Eduard Ehrke

Eduard Paul Conrad Ehrke (born February 17, 1837 in Ludwigslust , † November 9, 1911 in Bath , England ) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf school and school teacher. He spent most of his life in England.

Life

Eduard Ehrke, son of the grand ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin runner (later valet) Ludwig Heinrich Ehrke and his wife Antonie Anna Ernestine, born. Haidner, came from a family of court craftsmen and court officials. He was a student at the Fridericianum in Schwerin . He received his first painting lessons from the architecture and landscape painter Friedrich Jentzen in Schwerin. From 1856 to 1857 he studied in Düsseldorf, 1858-1859 he undertook further studies in Munich. Study trips took him back to his Mecklenburg homeland, for example, together with Otto Dörr, he conducted nature studies in the vicinity of the town of Schwaan .

Ehrke went to England in 1860, where he initially a. a. Lived for several years in Dedham / Essex and from 1876 on was based in Bath / Somerset . Here he worked until 1896 as a teacher for drawing and "new languages" (German and French) at the King Edward VI School .

Eduard Ehrke was married to Harriett, born in 1868. Reeve (* 1836). The family had three children, all of whom were born in Dedham: Mary Ellen (1870-1936), Charles Edward Louis (1872-1949) and Arthur Herbert (1873-1934).

Eduard Ehrke's younger brother was the opera singer Paul Ehrke (1840-1893). Another brother was the painter Julius Ehrke (1836–1899), who also lived in England.

Works (selection)

As a painter

• Landscape at the edge of the forest with herd , 1855; until 1945 in the New Palace in Potsdam-Sanssouci
• Morning landscape , 1857
• Mecklenburg Summer Landscape (area around Rostock) , 1859; State Museum Schwerin
• English coastal landscape with a rowing boat , 1862
• Lime distillery on a canal , 1865; Art trade
• Approaching thunderstorm on the coast , 1873; Wuppertal, Volmer Collection Foundation

As an author

• German Passages for Unprepared Translation. For the Use of Candidates for Army, Civil Service, and other Examinations . Selected and arranged by Eduard Ehrke. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1899.
• Guide to advanced German prose composition, containing selections from Modern English authors, Notes, and a Grammatical Introduction . Oxford 1901. (New edition 1926; reprint 1950)

literature

• Friedrich Schlie : Descriptive directory of the works of more recent masters in the Grand Ducal Painting Gallery in Schwerin. Printed by the Bärensprungschen Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin 1884, p. 16, Textarchiv - Internet Archive .
• Ehrke, Eduard . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 399 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Ehrke, Eduard . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 32, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22772-8 , p. 466.
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2419 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ So the baptismal name according to the church book Ludwigslust, entry no. 24/1837. He was baptized on February 27, 1837 in his parents' house there.
2. ↑ Date of death:
   - November 9, 1911:
   “SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. E. EHRKE - Mr. Edward Ehrke, who had well-known in Bath for many years as a professor of modern languages, died very suddenly at his home, 2. Lambridge Place, on Thursday. […] Mr. Ehrke, who was a German by birth, formerly resided in Greenway Lane. He was over seventy years of age. ”In: Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette , Somerset, England, Saturday, November 11, 1911, p. 2
   Mr. Edward Ehrke, who was known for many years as a professor of modern languages ​​in Bath, died on Thursday [9. November] all of a sudden at his house, Lambridge Place 2. […] Mr. Ehrke, who was German by birth, used to reside in Greenway Lane. He was over 70 years old.
   - Other sources cite 1884 as the year of death.
3. ^ Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Calendar 1840. Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin 1840, p. 19 ( Google Books ).
4. ^ Friedrich Carl Wex : To the public examination of the students of the Gymnasium Fridericianum ... invites very obediently. Schwerin 1852, p. 36, Third Class (Obertertia) No. 18. (Digitalisat BSB)
5. ^ England and Wales census, 1881 ( memento of March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) from the FamilySearch database, accessed on September 12, 2015. All years are based on further queries from FamilySearch.
   
6. ↑ The years are also based on queries from FamilySearch, other sources cite (1837–1890).
7. ↑ Illustration at Lost Art Internet Database
8. ↑ Illustration at Blouin Artinfo.Com
9. ↑ Entry at the Volmer Collection Foundation .

Web links

• Literature about Eduard Ehrke in the state bibliography MV