Eugen Napoleon Neureuther
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
- In 1835 he painted representations from Christoph Martin Wieland's Oberon in the Königsbau .
- Also in 1835 he designed the wall decoration of the music room in the Villa Dessauer together with Wilhelm von Kaulbach . Kaulbach designed six wall paintings on Amor and Psyche , Neureuther the framing decorative painting.
- Numerous allegorical sgraffitos at the Polytechnic in Munich, decoration of the ceiling of the stairwell and the dome.
The Schack Collection in Munich contains oil paintings by Neureuther.
Neureuther continued to work extensively in the arts and crafts sector.
literature
- Friedrich Pecht : Neureuther, Eugen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 552-554.
- Neureuther, Eugen Napoleon . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition Volume 14, Leipzig 1908, p. 572 ( digitized version ).
- Horst Ludwig : Eugen Napoleon Neureuther and the illustration grotto. A contribution to the "genus humile" in Biedermeier . Dissertation Munich 1971.
- Angelika Burger: Neureuther, Eugen Napoleon. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 182 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Juliana Bauer: Eugen Napoleon Neureuther. His work in the Royal Bavarian Porcelain Manufactory Nymphenburg, 1848-1856. Nymphenburg porcelain in the style pluralism of historicism and industrial art . Freiburg 2006.
- John Ittmann: Eugen Napoleon Neureuther (1806-1882) . In: The enchanted world of German romantic prints, 1770-1850 . Philadelphia 2017, pp. 348-361.
Web links
- Literature by and about Eugen Napoleon Neureuther in the catalog of the German National Library
Remarks
- ↑ Grave field 25 - row 8 - seat 35.
- ↑ Munich 1829-1840.
- ^ Weigel's art catalog 1838 .
- ^ Digitized version of the 1855 edition .
- ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon .
- ↑ digitized version .
- ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon .
- ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon .
- ↑ With woodcuts based on drawings by Eugen Neureuther. Cotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1846 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon .
- ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon .
- ^ Munich, Königstrasse 2; not received.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon .
- ↑ Dream of Porcia ; The dying nun ; The Mils Villa ; The Malta Villa ; Scene from Hermann and Dorothea .
personal data | |
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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 |