Emil Loewenthal

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Emil Löwenthal's gravestone in the Jewish cemetery in Bad Ems

Emil Löwenthal (born 1835 in Jarotschin near Posen ; died July 31, 1896 in Bad Ems ) was a German portrait , genre and history painter .

Löwenthal comes from a German-Jewish family; he first lived in Berlin, where he exhibited from 1860 to 1884; Theodor Fontane mentions him in his diaries. In 1860 he was a laureate of the Michael Beers Foundation. As a history painter, Emil Löwenthal u. a. the visit of Pope Paul III. painted at Benvenuto Cellini in prison. During this time he was also the target of anti-Semitic hostility in the phase of the anti-Semitic petition and the war on images and culture . These also came from the art critic and humorist Gustav Heil , who in his review of the Berlin Academic Exhibition of 1876 in his review of the Pope Paul Cellini painting by Emil Löwenthal mockingly referred to the dogma of infallibility:

“Löwenthal is also someone who pulls up the opportunity at the forelock to throw a Pope into dungeon, even if it is someone else's: Pope Paul III. visits Benvenuto Cellini in prison. "

In later years Löwenthal lived in Rome, where he also taught and was active in the German Artists' Association. After his death at the end of July 1896 in the spa town of Bad Ems, Prince Georg of Prussia planned to erect a memorial to his friend Löwenthal, which was to be erected in the Israelite cemetery in Ems.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Giacomo Meyerbeer , Heinz Becker, Gudrun Becker: 'Correspondence and Diaries 1860-1864' . 1959, p. 699 f.
  2. ↑ Thieme-Becker, XXIII, 328
  3. ^ Fontane: Complete Works, Volume 2; Volume 23. Nymphenburger, 1970, p. 277
  4. ^ Martin Warnke: Court artist . Cologne, DuMont, 1985, p. 326
  5. ↑ Journalism, literature and theater have become more or less the domain of the Jews and offspring of Jews, but they are also taking over music and painting more and more, and their influence is unmistakable in these areas too. Quoted from Der Kulturkampf, Volume 2 . 1880. p. 251.
  6. ↑ Friedrich Gross: Jesus, Luther and the Pope in the picture battle 1871 to 1918: on the history of painting during the imperial era . Jonas, 1989
  7. ^ Jewish cemetery Bad Ems in alemannia-judaica
personal data
SURNAME Löwenthal, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Jarotschin
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1896
Place of death Bad Ems