Eduard Pistorius

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Visit to the vet
(the sick donkey)
The violin player , 1835

Eduard Pistorius (born February 28, 1796 in Berlin , † August 20, 1862 in Karlsbad ) was a German genre painter and etcher . He studied in Berlin with Ludwig Wilhelm Wittich (1773-1832) at the academy, from 1818 to 1819 in Dresden . He continued his education through diligent copying in the galleries of the Sanssouci and Dresden palaces . From 1824 he sent the Berlin academy exhibitions. From 1827 to 1830 he was based in Düsseldorf , since then in Berlin, and in 1840 in Rome .

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Pistorius leaned closely on Dutch genre pictures of the 17th century , especially Adriaen van Ostade and Gerrit Dou , and painted humorous genre pictures, e.g. B. The Sick Donkey , The Sick Boot and Sound Sleep . With his portrayal of everyday situations he had a great influence on the development of the Düsseldorf School of Painting , for example on Carl Friedrich Lessing , Johann Peter Hasenclever and Theodor Hildebrandt . During this time, topics such as the old farmer at breakfast , the old minstrel , the spelling boy , the drinker at the barrel , the bowling alley and the artist's studio in Düsseldorf emerged . Pistorius is considered to be the Düsseldorf School's earliest genre painter.

Judgment by contemporaries

The Düsseldorf professor Rudolf Wiegmann assessed Eduard Pistorius in 1856 as follows:

“ In his works, Pistorius appears to us as an arch-prose nature, he only makes sense for the trivial, his gaze is only attached to the extreme of the external appearance. He knows how to reproduce this with anxious diligence and sometimes also with skill, but without any deeper thought or sensation under that cover. "

- Rudolf Wiegmann

painting

  • House devotion , Reichsmuseum Amsterdam
  • The village violinist , 1831, National Gallery Berlin
  • Reading by candlelight (The politicizing schoolmaster) , 1832, Volmer Wuppertal Collection
  • Siesta of the butcher master , Museum Wroclaw
  • At the corner lawyer , Riga Museum
  • The wild pret dealer , Riga Museum
  • Piazza Montanara in Rome , 1845, Rostock Municipal Art Collection

Web links

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

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule , website of the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf 2011, accessed on August 18, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.duesseldorfer-malerschule.com
  2. ^ Ute Ricke-Immel: The Düsseldorf genre painting . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 152
  3. ^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 139, no. 123 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Rudolf Wiegmann: The Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Their history, furnishings and effectiveness and the Düsseldorf artists. Buddeus Verlag, Düsseldorf 1856. Pages 270-271.
  5. ^ Before 1926 it was probably sold by the Museum Breslau; There is currently no information about the location of the painting.
personal data
SURNAME Pistorius, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1862
Place of death Carlsbad