Christian Ludwig Bokelmann

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Christian Ludwig Bokelmann , colored wood engraving after a painting by William August Shade , 1878

Christian Ludwig Bokelmann (born February 4, 1844 in St. Jürgen (Lilienthal) near Bremen , †  April 14, 1894 in Berlin ) was a German genre and portrait painter of realism and naturalism in the tradition of the Düsseldorf School .

Career

Christian Ludwig Bokelmann, son of a teacher and organist from St. Jürgen, learned the trade of a businessman in Lüneburg and Hamburg-Harburg at the request of his parents . It was not until 1868, after the death of his father, that he was able to study - following his inclination and the advice of a Hamburg painter - at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Ludwig Knaus and from 1871 in Wilhelm Sohn's private studio . In 1873 he exhibited at the Vienna World Exhibition , since 1874 at the Berlin Academy Exhibition , in 1878 at the Paris World Exhibition , and in Brussels in 1881 . In 1877 he won a gold medal at an exhibition in Ghent . In the 1880s, following an ethnographic interest that the Düsseldorf School had cultivated since Rudolf Jordan , he undertook an extensive study trip through the marshes and North Friesland . In 1883 he visits Sylt for the first time . The artists' colony of Katwijk he sought. During this time, Bokelmann increasingly pursued nature studies and outdoor painting . After several stays in North Friesland and on the island of Föhr, he increasingly turned to traditional folk life. From 1892 to 1893, Bokelmann worked as a professor of genre painting at the Karlsruhe Art Academy . In 1893 he accepted a call to the University of Fine Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Fritz Mackensen , who had met Bokelmann through Emilie Stolte, accompanied him in both positions as his master student and friend. Bokelmann was also friends with the Low German poet Klaus Groth . Bokelmann was a member of the Düsseldorfer Künstlerverein Malkasten and the Prussian Academy of the Arts , Section for the Fine Arts, Berlin (1894). He tragically died when he fell from a ladder in his Charlottenburg studio while trying to hang up a laurel wreath that grateful students had given him on his 50th birthday. Bokelmann was buried in the old cemetery in Hamburg-Harburg .

Art historical appreciation

The art connoisseur , 1879
  • Adolf Rosenberg , a contemporary of Bokelmann, classified him in 1890 as a representative of realism and naturalism and found that he, the “cold-blooded master of incorruptible observation”, was “the first Düsseldorf genre painter who was up to [the] artistic challenges of a new era showed ”.
  • In Bokelmann's later work, “serious pictorial themes with socially critical echoes” dominate; he overcame the studio tone and found a “richly nuanced room painting” ( Wend von Kalnein ).
  • His work represents a “turning towards the social 'modern moral image' that reflects the economic crises of the early days ” (Bettina Baumgärtel).

Works (selection)

Last Supper in Selsingen (1893/1894)
  • Large album with 58 drawings, mainly from his studies in Düsseldorf, 1868–1870
  • In the Mourning House , 1873, exhibited at the Vienna World Exhibition
  • Until the bright day (The Players) , 1874, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford / Greater Manchester, Bokelmann's first anecdotal and socially critical painting in the tradition of David Wilkie and Ludwig Knaus
  • In the pawnshop, shortly before the opening (anteroom of a pawnshop) , 1875/1876, socially critical painting, which reflects the effects of the " founder row " of 1873
  • The Volksbank shortly before the crash , 1877, Milwaukee Art Museum , exhibited at the Paris World Exhibition in 1878, depicting a scene in front of the Volksbank in Vienna on May 9, 1873
  • Portrait of Johann Baptist Paffrath , 1878, Museum Kunstpalast
  • Migrant camp before Christmas , 1878
  • The constitution of the will , 1879, describes in anecdotal and psychological terms the processes involved in the reconciliation of a daughter with her father when he was drafting his will
  • The art connoisseur , 1879
  • The last moments of an election campaign , 1880
  • Arrest of a woman , 1881
  • Departure of the Emigrants (Farewell to the Emigrants) , 1882, Galerie Neue Meister , Dresden
  • In the courtroom (In the courtroom) , 1883
  • Casino in Monte Carlo , 1884, "the motif for a reflection of the most nervous concentration of modern tourist and adventure life" ( Adolf Rosenberg )
  • Attempted strike by the carpenter journeyman , 1885
  • North Frisian burial , 1887/1888
  • Women in the Church of Nieblum, 1892, 80 × 60 cm. Museum of Art of the West Coast, Alkersum, Föhr
  • The village fire , 1885, 1886 and 1888, unadorned depiction of a misfortune against the background of changing contemporary tastes
  • Lead mine in Selbeck , 1888, National Gallery Berlin , unadorned representation of the industrial world of work in the Ruhr area
  • After the fire (The hospitality of the burned down) , 1893

gallery

  • The Constitution of the Will , 1879

  • Klaus Groth , 1891

  • After the fire , 1893

Web links

Commons : Christian Ludwig Bokelmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Alfred Gotthold Meyer :  Bokelmann, Christian Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 89 f.
  • Hans Wohltmann: Ludwig Bokelmann * February 4, 1844 - † April 15, 1894 . In: Mitteilungen des Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein , vol. 41, issue 3 (1966), p. 2 f.
  • Wend von Kalnein (ed.): The Düsseldorf school of painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 274 (catalog numbers 37, 38)
  • Barbara Hodel: Christian Ludwig Bokelmann (1844-1894). Monograph and catalog of works . European university publications: Art History, Volume 46, Verlag P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Bern, New York 1985, ISBN 978-3-8204-8258-4 ( table of contents )
  • Ernst Schlee: The painter Christian Ludwig Bokelmann as an actor of the North Frisian folk life . In: Nordelbingen , Heft 55 (1986), p. 141 ff.
  • Rüdiger Articus, Ralf Busch : Christian Ludwig Bokelmann. A rediscovered folk life painter of the 19th century . Publications of the Hamburg Museum for Archeology and History Harburg, issue 68 (1994)
  • Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its International Radiance 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1: pp. 44, 170, 204, 209, 225, 255, 314, 369, 371, 373; Volume 2: pp. 316–319 (catalog no. 266, 268)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Cortjaens: Between institutionalization and individual exchange. German-Belgian cultural transfer using the example of the Düsseldorf School of Painting from 1831 to 1865 . In: Bettina Baumgärtel , Volume 1, p. 170
  2. ^ Julia Hümme: Gregor von Bochmann (1850–1930). Life and work of a Baltic German painter in Düsseldorf . Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2007, ISBN 978-3-937719-31-3 , p. 29 ( online )
  3. ↑ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Föhr, Amrum and the Halligen in Art, Heide 2012, pp. 78–80
  4. ↑ Nicole Roth: How modern is the Düsseldorf School of Painting? In: Bettina Baumgärtel, Volume 1, p. 255
  5. ↑ Inventory list of the Malkasten artists' association in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on September 14, 2014
  6. ^ Christian Ludwig Bokelmann . Short biography on the adk.de portal , accessed on September 14, 2014
  7. ↑ William Dehlwes: Lilienthal and its inhabitants . Volume II, self-published by the community of Lilienthal, 1st edition, 1981, p. 246 ( online )
  8. ^ Adolf Rosenberg : Christian Ludwig Bokelmann . In: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst , year 1890, Carl von Lützow (Ed.), Verlag EA Seemann, Leipzig, p. 3 ( digitized version )
  9. ↑ Wend von Kalnein (Ed.), P. 274 (catalog numbers 37, 38)
  10. ^ Bettina Baumgärtel: The Chronicle of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . In: Bettina Baumgärtel, Volume 1, p. 369
  11. ^ Bokelmann, Christian Ludwig: Large album with 58 drawings, 1868 . Website in the portal kettererkunst.de , accessed on September 14, 2014
  12. ↑ Cf. Kathrin DuBois: The power of money . In: Bettina Baumgärtel, Volume 2, p. 318
  13. ↑ The Gambler by Christian Ludwig Bokelmann ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website in the bbc.co.uk portal , accessed on September 14, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbc.co.uk
  14. ↑ Cf. Kathrin DuBois: Christian Ludwig Bokelmann: In the pawn shop, shortly before the opening, 1876 . In: Bettina Baumgärtel, Volume 2, p. 316
  15. ^ Reproduced as a lithograph in: Die Gartenlaube , 1881, Issue 47, p. 784
  16. ^ Image description Christian Ludwig Bokelmann, The Volksbank shortly before the crash (1877) . Website in the portal germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org , accessed on September 14, 2014
  17. ↑ The People's Bank Shortly Before the Crash . Website in the portal collection.mam.org , accessed on September 14, 2014
  18. ↑ Nadine Müller: "It's very strange, everything here deals with pictures" - Insights into the Düsseldorf art trade in the 19th century using selected examples . In: Bettina Baumgärtel, Volume 1, p. 314 (Figure 2)
  19. ↑ See contemporary image description in: Die Gartenlaube , 1888, Issue 18, p. 308
  20. ^ Christian Ludwig Bokelmann (1844-1894): Farewell to the emigrants, 1882 . Image description in the portal musee-imaginaire.de , accessed on September 14, 2014
  21. ↑ Photo review of the North Frisian Burial ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the portal kgi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de , accessed on September 14, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kgi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
  22. ^ Sonja Grunow: Children's picture around 1900 . Dissertation Karlsruhe 2012, Karlsruhe Writings on Art History, Volume 9, LIT Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12135-6 , p. 395, Figure 5.86 ( online )
  23. ↑ Dorfbrand , picture review in the portal museen-sh.de , accessed on September 14, 2014
  24. ↑ See Lilian Landers: "... a new subject of the genre" - The socially critical genre image of the Düsseldorf School of Painting in an international comparison . In: Bettina Baumgärtel, Volume 1, p. 204
  25. ↑ Lead mine in Selbeck , website in the portal bildindex.de , accessed on September 14, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Bokelmann, Christian Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Jürgen (Lilienthal)
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1894
Place of death Berlin