Elmar von Eschwege

Elmar von Eschwege , also Friedrich Adolf Eilmar von Eschwege , (born August 22, 1856 in Braunschweig , † July 6, 1935 in Oberweimar ) was a German landscape , animal and war painter .

Life

Von Eschwege was born as the son of the district judge Hermann von Eschwege (1819–1903) and his wife Luise (born von der Wense , 1826–1917) in Braunschweig. He studied from 1877 to 1882 at the art school in Weimar , where he was taught by Albert Brendel and Alexander Struys . He also studied from April 18, 1882 in the "natural class" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and later at the Academy of Arts in Dresden with Ferdinand Pauwels , where he took over a professorship in 1890, later he was professor in Weimar. From 1899 to 1906 he worked in the Dachau artists' colony . In 1899 he was also a member of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft .

Crossing the Sava , triptych from 1915. It depicts the conquest of Belgrade by the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 208 .

He is best known for his paintings that tell of war events. These include pictures with equestrian and battle scenes from the Wars of Liberation of 1813 as well as from the Duke Brunswick Hussar Regiment No. 17 and the Duke Brunswick Infantry Regiment No. 92 , which fought in the Franco-German War from 1870 to 1871 or from the Brunswick Reserve Infantry Regiment Regiment No. 208 , which was deployed during the First World War . He also illustrated writings about these events. He lived in Weimar from 1889, where most of his works were created. He also painted landscape pictures with motifs from the Harz and Thuringia as well as scenes from hunting, at court or in the country. Eschwege also produced templates for the school books of the Velhagen & Klasing publishing house between 1892 and 1904.

family

Von Eschwege had been married to Elisabeth (née Woltze, 1861–1928), with whom he had two sons, since October 10, 1885.

1. Hermann von Eschwege (* 1886)
2. Anneliese (* 1887)
3. Reinhard von Eschwege (1893–1941)
4. Irmgard (* 1900)

Works (selection)

Baptism by fire of the Braunschweig Infantry Regiment No. 92 : Street fight in Roselies . Depiction of the fighting in Roselies ,Belgium; published 1914 in thebooklet collection publishedby Martin Bücking The Braunschweiger in the World War 1914-1918 , a German propaganda series .

painting

• Attack by the Ducal Braunschweig Hussar Regiment No. 17 near Flavigny on August 16, 1870 or equestrian fight near Mars-la-tour - battle scene of the battle of Mars-la-Tour from the Franco-Prussian War (oil painting around 1882/83)
• Attack of the Duke Brunswick Infantry Regiment No. 92 at La Tuilerie in front of Le Mans on January 11, 1871 - battle scene of the Battle of Le Mans from the Franco-German War (oil painting around 1882/83)
• Crossing over the Save near Belgrade - triptych from 1915. It shows the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 208 crossing the Save near Belgrade that year. It is exhibited in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum . The left wing shows the crossing of the Save with pontoons, which took place at dawn on October 7, 1915. The troops from Braunschweig, Celle and Hildesheim consisted of volunteers and were instrumental in the conquest of Belgrade. The picture also shows the high losses that the regiment suffered when crossing the river, as the pontoons offered little protection. The picture in the middle shows the storming of Banovo on October 8th and the city of Belgrade in the background. The bombardment of the city is finally described in the picture on the right. The triptych has a similar structure to a church altarpiece .

Illustrations in publications

• Rennig Ribbentrop: Into France with the blacks! Memories of a Braunschweig officer from the war of 1870/71. O. Salle, Berlin 1901, OCLC 238868983
• Rudolf Mackensen von Astfeld: Brunswick Hussars in enemy land. Memories from the war of 1870/71. O. Salle, Berlin 1902, OCLC 833141726 .
• Braunschweiger Hussars present a French reconnaissance - painting depicting a scene from the Franco-Prussian War. It appeared as the title page of the first issue of the series The Braunschweiger im Weltkriege , published by Appelhans & Comp. published in Braunschweig ( picture ).
• Ziethen Hussars on the patrol ride in the winter of 1870 - An illustration was made for the magazine Die Gartenlaube in 1883 after a painting .

literature

• von Eschwege, Elmar, painter. In: The spiritual Germany at the end of the 19th century. Encyclopedia of German Spiritual Life in Biographical Sketches. Volume 1 The visual artists. Leipzig, Berlin 1898, OCLC 68695439 .
• Eschwege, FA Elmar von . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 27 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Eschwege, Elmar von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961.
• Dankmar Trier: Eschwege, Elmar von . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 35, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22775-2 .

Web links

Commons : Elmar von Eschwege  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Ziethen Hussars on the patrol ride in the winter of 1870  - sources and full texts

• When driving grain on dokbase.digicult-museen.net (painting)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Eilmar von Eschwege ( memento from October 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on Stammreihen.de
2. ↑ 04123 Eilmar von Eschwege In: Matrikelbuch 1841-1884.
3. ↑ List of Dachau artists on kunsthandel-dachau.de.
4. ^ Weimar: Eschwege von, Eilmar, Prof., painter on wladimir-aichelburg.at.
5. ^ Wulf Otte, Heike Pöppelmann, Ole Zimmermann: 1914… terrible warlike times (= publications by the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum. 116). Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2014, ISBN 978-3-944939-04-9 , p. 43.