Ernst Würtenberger

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Portrait of a boy with apple. Braunenberg, 1902
Portrait of the poet Emil Strauss
"Züs Bünzlin preaches to the three comb makers". Woodcut. Illustration for Gottfried Keller : “ The three just comb makers ”, 1st edition, published in 1918
Illustration for Gottfried Keller: " Romeo and Juliet in the village ", published in 1919
Illustration for Gottfried Keller: “The three just comb makers”. 2nd edition, published 1920

Ernst Gustav Würtenberger (born October 23, 1868 in Steißlingen ; † February 5, 1934 in Karlsruhe ) was a German portrait and genre painter , graphic artist and art theorist and professor at the State Art School in Karlsruhe .

life and work

Ernst Würtenberger studied from 1888 to 1892 at the Munich Art Academy with Johann Caspar Herterich and Wilhelm von Diez . In 1892 he got to know works by Arnold Böcklin on a trip to Zurich , whereupon he went to Florence to study with Böcklin in the winter of 1894/95 . From 1896 to 1897 he was a master student of Ferdinand Keller at the Karlsruhe Art Academy . From 1898 he ran his own studio in Munich. In 1899 he met the Black Forest painter Hans Thoma , whose style can also be demonstrated in Würtenberger's work.

After his marriage, he first moved to Konstanz , and in 1902 to Zurich , where he made around 200 portraits of Zurich personalities as a portrait painter by 1921. The works of Ferdinand Hodler , which he got to know there, then had a strong influence on him. From 1902 he taught at the Zurich Luise Stadler School (women's art school). From 1905 Würtenberger also created woodcuts . From 1914 to 1921 he taught at the Zurich School of Applied Arts . From 1902 to 1921 Würtenberger was also a board member of the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (exhibition and collection committee) and advised the art collectors Gustav Henneberg and Richard Kisling , where he sponsored works from the artistic environment of Hodler, Félix Vallotton and Thoma.

1921 left Würtenberger and his family Zurich as it was in the wake of Gustav Wolf Professor of woodcut , illustration and composition at the Baden State Art School (now Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe was appointed), where he remained until his death in 1934 worked. As head of the lithography class at the academy, he advocated the appointment of Georg Scholz (1923 Würtenberger's assistant in the lithography class; 1924 head of a preparatory class) and Karl Hubbuch (1924 to 1925 assistant Würtenberger, probably on the recommendation of Scholz; 1925 head of a drawing class ).

Ernst Würtenberger is the father of the criminal law professor Thomas Würtenberger and the art historian Franzsepp Würtenberger as well as the grandfather of the constitutional lawyer Thomas Würtenberger and the former Freiburg district president Julian Würtenberger .

Honors

Ernst-Würtenberger-Strasse in Karlsruhe was named after him in 1964. Likewise a street in his birthplace Steißlingen, where on October 26, 1958 a memorial plaque was unveiled.

Known students

(no claim to completeness)

Fonts

  • Arnold Böcklin. Something about his way of creating, his technique and his person . Berlin: Dreililien, 1902.
  • Drawing, woodcut and illustration . Basel: Schwabe, 1919.
  • Hans Thoma. Records and observations . Zurich: Erlenbach, Munich: Rotapfel, 1924.
  • IAD Ingres . A representation of its form and its teaching . Basel: Schwabe, 1925.
  • Becoming a painter. Memories from Ernst Würtenberger . Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1936.
  • On the essence of the drawing . Karlsruhe: People and Time, 1948.

Exhibitions (selection)

1900 Solo exhibition in the Wessenberghaus, Konstanz ( Kunstverein )

1908 Exhibition of works by Swiss artists, Kunstverein im Haus Herwig, Frankfurt a. M.

1911 Great Berlin Art Exhibition , Berlin

1913 Large art exhibition, Royal Art Building on Schlossplatz , Stuttgart

1918 Exhibition of Swiss graphics in the premises of the Swedish Art Association, Stockholm

1923 Large German art exhibition Karlsruhe 1923, municipal exhibition hall on the fairground

1928 Solo exhibition in the rooms of the Kunstverein (Konvikt), Schaffhausen

1929 Solo exhibition Ernst Würtenberger Karlsruhe, Kunstverein Freiburg and Wessenberghaus Konstanz (Kunstverein)

1935 Memorial exhibition of Professor Ernst Würtenberger, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe and Wessenberghaus, Konstanz (Kunstverein).

1959 Ernst Würtenberger. Paintings, drawings, graphics. Exhibition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the artist's death, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

1960 Portraits, compositions and graphics by Ernst Würtenberger, Augustinermuseum Freiburg.

1993 Hans Sturzenegger and his painter friends, Museum zu Allerheiligen , Schaffhausen.

2005/06 The 1920s in Karlsruhe, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe

2009 artist friends on the Upper Rhine, Hohenkarpfen Art Museum , Hausen ob Verena

2010 artist brothers Würtenberger. Karl Maximilian (1872–1933) and Ernst (1868–1934), Stockach City Museum

2013/2014 The other modern age - art and artists in the countries on the Rhine 1900 to 1922, Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz u. a.

2017/18 Ernst Würtenberger. 1868-1934. A German painter in Switzerland. Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz, December 2, 2017 - April 1, 2018 (cat.).

literature

  • Franzsepp Würtenberger (arrangement): The graphic work of Ernst Würtenberger . (Writings from the Staatl. Kunsthalle Karlsruhe; 1), Karlsruhe, 1938
  • Elisabeth Stähelin: Zurich portrait painting in the 19th and early 20th centuries . Dissertation, University of Zurich, Affoltern am Albis, 1947
  • Franzsepp Würtenberger: Ernst Würtenberger 1868–1934 , in: Hegau 7, 1959, pp. 86–92
  • Franzsepp Würtenberger: A walk through the Braunenberg estate through the eyes of the painter Ernst Würtenberger . In: Hegau 36/37, 1979/80, pp. 101-140
  • Silvia Volkart, Lukas Gloor : Ernst Würtenberger. Zurich's distinguished portraitist . In: Turicum, 4/1985, pp. 12-17
  • Silvia Volkart: Ernst Würtenberger - a German painter as an art mediator in Zurich . In: The art of collecting: Swiss art collections since 1848. Zurich: Swiss Institute for Art Research, 1998, pp. 73–80
  • Simone Sander: The portrait in Ernst Würtenberger's early work , Master's thesis, Art History Institute of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 2001
  • Axel Heil, Harald Klingelhöller (editor): 150 years. The history of the Kunstakademie Karlsruhe in pictures and texts . Swiridoff, 2004, ISBN 3-89929-045-3
  • Simone Sander is currently preparing a dissertation on the complete works of Ernst Würtenberger at the Art History Institute of the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau.
  • Yvonne Istas, Simone Sander, artist brothers Würtenberger: Karl Maximilian (1872–1933) and Ernst (1868–1934). Catalog for the exhibition of the same name, Stockach, City Museum in the Old Forestry Office June 20-21 , 2010 , Stockacher Museum Catalogs , Vol. 6, Stockach, 2010, VI, 90 p., Numerous. Ill.
  • Barbara Stark (Ed.): Ernst Würtenberger. 1868-1934. A German painter in Switzerland. Exhibition catalog, Konstanz (Städt. Wessenberg-Galerie), 196 pages, Nimbus-Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-03850-040-7

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Gustav Würtenberger at the Zurich School of Applied Arts
personal data
SURNAME Würtenberger, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Würtenberger, Ernst Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait and genre painter, graphic artist and art theorist, professor at the Landeskunstschule Karlsruhe
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Taillings
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1934
Place of death Karlsruhe