Ettore Roesler Franz
Ettore Roesler Franz (born May 11, 1845 in Rome , † March 26, 1907 ibid) was an Italian painter of Bohemian descent. He created numerous views of his hometown, including numerous watercolors .
Life
The painter's parents were Teresa Biondi and Luigi Roesler Franz. The ancestors of the family immigrated from Bohemia to Italy in the 18th century . They founded the Hotel d'Allemagne in Rome, where guests like Stendhal , Richard Wagner , Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe stayed .
The later painter was baptized in San Lorenzo in Lucina with the name Ettore Edoardo Flaminio; his godfather was his uncle Pietro Roesler Franz, owner of the hotel. Pietro Roesler Franz, however, was only a half-brother of the artist's father, as Luigi Roesler Franz came from the first marriage of Giuseppe Roesler Franz to Marianna Flizhaver, while Pietro Roesler Franz came from his second marriage, which he entered into with Anna Ambrosini. The two branches of the family merged again in later generations. Ettore Roesler Franz's brother Alessandro, later the English consul in Rome, was his first marriage to his cousin Carolina Roesler Franz, a daughter of Pietro Roesler Franz.
Roesler Franz attended the College of Brothers of the Christian Schools in Piazza di Spagna, founded in 1850, from 1861 to 1863 , and the Collegio di Propaganda Fide for philosophical studies from 1863 to 1865 , at the same time he attended lectures on architecture at the Accademia di San Luca . Ettore Ferrari was one of his fellow students .
From 1864 to 1872 he was secretary to the British consul Joseph Severn in Rome, through whom he came into contact with various well-known landscape painters. After Servern left office, Roesler Franz first worked in the bank founded by his brothers Adolfo and Alessandro in Via Condotti in 1869, before turning entirely to painting in 1875. He was interested in his hometown Rome, which was subjected to a rapidly advancing modernization process from around 1870 onwards. He created sketches and photographs on site, which he then processed into watercolor pictures in which he tried to ignore the current changes in the city. The result was pictures that give a more rural impression of the big city. At the same time, they look very realistic. Roesler Franz's watercolors have been exhibited in numerous European capitals, including Berlin and Paris . In Germany there were also exhibitions of his works in Munich , Stuttgart and Dresden . Roesler Franz worked almost exclusively in watercolor; only a dozen or so pictures in oil painting or other techniques are known.
Despite the way in which the individual city quarters were presented backwards at the time, many details of the buildings that Ettore Roesler Franz captured in his pictures can still be recognized in Rome in the 21st century.
Ettore Roesler Franz also paid special attention to Tivoli , the ancient Tibur that Horace had described. For this he received in 1903 the honorary citizenship of Tivolis. In gratitude, he gave the city his watercolor Ponte Lupo from 1898.
Until 1966, the city of Rome owned the complete series Roma sparita , which originally included 120 watercolors on the history of the city's building. One of the pictures was lost in 1966 on the occasion of a traveling exhibition in Cologne . The works of Roesler Franz are in various museums in Rome, some also outside the country. There is one painting in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and two hanging in Southampton .
In 2004 the Scalinata Ettore Roesler Franz in Tivoli was named after the painter. As early as 1908, a memorial stone for Ettore Roesler Franz was erected by his friend Adolfo Scalpelli . In Rome, on the other hand, the deceased painter received little honor, which was commented on a website dedicated to Roesler Franz as follows: “[…] il Comune di Roma non ha, purtroppo, sinora mostrato di avere molto a cuore il suo illustrious concittadino. Difatti per una "distrazione" di una Giunta capitolina verso la fine degli Anni Sessanta fu intitolata a Ettore Roesler Franz una desolata strada di Acilia, lontano dalla città a lui tanto cara e ritratta in numerosissimi suoi angoli. "
literature
- Fed H .: Necrologist - Rome . In: Art Chronicle . New series, Volume 18, No. 22 . EA Seemann, Leipzig April 19, 1907, Sp. 358 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Roesler Franz, Ettore . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 504 .
- Sergio Cartocci: Roma Sparita. La Città eterna un secolo fa negli acquarelli di Ettore Roesler Franz. OTO, Rome 1972.
- Paesaggi della memoria. Gli acquarelli romani di Ettore Roesler Franz dal 1876 al 1895 (= Landscapes of memory. The Roman watercolors of Ettore Roesler Franz, 1876-95. ) Mandragora, Firenze 2007, ISBN 978-88-7461-114-0 (Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Dec. 19, 2007-Mar. 24, 2008, Italian and English).
- Francesco Franco: Roesler Franz, Ettore. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 88: Robusti – Roverella. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2017.
Web links
- Maria Cristina Biagi: Ettore Roesler Franz. ( Biography with links to further articles on archimagazine.com)
- Standard entry in the Opac des Servizio bibliotecario nazionale (SBN)
- Publications about Ettore Roesler Franz in the Opac of the SBN
- Roma sparita. Views of the novel in watercolors by Ettore Roesler Franz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le strade di Roma - Tavole a colori d'epoca (1700–1900) . 1900 ( archive.org - numerous illustrations).
- ↑ a b Ettore Roesler Franz, cittadino onorario di Tivoli on tibursuperbum.it.
- ↑ a b La Vita on www.ettoreroeslerfranz.com ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Today Collegio San Giuseppe - Istituto De Merode
- ↑ a b Who was Ettore Roesler Franz? on Reise-nach-italien.de.
- ↑ a b c Ettore Roesler Franz, cittadino onorario di Tivoli , part 2 on tibursuperbum.it.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roesler Franz, Ettore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roesler Franz, Ettore Edoardo Flaminio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter of German descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1907 |
| Place of death | Rome |