Ernst Helbig

View of Roßla and the Kyffhäuser

Ernst Helbig (born February 10, 1802 in Stolberg (Harz) , † July 26, 1866 in Mansfeld ) was a painter of the Romantic period and especially the landscape of the Harz .

biography

Ernst Helbig was the fifth child of the court gardener Johann Friedrich Helbig (1765–1814) and his wife Johanne Maria Christiane. After finishing school, Helbig learned the profession of art gardener in Rottleberode from around 1816 to 1819 . Probably around 1823/24 he began his artistic training in Dresden - initially as an autodidact . On the recommendation of the lecturer Carl August Richter, the father of Ludwig Richter , Ernst Helbig studied at the Dresden Art Academy from January 1825 . In addition to the academy, he also visited the studio of the landscape painter Johann C. Dahl . Here Helbig and his fellow student Christian Friedrich Gille were among the first Dahl students who did not come from Saxony. In Dresden he also met Georg Heinrich Crola . In 1830 Helbig returned to the Harz region, namely to Halberstadt . In the period up to 1834, paintings and lithographs of the towns of Halberstadt, Ilsenburg , Wernigerode and Quedlinburg and their respective surroundings were created. An oil painting from Ilsestein was also created during this time. In mid-1843 Helbig moved to Nöschenrode near Wernigerode, where he lived until 1861.

In 1845 Ernst Helbig met the poet and narrator Friedrich von Suckow , who had helped the painter in his permanent economic hardship through commissions and direct donations of money. Similarly, made Count Henry of Stolberg-Wernigerode an intensive, long-standing patronage .

Ernst Helbig's artistic work ended in 1861. He spent the last years of his life in a home of the Order of St. John in Mansfeld . His work from the period from 1828 to 1861 comprises around a hundred paintings, but only half of their locations are known.

Public dedications

• A footbridge in the lower Ilsetal , very close to Zanthierplatz , not far from Ilsenburg , is named after Ernst Helbig.
• In his former place of residence Nöschenrode, a bridge over the Zillierbach bears his name.

exhibition

• 2002: Solo exhibition in Wernigerode Castle for the artist's 200th birthday.

literature

• Doris Derdey: Ernst Helbig - traces of a painter . Edited by the Foundation for Palaces, Castles and Gardens of the State of Saxony-Anhalt . Janos Stekovics, Halle an der Saale 2002, ISBN 3-932863-31-3 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

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

• Literature by and about Ernst Helbig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Exhibition flyer 2002