Ernst Roeber

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Gravestone of the painter Ernst Roeber at the Nordfriedhof Düsseldorf (2019)

Ernst Roeber (born June 23, 1849 in Elberfeld , Rhine Province , † November 2, 1915 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Roeber was born as the son of the banker and writer Friedrich Roeber (1819–1901) in Elberfeld (today Wuppertal ). The father was an authorized signatory there and later a partner in the Von der Heydt, Kersten and Sons banking house . After he had attended the grammar school in Elberfeld (1858–1867) and passed the Abitur there, Ernst Roeber - like his younger brother Fritz (1851–1924) - received his artistic training at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . He also received private lessons from the painter Eduard Bendemann . From 1880 to 1901 he taught himself at the Düsseldorf Academy. On May 23, 1901, in Elberfeld, he married Helene Schlieper, née Baum (1846–1912), the widow of the industrialist Gustav Schlieper . That year he went to Berlin , but later returned to Düsseldorf. Roeber was a member of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft and the artists' association Malkasten .

Works (selection)

Storm on the Düppeler Schanzen 1864 , black and white photo of the mural from a publication around 1888
Cupid and Psyche , gouache on paper

Roeber mainly created allegories, history and battle pictures as well as decorative art. His work is assigned to Wilhelminism . As an illustrator, he worked for book publishers and magazines, including Die Gartenlaube .

  • Painting of spandrels and lunettes in the first Cornelius Hall of the Berlin National Gallery , 1874 to 1876, together with Eduard Bendemann, Rudolf Bendemann , Fritz Roeber and Wilhelm Beckmann
  • Attaque des Leutnants von Papen-Köningen from the Westphalian Uhlan Regiment No. 5 against French 2nd Hussars near Bolchen before Metz.
  • Wilhelm II in the uniform of the Gardes du Corps
  • Entry of the anti-king Wilhelm of Holland into Cologne
  • Entry of the Knights of the German Order into the Marienburg
  • Allegorical and ornamental wall decorations of the art exhibition and the textile and machine hall at the trade and art exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1880 , together with Carl Gehrts , Karl Rudolf Sohn and Fritz Roeber
  • Storming of the Düppeler Schanzen 1864. Mural in the Ruhmeshalle Berlin , 1888
  • Foundation stone laid for the city wall in 1313. Wall painting in the city council meeting room in Gdansk, between 1892 and 1898.
  • Introduction of Christianity in the Bergisches Land through the sermon of the Bergisch Apostle Suitbertus. Wall painting in the Bergisches Saal of the Elberfeld town hall , between 1901 and 1903
  • The defeat of the dynast Arnold von Elverfeld by Count Adolf von Berg in front of the city walls. Wall painting in the Bergisches Saal of the Elberfeld town hall, between 1901 and 1903
  • Workers laying cables in 1880. Six-meter-long monumental image for the Carlswerk in Cologne-Mülheim, Cologne City Museum
  • Cupid and Psyche. Gouache on paper
  • Cupids dance around a pole in a forest meadow

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics of the Gymnasium zu Elberfeld, p. 80, No. 279 ( online ).
  2. ^ Members of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft in 1890 , website in the portal wladimir-aichelburg.at , accessed on July 18, 2015.
  3. ↑ Inventory list of the Malkasten artists' association , PDF in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on July 18, 2015.
  4. ^ Christian Scholl: The painting of the first Cornelius room in the National Gallery Berlin (1874–1876). In: Christian Scholl, Anne-Katrin Sors (ed.): Before the paintings. Eduartd Bendemann draws . Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86395-083-5 , p. 185 ( Google Books )
  5. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art in particular in the XIX. Century. Düsseldorf 1902, p. 324.
  6. ↑ Thomas Großbölting: "In the realm of work". The representation of social order in the German industrial and trade exhibitions 1790–1914 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58128-7 , p. 357.
  7. ↑ Heinz-Toni Wappenschmidt: Studies on the equipment of the German town hall hall in the 19th century to 1918 . (= Habelt's dissertation prints, series art history. Volume 5). Verlag Rudolf Habelt, ISBN 978-3-7749-1770-5 , Bonn 1981, pp. 286 f., 331
personal data
SURNAME Roeber, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld , Rhine Province
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1915
Place of death Dusseldorf