Eduard Hildebrandt
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Eduard Hildebrandt (born September 9, 1818 in Danzig , † October 25, 1868 in Berlin ) was a German painter.
Life
Eduard Hildebrandt, the brother of the painter Fritz Hildebrandt , received his first artistic lessons from his father. At the age of twenty Hildebrandt moved to Berlin in 1837 and found accommodation in the studios of various painters. In the following year Hildebrandt went on a study trip to the island of Rügen and discovered the landscape of the German Baltic coast as a subject . After his return he got a job in the studio of the marine painter Wilhelm Krause . In 1839 Hildebrandt went on a study trip through England and Scotland , with a focus again on the coast.
On the recommendation of Wilhelm Krause, Hildebrandt was able to go to Paris in 1841 and become a pupil of the painter Eugène Isabey . As early as 1843 he was allowed to participate in the exhibition of the Paris Salon with a small genre painting ; it was awarded a gold medal. Hildebrandt returned to Berlin at the end of the same year. On the recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt , who influenced him significantly through his knowledge of the American natural world, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV supported Hildebrandt with a considerable amount, so that he could go on an extensive trip to Brazil and North America in 1844 .
This two-year study trip was artistically very decisive for Hildebrandt. In addition to his seascapes , which he painted less and less, from now on he concentrated on landscapes , which he created with extraordinary light and shadow effects. After returning from this trip, many oil paintings were created on the basis of sketches, drawings and watercolors, most of which the royal court bought.
A short time later Hildebrandt became Königl. Preuss. Court painter appointed. As such, he embarked on a journey in late summer 1848 that took him via London to Funchal ( Madeira ). From there he sailed along the west coast of Africa, visited Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ( Canary Islands ) and returned to Berlin via Spain and Portugal in the autumn of 1849. The yield from the trip consisted of over 200 watercolors, almost all of which the Prussian king bought.
On the occasion of the great Berlin art exhibition of 1850, Hildebrandt showed the two pictures "A View into the Sea" and "Evening on Madeira", with which he again won a gold medal.
Hildebrandt's fourth journey took him in 1851 through Italy , Egypt and Syria to Palestine . He returned to Berlin via Turkey and Greece . The yield was in turn hundreds of watercolors and drawings, almost all of which were also bought by the Prussian king. Other buyers were Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, his son Alexander II , the Duke of Ratibor, Clovis of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst and the Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein .
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His fifth journey, again sponsored by the Prussian court, took Hildebrandt through the mountainous landscapes of Switzerland , Austria and northern Italy . Back in Berlin, Hildebrandt became a member of the academy and was entrusted with a teaching assignment there. That is why he was only able to travel to Northern Europe as far as the North Cape in 1856 - a journey which - according to his own statement - did not inspire him artistically, although he also brought some pictures home from there.
In the years between 1861 and 1862 Hildebrandt undertook his last art journey, which then also became a world tour. Hildebrandt came home with over 300 watercolors, drawings and oil paintings.
Works (selection)
- Tsar Nicholas I leaves Swinoujscie on the way to Stockholm (1840)
- Normandy Coast (1846)
- Winter landscape (1846)
- Evening in the bay of Rio de Janeiro
- Tropical rain
- A Brazilian jungle
- Santa Gloria
- Rio de Janeiro
- A look into the sea
- Evening in Madeira
- The peak of Tenerife
- Lisbon as seen from Almada
- Moon night
- Cammera dos Lobos, Madeira
- Bank of the Nile
- Evening on the Marmara Sea
- At the dead sea
- The North Cape
- Under the willows
- Winter landscape
- Haymaking in the Oderbruch
- Beach in the evening light (1855)
- Kronborg Castle near Elsinore (1857)
- An evening on Rügen
- Sea level
- Benares in the early light (1866)
- An Evening in Siam (1866, the counterpart of the previous one)
- The sacred lake of Burma (1867)
- The donkey and the marabout
- The Chinese fishermen
- Under the equator
literature
- Fanny Arndt: Eduard Hildebrandt, the painter of the cosmos. His life and his works. Lesser, Berlin 1869.
- Ernst Kossak : Professor Eduard Hildebrandt's trip around the earth. Janke, Berlin 1867. (3 vol.)
- Frauke Josenhans: Hildebrandt, Eduard , in: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (Ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843 . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 110–112.
- Joseph Eduard Wessely : Hildebrandt, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 402 f.
- Capricorn and Loeillot: Journey Around the Earth. (34 sheets), Wagner, Berlin 1874.
- Maria Elizabete Santos Peixoto: German painter in Brazil in the XIX century. Pinakotheke, Rio de Janeiro 1989, ISBN 85-7191-001-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Renate Löschner: The illustration of America under the influence of Alexander von Humboldt . In: Wolfgang-Hagen Hein (Ed.): Alexander von Humboldt. Life and work . Boehringer, Ingelheim 1985, ISBN 3-921037-55-7 , pp. 294 .
- ↑ Gerd-Helge Vogel: A view of Swinemünde from 1840 by Eduard Hildebrandt (1817–1869). In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. Issue 1/2009, ISSN 0032-4167 , pp. 20-26.
Web links
- Works by Eduard Hildebrandt at Zeno.org .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hildebrandt, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1868 |
| Place of death | Berlin |