Ernst Ewald
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Ernst Deodat Paul Ferdinand Ewald (born March 17, 1836 in Berlin ; † December 30, 1904 there ) was a German painter.
Life
Ewald came from a banking family and initially studied medicine and natural sciences at the University of Bonn , where he was active in the Corps Palatia . However, at the age of 19 he switched to painting and became a student of Carl Steffeck in Berlin . From 1856 to 1863 he lived in Paris, where he was a student of Thomas Couture for a year . In 1864 he traveled to Italy, where he studied painting from the 15th century, and in the same year he exhibited his picture of the Seven Deadly Sins at the Berlin academic exhibition . In 1865 he settled in Berlin. From 1868 Ewald taught at the educational establishment of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin , of which he was one of the founders. In 1874 he became director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin and in 1880, after the death of Martin Gropius , director of the educational establishment.
He created frescoes for the Villa Ravené , the paintings from 1869 in the library of the Red City Hall and wax paintings with scenes from the Nibelungen saga in the transverse hall of the National Gallery . The glass windows in the Martin-Gropius-Bau (1881) and the mosaics he designed in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Mausoleum in Potsdam from 1888 to 1890 have been preserved . For Friedrich III. Ewald was active as a consultant on artistic issues during his time as Crown Prince. In 1873/74 he gave drawing lessons to his sons, Prince Wilhelm and Heinrich . Ewald's own work is primarily characterized by the orientation towards classical models and the preservation and communication of historical forms and techniques.
Ernst Ewald died at the age of 68 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling carried out on this cemetery by the National Socialists in 1938/39, Ewald's remains were reburied in the Stahnsdorf south-west cemetery.
Fonts
- Color illustrations of old and new times. Colored decorations from 15th to 19th Century. Four volumes, Wasmuth, Berlin 1889–1896.
literature
- Lisa Hackmann: Ewald, Ernst (Deodat Paul Ferdinand) In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (Hrsg.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015.
- Ernst Ewald . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 35, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22775-2 , p. 461 f.
- Victor Alexander Carus : Ewald, Ernst (Deodat Paul Ferdinand) . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 116 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 14/234.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 301, 467.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ewald, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ewald, Ernst Deodat Paul Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1904 |
| Place of death | Berlin |