Eugene Kruger

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Gut Wellingsbüttel , country party, on the left Carl and Louise Jauch nee v. Plessen (1868)

Eugen Krüger (born December 26, 1832 in Altona ; † July 8, 1876 in Düsternbrook ) was a German lithographer , landscape and animal painter .

Krüger learned lithography in Altona and studied in Vienna with the lithographer FJ Sandmann before turning to landscape painting. He traveled to England, Scotland, France, Italy and Switzerland. In 1852 he was a student of his uncle Louis Gurlitt , with whom he went on a study trip in 1853. The Hamburg lithographer Wilhelm Heuer is said to have been one of his teachers.

A woodcut from the Kunigunden Church in Dürnstein has come down to us from 1853 - made during the study trip with Gurlitt . After further studies in Düsseldorf in 1853 with his friend Adolf Schreyer and Teutwart Schmitson , Krüger settled in Hamburg at the end of the 1850s . Krüger, at the same time a passionate hunter, frequented u. a. in the house of the Hamburg citizen Johann Christian Jauch and his son Carl Jauch and was a regular guest on the hunts they organized at Gut Wellingsbüttel . In addition to lithographs, oil paintings and silhouettes - mostly hunting scenes - have been preserved of his work.

In 1864 the Hamburger Kunsthalle received a “Scottish landscape” from Kruger as a gift from a collector. His twenty-two sheet series of lithographs, "The Hunt drawn and lithographed by Eugen Krüger", Hamburg 1860, was published in the second edition in 1866 under the title "Wild und Wald" and was awarded the large golden Prussian medal for art and science.

In 1870 Krüger published Eugen Krüger's landscape album from the theater of war: 50 pictures in color dr. drawn on stone by the artist himself based on his sketches . The Franco-German War 1870-1871 , a series of 39 large-format chromolithographs with scenes from the 1871 war album, was later published by Wandsbek in 1871. In 1873 he published Six charactered landscapes . In 1874 the cycle Picturesque Travel Destinations was published in Berlin .

A view of Windeby's Castle is known . A chalk lithograph by Eugen Krüger served Max Ernst's father as a template for a watercolor in 1894 . The observation of the father "is the first and apparently decisive encounter with art for his later development", as Max Ernst describes in his 1942 memoirs.

Because of Kruger’s early death, the work base is narrow. After his death, an "Eugen Krüger Exhibition" with mostly privately owned works took place in Hamburg in 1877 in his memory. Works can be found in museums in Flensburg and Kiel. Krüger was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Eugen Krüger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal for the German-Austrian grammar schools. Volume 27, 1867, p. 559.
  2. ↑ Painting "Deer in the Twilight" denotes "London", cf. Sotheby's Germany, 19th century European paintings, drawings and sculpture. 1992, p. 51.
  3. ^ Louis Gurlitt, Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Bärbel Hedinger : Louis Gurlitt, 1812-1897: Portraits of European landscapes in paintings and drawings. 1997, p. 97.
  4. ↑ Meinhard Knigge: Grace of the North: Wilhelm Heuer and his graphic work. 1996, p. 31.
  5. ^ Reports and communications from the Antiquities Association in Vienna. Volume 3, 1859, p. 163.
  6. ^ Society for Schleswig-Holstein History (Hrsg.): Yearbooks for the regional studies of the duchies of Schleswig. Volume 7, 1864, p. 50.
  7. ^ Monthly for forestry and hunting. 1866, p. 351 ff.
  8. ↑ General agricultural and forestry newspaper. Volume 1, 1867, p. 484.
  9. ↑ General forest and hunting newspaper. Volume 43, 1867, p. 56.
  10. ^ Joseph Heller, Andreas Andresen, Joseph Edward Wessely, Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler; or, Encyclopedia of Engravers: Painter-Radirer and Form-cutter of all countries and schools according to their most valued sheets and works. Volume 1, 1870, p. 772.
  11. ^ Journal of Fine Arts. Volume 2, 1867, p. 62.
  12. ↑ Eugen Krüger: Six charactered landscapes . GW Seitz, Wandsbeck 1873.
  13. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 29, 2000, No. 100, p. 56.
  14. ↑ Jürgen Pech: Max Ernst - Life and Time. ( inbruehl.com ).
  15. ^ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Painting in Schleswig-Holstein: Catalog of the painting collection of the Flensburg City Museum. 1989, p. 171.
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lithographer, animal and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1876
Place of death Gloombrook