Eduard Niese

Theodor Eduard Matthias Niese (born March 23, 1833 in Hamburg ; † June 23, 1898 ibid) was a German advertising and decorative painter .

Live and act

Eduard Niese was the son of the upholsterer Johann Christian Friedrich Niese, who died in 1850. Since the upholsterer profession was not a guild, his father probably worked independently. The father had often changed his place of residence in Hamburg-Neustadt and later owned a small house there in the street Hütten . It can therefore be assumed that Eduard Niese grew up in modest circumstances.

Eduard Niese completed an apprenticeship as a lithographic draftsman and created works for several employers, including Charles Fuchs and G. F. Wurzbach, who printed picture sheets in Hamburg-Altona . From around 1870, Niese decorated roller blinds with ornaments and landscape motifs, which was considered modern at the time. Most likely, he also created advertising motifs that could be seen in shop windows. At the age of 50, Niese also began to paint on paper. He used opaque paints and watercolors and captured scenes from everyday life in Hamburg. He combined the paintings into series and created his own cover images for these collections. Niese probably painted on his own initiative and without the intention of selling the paintings later.

In 1879 Eduard Niese married Wilhelmine Auguste Christiane, née Koock, with whom he had no children. During his life he changed residence often. Niese died in June 1898 in his hometown.

Works

E. Niese: Im Speckgang , opaque color painting from 1891

Niese's paintings, which show Hamburg towards the end of the 19th century and are kept in the style of naive realism , became famous. Niese used strong colors and thus captured the sprawling advertising, the contrasts between restrained old buildings and magnificent buildings from the Wilhelminian era, as well as the modern achievements of the time such as artificial lighting and new types of transport. In 1885, at the “Alt-Hamburg” exhibition, he showed paintings of parts of Hamburg that were threatened with demolition. After Niese's death, around 1900 the Hamburg Museum of Art and Crafts bought around 150 pictures, which could be seen in the museum's Hamburgensien collection. The Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte took over almost all of these in 1921. The museum itself had also bought other works by Niese and thus owned a total of around 250 paintings by the artist. After a highly regarded representative exhibition in 1969/70, several large-format publications of Eduard Niese's pictures were published.

literature

• Ulrich Bauche : Niese, Eduard . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 4 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0229-7 , pp. 252 .

Web links

Commons : Eduard Niese  - Collection of images, videos and audio files