Ernst von Bernuth

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Ernst Philipp von Bernuth (born June 6, 1833 at Aspel House in Haldern ; † December 30, 1923 in Düsseldorf ) was a German officer and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Born as the son of the Prussian district administrator of the Rees district, Friedrich Heinrich von Bernuth (1789–1859) and Johanna van den Broek (1802–1845) - the brother Julius von Bernuth (1830–1902) became professor and director of the conservatory in Hamburg - made a decision Ernst von Bernuth initially worked as an officer after attending grammar school in Wesel . In 1861 he married Helene Louise Tendering (1835–1915). As a Prussian lieutenant and company commander in the war against Denmark in 1864 when he was crossing to Alsen , he received a life-threatening wound in the lung. After his recovery, he was promoted to captain in 1865 , and in 1867 was put up for disposition . For the duration of the war against France , Bernuth was reactivated and acted as a stage commander in Düsseldorf.

After early autodidactic attempts at drawing and painting, together with friends Ludwig Hugo Becker and Ernst Bosch in Wesel, Ernst von Bernuth only attended Oswald Achenbach's landscape class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy when he was 35, from 1867 to 1870, and then settled in Düsseldorf for good low. Since 1871 he was a member of the artists' association Malkasten , temporarily on its board. He also belonged to the Association of Düsseldorf Artists for Mutual Support and Help . His portrait, painted by Adolf Lins , is in the Malkasten House in Düsseldorf.

Ernst von Bernuth - sod management ob d. Ramsau, oil painting 1883
Ernst von Bernuth - From the Morgenbachthal below Bingen, wood engraving after painting, exhibited: Academic Art Exhibition Berlin 1889 (catalog image)

Ernst von Bernuth mainly painted sun-drenched German forest landscapes, which he often supplemented with staffage figures, and which he painted on the occasion of stays on the Rhine and Weser, in the Eifel, in the Hunsrück and Teutoburg Forest, on Borkum as well as in Upper Bavaria and Austria (including Hintersee 1868 , Sodenleitung ob der Ramsau 1883, ancient noble fir trees in the Bavarian high forest ), where he recorded many motifs for later processing in drawings, in oil studies, but also photographically. The composition of narrower and wider landscape sections, often viewed from an elevated point of view, followed the tradition of the Düsseldorf landscape painting founded by Johann Wilhelm Schirmer in the 1840s, following the ideal landscape , and the tendencies of his teacher Oswald Achenbach towards idiosyncratic natural sections and looser, softer Colourfulness. With his work he took u. a. at the annual exhibitions of the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , the Association of Düsseldorf Artists and the Academy of Arts in Berlin (1870: Waldsee in Upper Bavaria , 1874: German Forest with medieval staffage , 1875: evening rest , 1876: Rhine landscape , autumn , searching , 1877: Godesberg ruins ). At the world exhibition in Vienna in 1873 he participated with Eichenwald by a stream (1872), in Amsterdam in 1886 with autumn morning , in Chicago in 1893 with a ravine . Bought were u. a. by Prince Georg of Prussia from prehistoric times in Germany (1878), by Kaiser Wilhelm I. Waldabhang (1887), from the Municipal Museum in Riga Mühle im Walde (1893) and others from the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia. Today they are almost exclusively in private collections. Von Bernuth also appeared as a draftsman, u. a. with illustrations for the album German Art and Poetry .

Pauline von Bernuth , the artist's daughter (1865–1914), was also a painter. Her works, mostly still lifes, were shown in the permanent art exhibitions of Eduard Schulte and Bismeyer & Kraus in Düsseldorf.

Fonts

  • Handwritten CV. Paint box archive, Düsseldorf 1888.
  • Autobiography. Manuscript, archive of the von Bernuth'schen Familienverband eV, Königstein im Taunus 1911.

literature

  • Visual arts magazine. 9, 1874, supplement Kunst-Chronik, Col. 743; 22, 1887, Supplement, Col. 614; 23, 1888, supplement, col. 115.
  • Boetticher: Painters' works. Vol. 1, 1, 1891, and 1, 2, supplements, 1895.
  • Adolf Rosenberg: From the Düsseldorf painting school. Leipzig 1889.
  • Bernuth, Ernst von . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 472 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): Sculptor and painter in the countries on the Rhine. Düsseldorf 1913.
  • Bernuth, Ernst von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961.
  • Bernhard Koerner: German gender book 80. CA Starke, Görlitz 1933, p. 47, 608-609.
  • Wolf Dietloff von Bernuth: The Bernuth book. Neustadt / Aisch 1986.
  • Sabine Schroyen (arrangement): Sources on the history of the artists' association Malkasten. A center of bourgeois art and culture in Düsseldorf since 1848. Cologne 1992.
  • Bernuth, Ernst von . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 9, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 .
  • Siegfried Weiß , in: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , p. 131 Fig .: River landscape in the Eifel (1894); At the edge of the forest (1881).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ B. Koerner: German Gender Book 80, Görlitz 1933, pp. 47, 609.
  2. ↑ Ernst Bosch: Memorabilia 1917. In: Supplement to the Generalanzeiger for Wesel, Rees district and the Lower Rhine. Wesel 1952, p.?; Siegfried Weiß: Ernst Bosch, life and work. Munich 1992, p.?.
  3. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 146.
  4. ↑ Fig. In: Our time , 1885
  5. ↑ Fig. In: Deutscher Hausschatz 10a, 1883
  6. ^ Borkum, local history museum: Borkum (1867).
  7. ^ Friedrich Bodenstedt (Ed.): Album of German Art and Poetry Berlin, Leipzig 1867 ( digitized version ).
  8. ↑ She was possibly a student of the Düsseldorf painter Sophie Meyer (1847–1921).
personal data
SURNAME Bernuth, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernuth, Ernst Philipp von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and landscape painter of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Haldern
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1923
Place of death Dusseldorf