Ernst Willers
Ernst Wilhelm Dietrich Willers (born February 11, 1802 in Jeddeloh , district Vegesack ( Duchy of Oldenburg ), † May 1, 1880 , probably in Munich ) was a German landscape painter .
biography
Willers was the eldest son of the wagon master Christian Dietrich Willers and his wife Helene nee. Hank. From 1820 the father was the tenant of the state inn "Das Neue Haus" in Oldenburg. Willers attended the lower classes of the grammar school in Oldenburg and then completed a three-year apprenticeship as a painter in Varel . After his apprenticeship he worked for the Düsseldorf decorative painter Ludwig Pose , the father of the painter Eduard Wilhelm Pose , and at the same time studied under Peter Cornelius at the local art academy . Under the influence of Carl Friedrich Lessing , he found landscape painting .
Supported by Grand Duke Peter von Oldenburg , he went to Johan Christian Clausen Dahl in Dresden in 1824 to continue his nature and landscape studies. He then went on trips to the Alps and stayed in Munich from 1828, where he became a pupil of Carl Rottmann and created his first large-format works that later came into the possession of the Grand Duke. After two years returned to Oldenburg. Here he turned to the Oldenburg landscape in search of motifs and found what he was looking for in Hasbruch , whose oaks were his most popular motif of this time. From 1835 to September 1861 he lived in Rome , where he met Joseph Anton Koch and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer . With the latter he traveled through the Campagna and the Sabine Mountains . Willer's stay in Rome was interrupted in 1843 and from 1857 to 1859 by trips to Greece on behalf of the Grand Duke. In Rome Willers was one of the founders of the German Artists' Association , to which he belonged until 1853 and on whose board he was engaged in the years 1846/47. From 1864 he settled in Munich in order to pursue open-air painting again in the surrounding area . One of his important Munich clients was the poet and art historian Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack . In recognition of his landscape painting, which began in the Romantic period and later increasingly turned to realism , Willers was appointed as an Oldenburg court painter . Christian Griepenkerl , a student of Willers at the beginning of his painting career, portrayed him in 1877/78 as an Oldenburg art hero in the stairwell of the Augusteum in Oldenburg. Willer's works were often exhibited in the Oldenburger Kunstverein .
literature
- Jörg Deuter: Ernst Willers. A contribution to the history of landscape painting . Buchholz / Nordheide 2017, ISBN 978-3-933077-50-9 .
- Elfriede Heinemeyer: Willers, Ernst Wilhelm Dietrich. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 797-798 ( online ).
- Hyacinth Holland , Wilhelm Sillem: Willers, Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 269-271.
- Willers, Ernst . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume 2, p. 1020.
Web links
- Ernst Willers , Auction Results at artnet.de
- Ernst Willers (1803–1880): Isar landscape near Thalkirchen , picture review and biography (Oliver Gradel, 2005) in the portal kunstmaxx.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 647
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willers, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Willers, Ernst Wilhelm Dietrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jeddeloh -Gesack |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1880 |
| Place of death | unsure: Munich |