Conrad Westermayr

This article deals with the engraver and painter Conrad Westermayr (1765–1834). On the painter see Konrad Westermayr (1883–1917).

Conrad Westermayr
Portrait of Moritz Daniel Oppenheim 1817 ( Weimar Art Collections )

Signature of Conrad Westermayr

Conrad Westermayr (born January 30, 1765 in Hanau ; † October 5, 1834 there ) was a German painter and engraver.

Life

Westermayr was the son of Daniel Jacob Westermayr (1734–1788). He learned the goldsmith's trade from his father and also attended the local drawing academy . For economic reasons he began to draw portraits. It was not until 1788 that he began studying with Jacob Heinrich Tischbein at the Kassel Academy . His first oil paintings were copies by other masters.

In 1791 he studied in Weimar with Lips the Kupferstecherei . He successfully engraved replicas of works by other artists and worked for the publishing house Industrie-Kontor von Bertuch . In 1795 he went to Dresden to study landscape and antique painting. In 1800 he was back in Weimar and married Christiane Henriette Dorothea Stötzer (1772–1834).

In 1806 he became a professor at the Academy in Hanau. There he was appointed director after a few years and taught successfully until the end of his life. Here he experienced the changes of the Napoleonic era as well as the battle of Hanau , where he made several paintings and copper engravings of the battle. The collections of the Hanau Historical Museum / Hanau History Association contain a series of drawings of the Hanau city gates that have been torn down since 1806. In 1808 he became a member of the Wetterau Society , for which he drew minerals and other objects. The focus of his work, however, was in promoting his students at the drawing academy. Among them were the Marburg university drawing teacher Ludwig Christian Hach (1799–1873) and Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800–1882). Westermayr remained childless and died in Hanau in 1834.

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  The Nuremberg Gate in Hanau during the demolition. The draftsman has depicted himself in the lower right corner of the picture.

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  The Steinheimer Tor during the demolition

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  Bombardment of the city and the burning suburbs when the French withdrew in the Battle of Hanau (night of October 30th to 31st, 1813).

literature

• Wilhelm Grotefend:  Westermayr, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, pp. 189-191.
• Norbert Nail: “Semper funny. Nunquam sad. “Marburg students in Conrad Westermayr's studbook. In: alma mater philippina. Summer semester 1994, pp. 22-25.
• Georg Kaspar Nagler : Westermayr, Conrad . In: New general artist Lexicon or messages from the life and works of painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, die cutter, lithographer, illustrator, Medals and Ivory, etc . 3. Edition. tape 24 . Schwarzenberg & Schumann, Leipzig 1835 ( books.google.cl ).
• Ina Schneider: Conrad and Henriette Westermayr - living and working in Weimar and Hanau. In: New magazine for Hanau history . 1996, pp. 2-34.

Web links

Commons : Conrad Westermayr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Listing of the holdings in Michael Müller: "Today you can see potatoes growing where cannons used to be planted." Changes in the Hanau townscape during the Napoleonic era. In: Erhard Bus, Markus Häfner, Martin Hoppe (Red.): Hanau in the Napoleonic era. Published by Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 eV to commemorate the battle of Hanau on October 30 and 31, 1813. Hanau 2014, ISBN 978-3-935395-21-3 (=  Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 47 ), pp. 187-201, esp. P. 190 f.