Ernst Hildebrand (painter)

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Ernst Wilhelm Hildebrand (1855)

Ernst Wilhelm Hildebrand (born March 8, 1833 in Falkenberg ; † November 17, 1924 in Berlin ) was a German history and portrait painter.

Life

Hildebrand was the eldest son of the Falkenberg manor owner and later Sorau station master Carl Hildebrand and his wife Emma, ​​née Lemm. He was a student of Carl Steffeck in Berlin, where, apart from a one-year stay in Paris, he also worked afterwards. On November 10, 1875 he was appointed to the art school in Karlsruhe and on October 10, 1876 he was appointed professor of figure painting. He became a teacher for genre, history and portrait painting. Among his students there were Carl Röchling , Friedrich Kallmorgen and Pedro Weingärtner . At the suggestion of Anton von Werner , Hildebrand was appointed to succeed Carl Gussow at the Art Academy in Berlin in 1880 . However, he gave up teaching in Berlin in 1885 for health reasons. However, he remained a member of the Academy and was repeatedly elected Senator.

Hildebrand initially devoted himself exclusively to decorative painting, but then turned to genre painting , which mainly dealt with the figures of Luther and Queen Louise . In the nineties he put the emphasis on portrait painting . In these years, his pictures were characterized by effective coloring , in keeping with the taste of the times , but in some cases slipped into a routine salon art.

Hildebrand also worked for the court circles and painted, among others, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden as well as the German Crown Prince Friedrich III and his family. With a Tullia , which her team drives over the corpse of her father, he dared an attempt in the field of history painting in 1886 . In addition to pictures for literary works, such as a depiction of Gretchen in dungeon , he also created portraits of professors of his time, such as a portrait of the astronomer Arthur Auwers . His portrait of Karl August Möbius from 1895 is in the possession of the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Ernst Hildebrand's brother Max (1839–1910) was a precision mechanic and manufacturer of optical devices.

  • Ernst Wilhelm Hildebrand at the age of 54 (1887)

  • 80-year-old Hildebrand in the studio in front of his last large painting The Crucifixion of Christ (1913)

  • Late self-portrait (1914)

Works (selection)

  • Horse head (in Steffeck's studio), around 1857

  • Dreamy Angler, 1858

  • Gretchen in the dungeon , 1868

  • Crucifixion of Christ , 1910

  • Lady with a fan

  • Crown Prince Friedrich with his family (in front of the New Palace in Potsdam), 1882

  • Queen Luise, Countess Voss fleeing to Memel 1804 (1890)

  • Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon with the family (in the five-part Luther cycle 1891–1893)

  • 1855 self-portrait
  • 1858 dreamy fisherman
  • 1860 Bänkelsänger , Kunstverein, Berlin; lost
  • 1863 Water-scooping woman with child , v. Oppenheim, Cologne
  • 1865–1867 wall and ceiling paintings (including the escape of the Huguenots , Roman banquet ), Villa Ravené, Berlin; Loss of war
  • 1867 Annunciation to Mary , altar painting, Church in Sagan
  • 1870 portraits for the families Jaques and vd Osten, Berlin
  • 1871 Portrait of Frau vd Heyden, Berlin
  • 1873 Portrait of Frau Seelig (Medal Vienna 1873), Berlin
  • Decorative painting for the Passage, Berlin; Loss of war
  • 1873 Portrait of Frau Ravené, Berlin
  • 1875 portrait of the Minister v. Roggenbach, University of Strasbourg
  • 1875 mother and child , adults from Prince Heinrich of the Netherlands
  • 1875 Gretchen in dungeon , missing
  • 1876–1879 portraits of the wife and daughter Susanne
  • 1877 portraits of Dr. Bürklin and wife, Karlsruhe
  • 1878 portrait of Frau v. Seldeneck, Karlsruhe
  • 1880 portrait of Dr. A. Kreilsheim , Frankfurt a. M.
  • 1880 portrait of the Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden
  • 1881 Portrait of the Grand Duchess Luise von Baden
  • 1882 portrait of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia
  • 1882 Crown Prince Friedrich III with his family ; lost
  • 1885–1887 Tullia, daughter of Servius Tullius, drives her team over the body of her father
  • 1887–1891 Luther cycle , 7 parts, Aule des Städt. High school in Bielefeld
  • 1889 Queen Luise on the run to Memel ; lost
  • 1891 portrait of the violinist Joseph Joachim
  • 1894 portrait of Prof. Karl Möbius
  • 1894 portrait of Prof. Carl Becker
  • 1895 portrait of Prof. Blumner
  • Return of the King's German Legion in 1816
  • 1900 Portrait of Prof. Ernst Auwers
  • Wall painting ancient and modern architecture , auditorium of the Polytechnic Berlin-Charlottenburg; Loss of war
  • 1910 Crucifixion of Christ

Honors

  • 1873 Small medal from the World Exhibition in Vienna,
  • 1876 ​​Grand Ducal Professor of Baden,
  • 1878 Full member of the Royal Academy of Arts, Berlin,
  • 1880 Royal Prussian Professor,
  • 1887 Large gold medal for art, Berlin,
  • 1888 Award, Melbourne,
  • 1888 Small gold medal, Munich
  • 1891 award, London,
  • 1898 Red Eagle Order IV class,
  • 1900 Elected Senator of the Academy to succeed Professor Ludwig Knaus,
  • 1907 Order of the Red Eagle III. Class,

Hildebrand's works were used to illustrate books. As such are known

  • Adolf Kiepert : Hanover in words and pictures. Text by Adolf Kiepert, ed. from the Association for the Promotion of Tourism in Hanover, with 286 illustrations based on original paintings and original drawings by Diekmann, Fiermann, Professor Hammel , Professor [Ernst] Hildebrand, Professor Jordan, Ramberg , Professor Schaper, Stocks, Ulbrich , and based on original photographs Recordings, (reprint of the edition) Hannover, Kiepert, 1910, 2nd edition, Schlütersche, Hannover 1981, ISBN 3-87706-181-8 , p. 18.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adolf von Oechelhaeuser: History of the grossh. Baden Academy of Fine Arts ... G. Braunsche Hofbuchdruckerei, Karlsruhe 1904, p. 77 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - With illustration).
personal data
SURNAME Hildebrand, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hildebrand, Ernst Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkenberg (Heideblick)
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1924
Place of death Berlin