Ernst Benedikt Kietz

Ernst Benedikt Kietz (* 1815 in Leipzig ; † 31 May 1890 in Dresden ) was a German painter and lithographer .

Life

Ernst Benedikt Kietz was the son of a senior postal secretary and a former actress. His two younger brothers Gustav Adolph Kietz (1824–1908) and Theodor Kietz (1829–1898) both became sculptors . From 1831 to 1838 Ernst Benedikt Kietz studied at the Art Academy in Dresden under Johann Friedrich Matthäi , Johann Carl Rößler and Ernst Rietschel . In 1832, 1834 and 1838 he took part in the Dresden Academy exhibitions with portraits of the Dresden Society. From 1838 he was a student in Paul Delaroche's studio in Paris. He became friends with Richard Wagner , who in 1840 dedicated a piano piece in E major (WWV 64, so-called album sheet for Ernst Benedikt Kietz, "Song without Words") to him. He took part in the Paris Salon several times from 1841 to 1857 . Via Malta he traveled to Constantinople in 1853 , on the way back he was based in Athens and Rome , and from around 1858 in Épernay . In 1870 he returned to Germany. When the Franco-Prussian War broke out , he was a drawing teacher for the daughters of Frederick VIII of Schleswig-Holstein (including the later Empress Auguste Viktoria ) at Primkenau Castle (Silesia). Then based in Dresden, he was the drawing teacher of Princess Mathilde of Saxony .

Works

Richard Wagner in Paris in 1842, drawing by Ernst Benedikt Kietz

• Heaven full of haunted Hoffmann figures, Wagner plays according to Minna's notes, around 1840, drawing, whereabouts unknown (Köhler 2001, p. 582)
• Title page to the composition Deux grenadiers by Richard Wagner, dedicated to Heine, 1840, lithograph based on his own drawing, whereabouts unknown (TB)
• Portrait de Mme W ..., pencil drawing, whereabouts unknown (Salon 1841, No. 1113)
• Portrait de M. Paul Delaroche, drawing, whereabouts unknown (Salon 1842, No. 1062)
• Richard Wagner, 1842, pencil on paper, 33 × 26 cm, signed lower right: E. B: Kietz fec. Paris (Jan 40) June 1842, Bayreuth, private property
• Richard Wagner and his half-sister Cäcilie Avenarius, around 1844, whereabouts unknown (photographic images in the possession of the Richard Wagner Memorial, Bayreuth; attribution controversial, see Geck 1970, p. 129, previously in: Otto Daube (ed.) : "I don't write any more symphonies." Richard Wagner's apprenticeship years according to the documents received, Cologne 1960, p. 21)
• Eduard Avenarius, 1844, charcoal on brownish paper, 41.2 × 29.5 cm, signed below: E. Kietz .; left: Paris Nov 28, 1844 5 p.m., Inv. No. K 593, Leipzig, City History Museum

literature

• Lisa Hackmann: Kietz, Julius Ernst Benedikt . In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 140-143 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• Nicholas Vazsonyi (Ed.): The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014, ISBN 9781107004252 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death register Dresden II, 1890, entry No. 1317