Eugen Napoleon Neureuther

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Unknown: Portrait of the painter Eugen Napoleon Neureuther
Neureuther: The Flowering of Art in Munich (1861)
Award of the artist's coat of arms to Albrecht Dürer
Neureuther: vase with mermaids
Grave of Eugen Napoleon Neureuther on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

Eugen Napoleon Neureuther (born January 13, 1806 in Munich ; † March 23, 1882 there ) was a German painter , draftsman and etcher .

Life

family

He was born the son of the painter Ludwig Neureuther (1775–1830). His younger brother Gottfried Neureuther became an architect . Ludwig Neureuther's direct descendants are the ski racer Christian Neureuther (* 1949) and his children Ameli Neureuther (* 1981) and Felix Neureuther (* 1984).

Life

Eugen Napoleon Neureuther attended the Munich Academy from 1823 , where he was a student of Wilhelm von Kobell . In 1830 he stayed in Paris and in 1838 in Rome . Peter von Cornelius gave him decoration work in the Glyptothek in Munich . In 1848 he became head of the artistic section of the royal porcelain factory in Nymphenburg , where he stayed until the company was sold in 1856. From 1868 to 1877 he was a professor at the Royal School of Applied Arts .

His grave is in the old southern cemetery in Munich. Location .

Work (selection)

Neureuther worked primarily as an illustrator, creating arabesques for literature and poetry. He established his reputation with marginal drawings for Goethe's ballads and romances . He also created decorative wall paintings and also appeared as a painter of table works.

Illustrations

sorted by year of publication

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Ballads and Romances . Cotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1829/30.
  • Souvenir du 27, 28, 29 juillet 1830 = lithographs , 3 sheets, Paris 1831.
  • Bavarian mountain songs with pictures . Munich 1833.
  • In 1835, he etched Sleeping Beauty from Grimm's fairy tale for the Munich Art Association .
  • For the superb edition by Johann Gottfried Herder : Der Cid , Cotta, Stuttgart 1838, 70 illustrations.
  • In: Album of German artists in original etchings . Buddeus, Düsseldorf 1841.
  • Franz von Kobell : songs in Upper Bavarian dialect . Munich (after 1843).
  • 1840 depicted the artist's mask train in arabesque form, which he etched in steel in 1844 .
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Götz von Berlichingen. A play .
  • A series of etchings based on the frescoes by Carl Rottmann in the arcades of the Munich court garden .

Neureuther also illustrated individual poems by Goethe, Joseph Christian von Zedlitz ' Waldfräulein and Nikolaus Becker 's Rheinlied .

Wall and oil painting

The Schack Collection in Munich contains oil paintings by Neureuther.

Neureuther continued to work extensively in the arts and crafts sector.

literature

Web links

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ Grave field 25 - row 8 - seat 35.
  2. ↑ Munich 1829-1840.
  3. ^ Weigel's art catalog 1838 .
  4. ^ Digitized version of the 1855 edition .
  5. ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon .
  6. ↑ digitized version .
  7. ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon .
  8. ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon .
  9. ↑ With woodcuts based on drawings by Eugen Neureuther. Cotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1846 ( digitized version ).
  10. ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon .
  11. ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon .
  12. ^ Munich, Königstrasse 2; not received.
  13. ^ Daniela Di Lupo: Cupid and Psyche: a mythical love affair. New studies on paintings by Wilhelm von Kaulbach . In: Denkmalpflege Informations 166 (2017), pp. 48–50.
  14. ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon .
  15. ↑ Dream of Porcia ; The dying nun ; The Mils Villa ; The Malta Villa ; Scene from Hermann and Dorothea .
personal data
SURNAME Neureuther, Eugen Napoleon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1882
Place of death Munich