Eugene Dücker

Eugen Dücker or Eugène Gustav Dücker (born January 29 ^{. Jul} / 10. February  1841 ^{. Greg} in Arensburg , Governorate of Livonia ; † 6. December 1916 in Dusseldorf ) was a German - Russian painter of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Self-portrait on the Baltic Sea

Eugen Dücker was the son of the master carpenter Eduard Dücker (1813–1886) and his wife Amalie, née Fischer (1810–1880). His sister and student was the painter Marie Dücker . They came from the German-Baltic Dücker family from the Baltic Sea island of Ösel . He received his first drawing lessons from the draftsman and lithographer Friedrich Sigismund Stern . From 1858 to 1862 he attended the Academy in St. Petersburg , where he first studied sculpture with David Jensen (1816–1902) and then turned to landscape painting under Socrat Maximovich Worobjeff (1817–1888). He toured Europe on a six-year travel grant. He went to Karlsruhe , where he took lessons from Karl Friedrich Lessing , and to Munich . In 1864 he settled in Düsseldorf , in 1872 he succeeded Oswald Achenbach as a teacher of landscape painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and remained so for 44 years. On April 14, 1874, he married Regina Schneeloch in Düsseldorf. In 1879/80 he stayed in the Kleinsassen painters' colony in Hesse . In 1890 Dücker lived in the house of the painter Eduard Schoenfeld's widow on Pempelforter Strasse 60.

Study trips took him to Holland , Belgium , France and Italy . For his studies, Dücker preferred the northern German landscape , especially the North and Baltic Seas, which he often traveled with his friend Carl Irmer and the students in his painting class. Most of his pictures show the sea from the beach, later also the Harz and the heather. Due to the large number of students who followed him in his naturalistic conception of art, Dücker is considered to be the founder of the "Dücker Line" in Düsseldorf landscape painting.

Dücker was a member of the art academies in St. Petersburg, Berlin, Stockholm and the watercolorists 'associations of St. Petersburg, Vienna and Brussels, as well as a member of the Association of Düsseldorf Artists , the Düsseldorf Artists' Association Malkasten and the Düsseldorf Etching Club.

Quote

"Its artistic significance lies in overcoming the late romantic landscape painting in Düsseldorf."

- Rolf Andree

• Works
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  In the dunes, oil on canvas

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  Fishing boats on the beach, oil on wood

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  Fishing boat on the beach, watercolor

Student (selection)

Karl Bock , Max Clarenbach , Andreas Dirks , Wilhelm Fritzel , Willy Hamacher , Heinrich Hermanns , Olof Jernberg , Eugen Kampf , Franz Korwan , Helmuth Liesegang , Georg Macco , Edgar Meyer , Otto Modersohn , Erich Nikutowski , Walter Ophey , Fritz Overbeck , Lina von Perbandt , Heinrich Petersen-fishing , Albert Pütz , Gerhard von Rosen , August Schlueter , Friedrich Schwinge , Otto Serner , Otto Strützel , Willi Tillmans , Carl Vinnen and Carl Wuttke .

literature

• Dücker, Eugen Gustav . In: Wilhelm Neumann : Lexicon of Baltic artists . Riga 1908, p. 37 f.
• Walter Cohen : Dücker, Eugène Gustav . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 52 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Memorial exhibition for Eugen Dücker. On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birthday . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1941.
• Wend von Kalnein (ed.): The Düsseldorf school of painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name in Düsseldorf, May 13 to July 8, 1978 in the Mathildenhöhe ).
• Kuno Hagen: Lexicon of Baltic German visual artists. 20th century . Edited by the Georg Dehio Society with the assistance of Margarete Hagen. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-8046-0101-4 , p. 33.
• Eugene Dücker. In: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 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 , pp. 293-298.
• Eugene Dücker. In: Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Künstlerkolonie Ekensund , Heide 2000, ISBN 3-8042-0867-3 , p. 128.
• Eugene Dücker. In: Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: artist island Sylt. Heide 2005, ISBN 3-8042-1171-2 , pp. 94-99.
• Silke Köhn: Eugen Gustav Dücker 1841–1916 . In collector's journal. Issue 10, 2011, pp. 78-82 and Issue 11, 2011, pp. 94-99.

Web links

Commons : Eugen Dücker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Eugen Dücker. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Dücker, Eugene. Biography in the portal kulturportal-west-ost.eu
• Dücker, Eugene. Entry in the portal insularugia.de
• Eugen Gustav Dücker. Data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sometimes indicated as Eugen Drücker in catalogs and other media
2. ↑ Pempelforterstraße 60, Schönfeld, Eduard, widow, b. Baum, E. (owner); Dücker, Eugen, painter, professor at the Königl. Art academy . In: Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf. 1890.
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. 144.
4. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel : The "Dücker Line". In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 2, p. 463 ff.