Emil Rieck

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Emil Rieck around 1909

Emil Rieck (born April 24, 1852 in Hamburg , † November 11, 1939 in Moritzburg ) was a German landscape , genre and theater painter . The signature of E. Rieck is found in the following link.

Emil Rieck around 1892

Life

Emil Rieck was initially an assistant painter at the city ​​theater in Hamburg. At the age of 17, the young Rieck applied to the Dresdner Schauspielhaus, where he got a job as an assistant painter in the summer of 1869. His teacher was the local court theater painter Günter Ludwig Walter, whose position as director in the painting room he took over four years later; see Lit. A. Thiem: Emil Rieck - painter in Moritzburg. - In 1875 he became a theater painter at the Albert Theater in Dresden. In 1879, the later director Nikolaus Graf von Seebach brought him to the Royal Court Theater , today the Dresden Semper Opera, as a theater and court painter and decoration painter . - As a theater painter, Rieck created numerous and much admired decorations for plays and operas. For example, he designed an impressive stage setting for the Richard Strauss opera Salome , which premiered on December 9, 1905 . It was therefore not surprising that other theaters were also interested in Rieck's work, such as the Vienna Court Opera , for which the painter made decoration designs. - Rieck had been a member of the Saxon Art Association in Dresden since 1886 .

Lauterbach Castle, estate around 1903.

Emil Rieck's pictures are now traded in numerous German and foreign auction houses. To name a few, please refer to the attached link. Among other things, there are some paintings in Moritzburg that are in private hands. In addition, Rieck pictures hang in the Moritzburg city administration in the local town hall in the Schloßallee and with Prince Alexander of Prussia , who at the time acquired a watercolor from the artist. Around 1900 Rieck created two views of Lauterbach Castle , an enlargement of an original painting of which was handed over to the local support association in 2014.

But Rieck also worked as an illustrator . He drew postcards from the series: Bazaar for the suffering childhood for the printing and publishing house CC Meinhold & Söhne , Dresden . This was under the protectorate of Her Majesty the Queen of Saxony . The artist also drew postcards for the Universal Postal Union . One example shows such a card that he painted for the Dresden Press Association on the occasion of its 1904 ball festival, "Erika with champagne glass" , the cheerful picture of a lady in a big ball gown.

Emil Rieck decided in 1910 to give up his profession as a theater painter and retire into private life. At this time he left Dresden to settle in Moritzburg. From 1913 he lived in his newly built house in today's August-Bebel-Strasse number eight. - During the Moritzburg time, the painter was able to fully pursue his predilection for landscape, animal and genre painting. Most of his works were created during this time. - Emil Rieck died on November 11, 1939 and was buried in the family grave of the Moritzburg cemetery. The grave complex is located in the north-western corner of the cemetery, right next to the family grave of the marine painter Alexander Kircher, who died in the same year .

Honors

In Moritzburg, Emil-Rieck-Strasse was named after the painter.

Works (selection)

  • A great deer. Oil on canvas, 107 × 74 cm.
  • Huts on the lakefront. Oil on canvas, 32.5 × 46 cm.
  • Village idyll on the Cunnersdorfer Bach. Oil on cardboard, around 1910, 47 × 30.5 cm.
  • Florence . Watercolor, around 1900, 35.6 × 21.8 cm.
  • Dresden forest with group of fallow deer, in the distance view of Moritzburg. Oil on canvas, 39 × 51 cm.
  • Stechlin . Oil on canvas, around 1900, 49 × 70 cm.
  • Provision of horses in a summer village. Oil on canvas, 34 × 83 cm.
  • Autumnal Dresden park landscape . Oil on canvas, around 1909, 64 × 42.5 cm.
  • View of Dresden. Oil on canvas, around 1900–1925, 52 × 41 cm.
  • Capital stag leads doe. Oil on canvas, 53 × 75 cm.

literature

  • A. Thiem: Emil Rieck - Painter in Moritzburg (Ed .: Municipal administration Moritzburg and Steinbach), Moritzburg monthly newspaper, Steinbach 1998, 95, p. 16

Individual evidence

  1. ^ KG Saur Verlag, General Artists' Lexicon (AKL), Munich / Leipzig 2008, Register AZ, Volume 10, 2nd ext. Ed. P. 336
  2. ^ Signature of Emil Rieck
  3. ↑ Piper's Enzyklopädie des Musiktheater, Munich / Zurich 1997, register volume 1–6, p. 592
  4. ^ Emil Rieck - painter in Moritzburg BSZ Baden-Württemberg, SWB online catalog.
  5. ^ Rieck was a member of the Saxon Art Association.
  6. ↑ German and foreign auction houses where paintings by E. Rieck were auctioned
  7. ^ Watercolor by Emil Rieck in the possession of Prince Alexander von Prussen
  8. ↑ Article in the Sächsische Zeitung from September 17, 2014 - Moritzburger paints the castle
  9. ^ Postcard for the benefit of the “Bazaar for the Suffering Childhood”.
  10. ^ "Erika with champagne glass" , ball festival of the Dresden Press Association 1904
  11. ↑ Moritzburger Gemeindeblatt dated November 1, 2015, p. 15, Streets and squares in the village of Moritzburg II  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.moritzburg.de  
  12. ^ A. Thiem, Emil Rieck - painter in Moritzburg , 95/1998 article from the monthly newspaper of the municipal administrations Moritzburg and Steinbach.
  13. ↑ Grave of the Rieck family in the Moritzburg cemetery
personal data
SURNAME Rieck, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape, genre and theater painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1939
Place of death Moritzburg