Engelbert Seibertz (painter)

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Engelbert Seibertz (born April 20, 1813 in Brilon , † October 2, 1905 in Arnsberg ) was a German portrait and history painter .

Oil painting by the entrepreneur Friedrich Wilhelm Brökelmann and his family from 1850
The fisherwoman from the Chiemsee (around 1850)

Engelbert Seibertz was born in 1813 as the eldest son of Johann Suibert Seibertz (1788–1871), the nestor of the Westphalian regional history. His nephew was the eponymous Berlin church architect Engelbert Seibertz jun.

After an only moderately successful school career, Engelbert went to the Düsseldorf Art Academy at the age of 17 , where Carl Friedrich Lessing , Wilhelm von Schadow , Peter von Cornelius and Theodor Hildebrandt were his teachers. Seibertz is therefore assigned to the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

His first published work was a drawing of the Bruchhauser stones , his picture of the Olsberger Hütte is today considered the oldest preserved industrial picture in Westphalia.

Seibertz moved to the Royal Art Academy in Munich in 1832 , where he met Wilhelm von Kaulbach , the court painter to King Ludwig I. During this time, 74 works of art were created, including frescoes in the Maximilianeum .

From 1835 to 1841 Seibertz lived in Brilon again and made sketches and illustrations for Goethe's Faust . From 1841 to 1848 he worked in Prague. From 1850 to 1870 he lived in Munich again. He created 300 works for the Bavarian King Maximilian II , including two monumental frescoes in the Maximilianeum , one of which has been preserved there. The oil sketch for this is preserved in Arnsberg. Seibertz designed the stained glass windows for the cathedral in Glasgow (which, however, were removed during the Second World War and have not yet been reinstalled). In 1870 the painter returned to Arnsberg. From the last years of his work there are still 140 pictures, mainly portraits of well-known Sauerland families.

Seiberts was a member of the Munich Association for Christian Art . He is buried in the Eichholzfriedhof in Arnsberg.

Picture gallery

  • Emma Viebahn
    Landfort (Netherlands), 1870

  • Emma Viebahn
    Template for the painting

  • Albert Luyken sr.
    Landfort, 1870

  • Albertina and Helene Luyken
    Landfort, 1870

  • Carl and Emma Luyken
    Landfort, 1870

  • Albert Luyken Jr.
    Landfort, 1870

literature

  • Andrea Teuscher: Engelbert Seibertz 1813–1905 . Life and work of a Westphalian portrait and history painter. Bonifatius, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-89710-308-7 .
  • Andrea Teuscher: Engelbert Seibertz (1813–1905) . In: Friedrich Gerhard Hohmann (Hrsg.): Westfälische Lebensbilder 19 (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia ). New series 16. Aschendorff, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-402-15117-4 , p. 71-105 .

Web links

Commons : Engelbert Seibertz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association for Christian Art in Munich (ed.): Festgabe in memory of the 50th year. Anniversary. Lentner'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Munich 1910, p. 89.
personal data
SURNAME Seibertz, Engelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Brilon
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1905
Place of death Arnsberg