Ernst Christian Pfannschmidt

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Ernst Christian Pfannschmidt (born November 3, 1868 in Berlin ; † September 28, 1949 in Bad Lobenstein ) was a German painter and illustrator.

Life

Pfannschmidt was one of eleven children of the painter Carl Gottfried Pfannschmidt and his wife Johanna († 1912). The theologian and local researcher Martin Eckart Pfannschmidt (1861-1947) and the sculptor Friedrich Pfannschmidt (1864-1914) were his brothers.

At first he was a student of his father and then studied from 1885 to 1890 at the Berlin Academy and from 1890 to 1895 at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf . Here he was a master student of Eduard von Gebhardt . With the Rome Scholarship of the Prussian Academy of the Arts , he stayed at the Villa Strohl-Fern in Rome from 1898 to 1900 , followed by trips through Italy until 1906 , and then took up residence in Berlin. In 1912 he received a professorship at the Berlin Academy and in 1915 became a full member of the Prussian Academy of Arts . Hermann Kirchberger is one of his master students . In 1944 he was placed on the God-gifted list of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry .

Ernst Christian Pfannschmidt, The Resurrection of Christ, 1891, Pauluskirche Remscheid-Hasten

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Interior of the Assumption Church with lunette pictures by Ernst Christian Pfannschmidt

Pfannschmidt worked primarily as a history painter and church painter. He made altarpieces and mosaic designs for churches in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Kiel, Essen and Rome. His lunette pictures on the life of Jesus, executed in mosaic by Puhl & Wagner for the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, have been destroyed; its counterpart in the Church of the Assumption (Jerusalem) has been preserved.

In 1933 he received first prize in the competition "for the painting of the large ballroom in Schöneberg Town Hall" (by the Berlin Artists' Association ).

Works in public space

literature

  • Ernst Christian Pfannschmidt . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 523 .
  • Ernst Christian Pfannschmidt . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 580 .
  • Ernst Christian Pfannschmidt . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 342 .
  • Helmut Geisert, Elisabeth Moortgat (Red.): Walls made of colored glass. The archive of the United Workshops for Mosaic and Glass Painting Puhl & Wagner, Gottfried Heinersdorff . Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-927873-01-2 (catalog for the exhibition from December 8, 1989 to January 21, 1990 in the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin; Contemporary Museum . No. 9), p. 139f.

Web links

Commons : Ernst Christian Pfannschmidt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prussian Academy of the Arts (PrAdK 0729). Studio rental in Rome for scholarship holders of the Academy (Villa Strohl-Fern) - reports on the work, rent payment, etc. The following scholarship holders or guests in Rome: Ernst Pfannschmidt 1898 to 1900.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Krüger: Rome and Jerusalem: Church building ideas of the Hohenzollern in the 19th century. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1995 (Acta humaniora) ISBN 978-3-05-002427-1 , p. 105
  3. ↑ Article: “Competition for the Schöneberg Town Hall”. In: Vossische Zeitung, No. 480, October 8, 1933
personal data
SURNAME Pfannschmidt, Ernst Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfannschmidt, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1949
Place of death Bad Lobenstein