Erich Nikutowski

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Erich Nikutowski (born November 8, 1872 in Düsseldorf , † January 5, 1921 in Kaub am Rhein ) was a German landscape painter , etcher and lithographer of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Postcard view of Kaub around 1900

Nikutowski was born in Düsseldorf as the son of the genre and battle painter Arthur Nikutowski , who was born in East Prussia . In 1880 his father became a teacher of anatomy at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , an office he held until his death in 1888. Erich Nikutowski studied painting at the Düsseldorf Academy under Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and Eugen Dücker . From 1899 to 1921 he lived in Kaub am Rhein, where he stayed in the “Zum Turm” hotel. There the Dücker pupil found his motifs: landscapes of the Rhine and its tributaries as well as village and city views. The pictures, which are often autumnal and melancholy, earned him the nickname "Painter of Autumn". Nikutowski's lithographs can be found in various editions of the art and culture magazine Die Rheinlande and in the stone drawings by German painters published by Wilhelm Schäfer in 1904.

The writer Hermann Harry Schmitz was a close friend of the painter, who was known as a “joker” in the Laetitia and Malkasten artists' associations, as well as at the round tables of artists and writers in Düsseldorf . Together with the painters Carl Becker , Theodor Funck , Heinrich Heimes and Claus Meyer , Nikutowski was one of the founders of the Association of 1899 , which split off from the Free Association of Düsseldorf Artists, founded in 1891 . In April 1921, the Cologne Art Association dedicated a memorial exhibition to the early deceased. The exhibitions in which Nikutowski was represented with his pictures during his lifetime include the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1909 and the Great Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1911 .

Works (selection)

Old port of Neuss with a view of St. Quirinus , around 1915
Old Düsseldorf
Summer village view
  • The old Rudesheim , 1908
  • Old port of Neuss with a view of St. Quirinus , around 1915, Clemens-Sels-Museum , Neuss
  • Old Düsseldorf
  • View of Neuss
  • Summer village view
  • House Dönhoff in Wengern with House Mallinckrodt
  • Village church
  • The Schnellenburg
  • Acquisitions in Hesse
  • I only want to live on the Rheine , lithography

literature

  • Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald : A conversation between Erich Nikutowski and Hanns Harry Schmitz . In: W. Bredehorn (Ed.): The German restaurants. Images from their past and present . Düsseldorf 1925, p. 76.

Web links

Commons : Erich Nikutowski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 233 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147.
  3. ↑ Cf. for example year 1904, volumes 8 and 9, overview of art supplements and full images ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on January 2, 2016
  5. ↑ Michael Matzigkeit: Literature on the Move. Writer and theater in Düsseldorf between 1900–1933 . Verlag Goethe-Buchhandlung Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 978-3-92433-123-8 , p. 24 f.
  6. ↑ Jasmin Grande: Das Rosenkranzchen (1909–1911) , website in the portal rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de , accessed on January 2, 2016
  7. ↑ Nicole Roth: How modern is the Düsseldorf School of Painting? In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 254, 261 footnote 28.
  8. ^ Kölnischer Kunstverein: 1915–1938 , website in the portal koenischerkunstverein.de , accessed on January 2, 2016.
  9. ^ Hans Schmidkunz: Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1909 . In: The Christian Art. Monthly for all areas of Christian art and art history as well as the entire art life . Sixth year, 1909–1910, Society for Christian Art, Munich 1909, p. 77.
  10. ^ Hermann Board : The Great Art Exhibition Düsseldorf 1911 . In: The art. Monthly books for free and applied arts , 23rd volume, XXVI. Volume 24 of September 15, 1911, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1911, p. 563.
  11. ↑ Eirich Nikutowski (1872–1921): Old port of Neuss with a view of St. Quirinus ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website in the portal clemens-sels-museum-neuss.de , accessed on January 3, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.clemens-sels-museum-neuss.de
personal data
SURNAME Nikutowski, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter, etcher and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1921
Place of death Kaub on the Rhine