Eduard Handwerck

Johann Jakob Eduard Handwerck (* May 21, 1824 in Kassel ; † March 11, 1883 ibid) was a German horse painter , painter , animal painter, draftsman , lithographer and graphic artist .

Life

The son of a book printer initially trained as a lithographer . In the 1840s he worked as a self-employed lithographer and created a. a. numerous portrait lithographs. In 1848 Handwerck studied painting at the Kassel Art Academy , under Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790–1863) and Friedrich Wilhelm Müller (1801–1898). In 1847 he was awarded a medal. With an electoral travel grant, he attended the art academies in Düsseldorf , Antwerp and Paris in 1854 and 1855 and finally settled in Kassel on his return. In 1859 he took over the post of curator of the Kunstverein für Kurhessen , which he held until his death. For the art association, he was also responsible for organizing art exhibitions. He played a decisive role in the founding of the Kassel Kunsthaus .

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Several works prove studies in the Hessian Schwalm and in the vicinity of the Willingshausen painters' colony such as the lithograph Zwei Schwälmerinnen from 1860. With a pronounced power of observation and after intensive studies, he mainly devoted himself to depictions of horses, such as the 2nd Hessian Hussar Regiment in the battle at Gundershoffen in 1870 or the officers of the Hessian Garde du Corps , but also portraits, small-format and popular scenes, also these mostly with depictions of horses. In 1869 he created an altarpiece for the nuns' church in Fulda , The Rose Miracle of Saint Elisabeth . The artist presented his work in Kassel ( haymaking at Gewitter 1874, purchase of the art association), but also in Berlin ( The good old days 1872). His last picture showed a vividly painted obstacle race (1883). An estate exhibition of his works took place in Kassel in spring 1883. The city's art association honored him posthumously in 1924 on the occasion of his 100th birthday with a memorial exhibition.

Selection of works

• Male portrait (1854): Kassel, Neue Galerie
• Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman (1856)
• Portrait of Lisette Schmieder (1856)
• The circus rider (1865)
• Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I on horseback (1866)
• Horses escaping in front of a hay wagon (1874)
• Horse Racing (1883)

literature

• Hermann Alexander Müller (Ed.): Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works. 2nd edition, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1884.
• Handwerck, JE. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 456 ( archive.org ).
• Handwerck, j. E. In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 2 : Gaab – Lezla . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 127 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Handwerck, Eduard . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 585 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• W. Scheller, Eduard Handwerck on the 50th anniversary of his death. In: Kasseler Post , No. 51, 1933 (with illus. Self-portrait and the 2nd Hussian Hussar Regiment in action near Gundershoffen, 1870 ).
• H. Handwerck: Eduard Handwerck (1824-1883). In: Lebensbilder from Kurhessen and Waldeck 1, 1939, pp. 123–125.
• Inventory catalog Neue Galerie, Staatliche und Städtische Kunstsammlungen Kassel, 1991, No. 315–321 (ill.)
• Siegfried Weiß , in: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 , p. 42 (fig.).
• Handwerck, Eduard . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 69, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-23036-3 , p. 76 f.