Eugene Pratje

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Eugen Eduard Hermann Pratje (born January 19, 1847 in Batavia , Dutch East Indies , today Jakarta , Indonesia ; † unknown) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Portrait of Eugen Pratje
Amedeo Modigliani , 1915
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Pratje lived in the United States until 1873 . In 1873 he came to Düsseldorf and studied at the Royal Prussian Art Academy until 1878 . There Andreas and Karl Müller , Heinrich Lauenstein , Eduard Gebhardt , Julius Roeting and Wilhelm Sohn were his teachers. In March 1878 Pratje was represented at the large painting exhibition of the Kunstverein Bremen . From 1883 to 1890 he was a member of the artists' association Malkasten .

In 1915 Pratje lived in miserable conditions in a room in a small hotel at 35 rue Delambre in Paris . His roommate there was the German painter Heinz Witte , who was friends with Amedeo Modigliani at the time . Witte and Modigliani each painted a portrait of 68-year-old Pratje and exchanged the pictures. Modigliani's portrait of Pratje appeared in Witte's estate.

literature

  • Philip Hook, Mark Poltimore: Popular 19th Century Painting. A Dictionary of European Genre Painters . Antique Collectors' Club, 1986, ISBN 978-1-8514-9011-0 , p. 212.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Almanak en Naamregister van Nederlandsch Indie voor het Jaar 1848 . Ter Lands Drukkerij, Batavia 1848, p. 338 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ See nos. 11173–11182 in the finding aid 212.01.04 student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives
  3. ^ Directory of the exhibition catalogs of the Kunsthalle Bremen, 1819–2004 ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), website in the archive.li portal , accessed on March 11, 2017
  4. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . 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 1, p. 438
  5. ^ Ulrich Wilke: Heinz Witte-Lenoir. Reports from him and about him. Teachers, role models and companions. Directory of his works . Make a book publisher, Neukirchen 2006, ISBN 3-939119-3-85 , pp. 10, 30 ( Google Books )
  6. ^ Christian Parisot: Amedeo Modigliani . ACR, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-86770-091-4 , p. 96 ( Google Books )
  7. ^ Amedeo Modigliani - Portrait of Eugene Pratje , website in the portal reproarte.com , accessed on March 11, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Pratje, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pratje, Eugen Eduard Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Batavia , Dutch East Indies
DATE OF DEATH after 1915