Ernst Ferdinand Oehme

Portrait of the painter Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, painting by Johann Karl Ulrich Bähr ( Kügelgenhaus - Museum of the Dresden Romanticism , Dresden)

Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (born April 23, 1797 in Dresden ; † April 10, 1855 there ) was a painter attributable to German Romanticism .

Life

The grave of Ernst Ferdinand Oehme in the old Annenfriedhof in Dresden.

After self-taught beginnings, Ernst Ferdinand Oehme was accepted at the Dresden Art Academy in 1819 and in the same year he was a student of the Norwegian painter Johan Christian Clausen Dahl , who had settled in Dresden after studying in Copenhagen. Dahl introduced Oehme to his friend Caspar David Friedrich . Together with Friedrich's student Johann August Heinrich , Oehme devoted himself to studying and experiencing nature in the area around Dresden, in particular Saxon Switzerland . The work Waldinneres (1822) was to become a result of these studies .

At the Academy Exhibition in 1821, Oehme surprised everyone with the painting Cathedral in Winter . The work depicts monks who go through the snow of the winter night into a church in Gothic style - towards a high altar lit by candles. The influence of Frederick can be felt in this subject (cf. his Abbey in the Eichwald , 1809/1810).

Since the 1830s, Oehme broke away from Friedrich's role model and devoted himself to depicting landscapes that are more realistic and less laden with symbols. Oehme died in Dresden in 1855, his grave is in the Alten Annenfriedhof in Dresden's southern suburb . His son Erwin also became a painter.

Works

The following works can be found in the New Masters Gallery of the Dresden State Art Collections :

• Cathedral in Winter , 1821
• Forest interior , 1822
• Procession in the fog , 1828 (closely related to Friedrich in the depiction of a foggy landscape with a procession of monks following a cross disappearing in the fog)
• Colditz Castle , 1828 (one work in a small series of views of Saxon castles, painted in the years 1827–30)
• View from St. Afra to Meissen Cathedral , around 1828/29
• Moonlit night on the Gulf of Salerno , 1827
• Villa d'Este in Tivoli , 1833
• Chapel by the lake , 1837
• View of Saxon Switzerland , 1840 ( Kupferstich-Kabinett )
• Mountain Chapel in Winter , 1850 (Kupferstich-Kabinett)

In the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin is:

• Scharfenberg Castle at night , 1827

In the Gotha Castle Museum you will find:

• The Greifensteine ​​in the Saxon Ore Mountains , 1840

Illustrations (selection)

• In: ABC book for small and large children / drawn by Dresden artists. With stories and songs by R. Reinick and songs by Ferdinand Hiller. Wigand, Leipzig 1845 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf ).

Picture gallery

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  Cathedral in Winter , 1821
  ( New Masters Gallery , Dresden)

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  Naudersberg Castle in Tyrol , watercolor, pencil and pen, 1825
  ( Wallraf-Richartz-Museum , Cologne)

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  Procession in the Fog , 1828 (Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden)

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  Landscape near Maxen with a view of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains , 1838
  ( Chemnitz Art Collections )

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  Tree study from the Priesnitz-Grund near Dresden , pencil drawing, 1844

literature

• Hermann Arthur Lier:  Oehme, Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 208-210.
• Gerd Spitzer (Hrsg.): Painting of Romanticism in the Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister Dresden . Seemann, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-363-00654-3 .
• Ulrich Bischoff (Ed.): Ernst Ferdinand Oehme 1759–1855 - A Romantic Landscape Painter. Exhibition catalog. In the appendix the catalog raisonné of the paintings and pictorial drawings created by Hans-Joachim Neidhardt. Dresden art auction house Neumeister, Dresden 1997.
• Hans Joachim Neidhardt:  Oehme, Ernst Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 432 ( digitized version ).
• Norbert Wolf: Painting of Romanticism. Taschen, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-8228-7121-4 .
• Claude Keisch (Ed.): The Old National Gallery Berlin. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52313-7 .

Web links

Commons : Ernst Ferdinand Oehme  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ernst Ferdinand Oehme in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Ernst Ferdinand Oehme at Zeno.org .