Christian Heyden (painter)

Married couple Christian and Catharina Heyden, silver gelatine photography from family ownership, around 1890

Self-portrait Christian Heyden, 1929, family property

Christian Heyden (born August 29, 1854 in Cologne , † May 24, 1939 in Düsseldorf ) was a German portrait , genre and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Heyden, younger brother of the genre painter Karl Heyden , studied painting like him at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . He began studying there in May 1871, after receiving first painting lessons from his brother. Andreas and Karl Müller were his teachers in the preparatory classes at the Düsseldorf Academy , then he went to Julius Roeting's painting class . Heyden also attended the Antwerp Art Academy . In Düsseldorf , where he finally settled in 1887, Heyden was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . At the beginning of the 20th century he lived at Roonstrasse 11 (today Sonderburgstrasse) in Düsseldorf- Oberkassel . He worked as a portraitist for numerous noble families in the Rhenish-Westphalian region. His portraits of Cardinal Antonius Fischer , Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser and Kaiser Wilhelm II are known. Heyden married Catharina Weißweiler (born August 5, 1859 in Cologne, † in July 1943 in Scheidegg in the Allgäu).

Works (selection)

Sagittarius Brothers
Kaiser Wilhelm II. , German Historical Museum
Advance! after a painting by Heyden from 1886

literature

Heyden, Christian. 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, p. 527 ( archive.org ).
Heyden, Christian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 20 .
Heyden, Christian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 53 .

Web links

Commons : Christian Heyden (painter) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Christian Heyden , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Christian Heyden , auction results on the artnet .de portal

Individual evidence

↑ Inventory list , website on the malkasten.org portal , accessed on December 23, 2016
^ Heyden, Christian, Maler, O, Roonstr. 11. In: Address book for the city of Düsseldorf, 5th part. 1903, p. 38 ( uni-duesseldorf.de ).
↑ Gisbert Knopp : Peter Joseph Lenné - The famous royal Prussian general garden director and his much-loved hometown Bonn . P. 29, footnote 53 ( lenne-akademie.de PDF).
↑ Kaiser Wilhelm II. , Website in the portal dhm.de ( German Historical Museum Foundation ).
↑ E. Werner: Die Alpenfee (serial novel) . In: The Gazebo . Issue 31, 1888, pp. 517 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).

personal data
SURNAME	Heyden, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait, genre and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	August 29, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	May 24, 1939
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Inventory list , website on the malkasten.org portal , accessed on December 23, 2016

[2] Heyden, Christian, Maler, O, Roonstr. 11. In: Address book for the city of Düsseldorf, 5th part. 1903, p. 38 ( uni-duesseldorf.de ).

[3] Gisbert Knopp : Peter Joseph Lenné - The famous royal Prussian general garden director and his much-loved hometown Bonn . P. 29, footnote 53 ( lenne-akademie.de PDF).

[4] Kaiser Wilhelm II. , Website in the portal dhm.de ( German Historical Museum Foundation ).

[5] E. Werner: Die Alpenfee (serial novel) . In: The Gazebo . Issue 31, 1888, pp. 517 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).