Ernest Preyer

Ernest Julius Preyer (born August 9, 1842 in Manchester , † April 29, 1917 in Düsseldorf ) was a painter and author of art textbooks.

Life

Preyer was the son of the merchant Heinrich Wilhelm Thierry Preyer (born November 23, 1810 - August 12, 1890) and his wife Adele Klara Marie (born Kutter, August 23, 1820 - April 29, 1889). His siblings were the scientist Wilhelm Thierry Preyer and Emmy Henriette Wilhelmine Marie Preyer (born July 16, 1847 - September 14, 1864 ⚭ Axel Erich Freiherr von Rosenkrantz). The artist always signed with "Ernest Preyer" and was a member of the artists' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf.

Already during his studies in Karlsruhe he became known through his teachers Hans Fredrik Gude and Carl Friedrich Lessing with the peculiarities of the painting methods practiced in Düsseldorf . Between 1874 and 1877 he deepened it as a private student of Wilhelm Sohn and Hugo Crola . Travel to Italy induced Preyer to prefer landscape motifs with ancient ruins. In Rome he also carried out studies on the “relationship of tones and colors” together with his brother. At the beginning of the 1890s, Preyer became the owner of house No. 3 in Alleestraße , not far from the then art gallery .

On September 14, 1872, Preyer married "Agnes" Laura Carolina (born June 24, 1854), daughter of General Doctor Wilhelm Busch and his wife Agnes (née Mitscherlich) in Bonn . The following children were born from the marriage:

Wilhelm Dietrich Cornelius Preyer (born May 6, 1877 - March 19, 1959) became a lieutenant in the 2nd Upper Alsatian Field Artillery Regiment No. 51 and later professor at the Albertus University in Königsberg
Agnes Henriette Emmy Elisabeth Adelheid Peryer, called Ada (born October 16, 1878) ⚭ 1911 Arthur Erich Georg Haseloff
Otto Richard Ernst Edwin Preyer (born January 16, 1881) became a lawyer and interpreter in Tsingtau in China
Marie Agnes Johanna Helene Preyer (born June 30, 1888)

Via de Fornaci in Rome , 1900

Works (selection)

The Assumption of Mary (1881)
Large arrangement of roses (1897)

Fonts

Johann Wilhelm Völker : The art of painting: according to a purely artistic, easily comprehensible method. Revised and reworked by Ernest Preyer, Edition 3, Verlag Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1891.

literature

Preyer, Ernest. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 325 ( archive.org ).
Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer: Preyer, Ernest . In: General Artist Lexicon . 5th edition. tape 3 : Lhérie – Quittry . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 491 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Preyer, Ernest . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 393 .

Web links

Literature by and about Ernest Preyer in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Bernhard Koerner: Preyer . In: German gender book (Genealogical manual of bourgeois families.) . CA Starke, Görlitz 1907, p. 398-400 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
^ Wilhelm Preyer: The relationship of tones and colors . In: Jena magazine for medicine and science . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1870, p. 378–388 , here p. 386 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Alleestraße 3, Preyer, Ernest, Maler E (= owner) , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf, Part II, 1892, p. 399
^ Civil status of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf. Births: October 16, Agnes Henr. Emmy Elisab. Adelh., T. d. Painter Ernest Preyer, Duisburgerstr. , in Düsseldorfer Volksblatt (No. 281), from October 18, 1878
↑ Haseloff, Arthur Erich Georg. In: New German Biography . Volume 8: Hartmann – Heske. Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Historical Commission, Duncker & Humblot Publishing House, Berlin 1968, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00016409-3 , p. 23, here called Ada ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
↑ Ernest Preyer . In: Catalog of excellent paintings by older and more recent masters, copper engravings, watercolors, framed splendid leaves, splendid works, etc. Cologne 1896, p. 42 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Ernest Preyer . In: Paintings from the 16th to 20th centuries, old handicrafts in silver, bronze, copper, tin, iron, porcelain, faience, stoneware, clay, sculptures in wood, stone, ivory, miscellaneous, antique furniture, oriental carpets . Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne 1936, p. 31 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Preyer, Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Preyer, Ernest Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English-German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 9, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH	Manchester
DATE OF DEATH	April 29, 1917
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[Genealogie-1] Bernhard Koerner: Preyer . In: German gender book (Genealogical manual of bourgeois families.) . CA Starke, Görlitz 1907, p. 398-400 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

[2] Wilhelm Preyer: The relationship of tones and colors . In: Jena magazine for medicine and science . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1870, p. 378–388 , here p. 386 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[3] Alleestraße 3, Preyer, Ernest, Maler E (= owner) , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf, Part II, 1892, p. 399

[4] Civil status of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf. Births: October 16, Agnes Henr. Emmy Elisab. Adelh., T. d. Painter Ernest Preyer, Duisburgerstr. , in Düsseldorfer Volksblatt (No. 281), from October 18, 1878

[5] Haseloff, Arthur Erich Georg. In: New German Biography . Volume 8: Hartmann – Heske. Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Historical Commission, Duncker & Humblot Publishing House, Berlin 1968, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00016409-3 , p. 23, here called Ada ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).

[6] Ernest Preyer . In: Catalog of excellent paintings by older and more recent masters, copper engravings, watercolors, framed splendid leaves, splendid works, etc. Cologne 1896, p. 42 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[7] Ernest Preyer . In: Paintings from the 16th to 20th centuries, old handicrafts in silver, bronze, copper, tin, iron, porcelain, faience, stoneware, clay, sculptures in wood, stone, ivory, miscellaneous, antique furniture, oriental carpets . Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne 1936, p. 31 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).