Constantin Hölscher

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Constantin Hölscher , also Constantin Hoelscher (born May 15, 1861 in Godesberg , Rhine Province ; † February 3,  1921 in Berlin ), was a German landscape , portrait , figure and allegory painter and an illustrator of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Churfüstenstrasse in Godesberg , 1888
In the Temple of Vesta , 1902

Hölscher was the son of the geodesist, innkeeper, local politician and art collector Constantin Hölscher (1829-1892), a long-time chairman of the Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg , and his wife Anna Margaretha Mundorf (1823-1888), a daughter of Henry Mundorf (1792 –1871), the innkeeper of the Plittersdorfer Hotel "Unter den Linden" , who was adored by the poet Heinrich Heine for her "fiery black eyes" and called "the Gretchen von Blittersdorf" by the writer Paul Heyse in his novella Das Ding an sich . He grew up as one of the couple's four children in Godesberg. His parents have been running the hotel “Zum Adler” there since 1860, which was flourishing in the wake of the romanticism of the Rhine , and where many painters from the Düsseldorf school stayed on their travels.

From 1881 to 1883, Hölscher studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Heinrich Lauenstein and Hugo Crola were his teachers in the elementary classes at the Düsseldorf Academy . He also took private lessons from the landscape painters Oswald Achenbach and August von Wille . Hölscher lived in Godesberg and Düsseldorf, later in Berlin, where he died in 1921 at the age of 59. In Düsseldorf he was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . Hölscher went on study trips to Italy and the Orient. On August 12, 1911, he married the British-Dutch noblewoman Wilhelmina Louise Baroness van Haersolte van den Doorn, née Mitford (1872–1951). The marriage was divorced after a year.

Hölscher appeared primarily through landscape paintings and portraits. He created illustrations for Johann Schwann's Godesberg travel guide published in 1888 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Constantin Hölscher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  2. ↑ The history of the Schaumburger Hof , website in the portal godesberger-markt.de , accessed on August 24, 2019
  3. ^ Paul Heyse : The thing in itself (1876). In: Novellas by Paul Heyse . Verlag von Wilhelm Hertz, Volume 6, 3rd edition, Berlin 1896, pp. 87 f. ( Digitized version )
  4. ↑ Carl Alfred Kellermann: The Gretchen von Plittersdorf, the linden landlady's little daughter. Colorful pictures from the Mundorf family circles . K. Rohm, Lorch / Württemberg 1934
  5. ↑ Pia Heckes: The "discovery" of Muffendorf in painting in the 19th century , website from January 7, 2016 in the muffendorf.net portal , accessed on August 24, 2019
  6. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
  7. ↑ Hölscher, Constantin, painter . In: Address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1893 . L. Voß & Cie., Düsseldorf 1893, part 1, p. 147
  8. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on August 24, 2019
  9. ^ Wilhelmina Louise (Wilhelmina Louise) Mitford , genealogical data sheet in the portal genealogieonline.nl , accessed on August 24, 2019
  10. ^ Johann Schwann: Godesberg, air spa and bathing resort near Bonn on the Rhine, opposite the Siebengebirge. A guide for spa guests and strangers . Emil Strauss, Bonn 1888 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Hölscher, Constantin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoelscher, Constantin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter, portrait painter, figure painter and allegory painter as well as illustrator of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Godesberg , Rhine Province
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1921
Place of death Berlin