Eduard Geselschap

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Portrait of Eduard Gesellschap in the friendship gallery (portrait no. 11) by Friedrich Boser , 1840–1853, Stadtmuseum Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
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Eduard Geselschap (born March 22, 1814 in Amsterdam , † January 5, 1878 in Düsseldorf ) was a German - Dutch painter of the Düsseldorf School .

Career

Eduard Geselschap was born into a large family of merchants. After studying at the grammar school in Wesel , where he was taught by the painter Johann Friedrich Welsch , Geselschap studied from 1833 to 1844/1845 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , including with Wilhelm von Schadow . He painted in the academy building until 1841 , then in a private studio .

Cute Siblings , 1856
The bedtime story

First he turned to literary subjects ( Faust in the study , 1839; Götz von Berlichingen before the council in Heilbronn , 1842; Valentin's death after Goethe's Faust, 1844; Romeo and Julie in the crypt , 1845), then biblical subjects ( Entombment of Christ , 1846; Herodias with the head of John , 1847; Adoration of the Magi , 1847). After stays in Belgium and the Netherlands, which were reflected in his work as "Belgian coloring", he dealt as a history painter with the history of the Thirty Years' War ( finding the body of Gustav Adolf , 1848; overnight camp of Wallenstein soldiers in a church , 1849). In the revolutionary year of 1848 , Geselschap was one of the founders of the Malkasten artists' association . In the 1850s he found genre painting as the main subject of his work, preferring in the late romantic manner to compose cozy scenes from folk, house and family life, often illuminated by warm lamp and candlelight ( Der St. Nikolaus- Evening , 1852; Musical evening party ; Christmas morning ; Family bath , 1855; Cute siblings , 1856; Der Martinsabend , 1858 and 1870; Mother with child (mother's happiness) , 1859; Little child with dog , 1860; The cradle ; The bedtime story ; A proud one Family , 1863; family happiness ). Some of these paintings were distributed in engravings by Fritz Werner and Alphonse Martinet . In 1853 the Norwegian National Gallery Christiania added a work by Geselschap to its collection. In the same year Geselschap exhibited the picture Finding the Body of Gustav Adolf in the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York's Crystal Palace . At the Sanitary Fair New York 1864 Geselschap exhibited again in New York City .

Geselschap is also of importance in art history because he - together with the painter Heinrich Oecklinghaus - is considered to be the discoverer of Theodor Mintrops (1814–1870). They recognized the talent of the thirty-year-old farm worker from Heidhausen , who had learned to draw as an autodidact, and convinced the academy director Schadow to accept him at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1844, despite his age. Mintrop then moved to Geselschap in a shared apartment that was not ended even when Geselschap married Lotte Rose in 1856. The three of them maintained a close relationship until Mintrop's death in 1870. Mintrop taught Friedrich Geselschap (1835–1898), Edward's brother. The Royal Academy Amsterdam accepted Eduard Geselschap as its member. Geselschap died in Düsseldorf- Pempelfort (Sternstrasse 41) in 1878 , having had a stroke for years.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Walther Gensel:  Geselschap, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 317-322.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Cortjaens: Between institutionalization and individual exchange. German-Belgian cultural transfer using the example of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1831 to 1865 . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Volume 1, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , p. 163
  3. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Volume 2, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , p. 191 (catalog no.144)
  4. ↑ Geselschap took up a similar motif by Alfred Rethel . - Cf. Siegfried Müller: The Thirty Years War in German history and genre painting of the 19th century - An inventory . Vol. 2, pp. 657-664 , text in the lwl.org portal , accessed on November 23, 2014
  5. ↑ Düsseldorfer Lichthistorie , website in the portal dus-illuminated.de , accessed on November 23, 2014
  6. ↑ Martinsabend ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), website in the portal heiliger-martin.de , accessed on November 23, 2014
  7. ^ Ernst Haverkamp: The Norwegian artists in Düsseldorf. The cultural transfer between Düsseldorf and the north . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Volume 1, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , p. 184
  8. ^ Sabine Morgen: The broadcast of the Düsseldorf painting school to America . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its charisma 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 189
  9. ^ Ulrich Pohlmann: The Düsseldorf School of Painting and Photography . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 348
  10. ^ Theodor Mintrop (illustrations), Margaret A. Rose (ed.): The album for Minna (1855-1857), along with other newly discovered materials. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 978-3-89528-378-9 , p. 82
  11. ↑ Helga Meister: Mintrops diabolical pleasure. Article from October 17, 2014 in the portal wz-newsline.de , accessed on November 22, 2014
  12. ↑ In a sketch Mintrop recorded a tableau vivant showing Rose's sisters Anna and Minna at an allegorical autumn celebration in October 1855. - See Margaret A. Rose: Joke, satire, parody and deeper meaning in the art of the Düsseldorf School of Painting around 1850 . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 299 f.
  13. ^ Düsseldorf civil status register, No. 37 of January 5, 1878
personal data
SURNAME Geselschap, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Dutch painter of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1878
Place of death Dusseldorf