ute Immel: The German genre painting in the 19th century. Diss. Univ. Heidelberg 1967, p. 288 ff.
• Wolfgang Hütt : The Düsseldorf School of Painting. 1819-1869. Leipzig 1995.
• Sabine Schroyen (arrangement): Sources on the history of the artists' association Malkasten. A center of bourgeois art and culture in Düsseldorf since 1848. Cologne 1992.
• Hans Paffrath (ed.): Masterpieces of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Düsseldorf 1995 (ill.).
• Meinhard Michael: Boettcher, Christian Eduard . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 12, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22752-3 , p. 206.
• Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , pp. 154-158 (fig.).
• Siegfried Weiß : Christian Eduard Böttcher - “Rheinromantik” with Düsseldorf painters. In: Weltkunst , Issue 1, January 1, 1998 (Fig.).

Web links

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