Felix Borchardt

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Felix Richard Siegfried Borchardt (born March 7, 1857 in Berlin; † February 15, 1936 there ) was a German painter .

Life

Felix Borchardt was the youngest of four sons of the Berlin lawyer Siegfried Borchardt (1815–1880), Costa Rican ministerial resident, and his wife Helene, née. Saling (1824-1899). After the death of their parents, the brothers were well provided for and financially independent. Felix Borchardt studied painting at the Berlin Academy under Max Michael . He then traveled to Holland , Turkey , Spain , Morocco and Egypt . In 1882 he was the travel companion of the Hereditary Prince Bernhard of Saxony-Meiningen in Greece . This was followed by stays in Naples (1887–1892) and Dresden (1892–1899). Here he married the 23-year-old Elizabeth de Bosse in 1893. The following year they had a child, who later became the writer Elisabeth Castonier .

Felix Borchardt began as a copyist and painted until 1895 under the impression of the old masters and the genre paintings of Franz von Lenbach . Since 1896, the influence of modern Swedish currents and French impressionism was evident . In 1897 Borchardt became a member of the Dresden Secession . He was also successful as a portraitist .

In 1899 the family left Dresden to move to Paris . There Felix Borchardt hoped and found more recognition for his works, which were acquired not only by private collectors but also by the French state for the Musée du Luxembourg . The renowned Parisian architect Charles Plumet had a house built on Rue Octave Feuillet in 1907/08, which soon became a meeting place for painters, musicians and journalists, such as Paolo Tosti (composer), Enrico Brancaccio (painter), John Grand- Carteret (author), Julius Meier-Graefe (art historian), Theodor Wolff (editor-in-chief of the Berliner Tageblatt ), Max Nordau (philosopher and author) and many others. In Paris, Borchardt regularly participated in the salons of the Société Internationale at the Georges Petit gallery . He had his first solo exhibitions in 1902 at L'Art Nouveau Siegfried Bing and in 1903 at Bernheim-Jeune. Borchardt was with Claude Monet in Giverny with the influential art critic Louis Vauxcelles .

In 1905 Felix Borchardt was commissioned by Figaro Illustré to draw Kaiser Wilhelm II for a special edition entitled "European Monarchs". He also made an oil painting of the emperor, which he said was unsuccessful.

In 1911 Borchardt left Paris with his family and initially lived in Gmund am Tegernsee before moving to Berlin in 1912, where he mainly worked as a portrait painter. In 1917 he took part in the exhibition of the Berlin Secession with a portrait of Alfred Kerr .

In 1927 Felix Borchardt published his autobiography .

Honors

Borchardt was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Works

  • In the port of Flensburg, around 1903. Privately owned, Flensburg
  • Portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm II., Around 1906, formerly Reiff Museum Aachen, lost in the war
  • Portrait of Georg Hermann, Stadtmuseum Berlin
  • Portrait of Hans von Oelschläger, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

literature

  • Felix Borchardt: In seven mile steps. Memories of a painter . Mittler, Berlin 1927.
  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Ekensund Artists' Colony, Heide 2000, p. 181.
  • Dagmar Frings and Jörg Kuhn: The Borchardts. On the trail of a Berlin family . Hentsch & Hentrich, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942271-17-2 .

Web links

Commons : Felix Borchardt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See afterword to: Exil im Nebelland. Elisabeth Castonier's Letters to Mary Tucholsky: A Chronicle . Peter Lang Verlag, Bern u. a. 2010, p. 593 Online at GBS .
  2. ^ Exposition Félix Borchardt du 5 au 20 December 1903. Paris Galerie Bernheim-Jeune. 8, Rue Lafette.
personal data
SURNAME Borchardt, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borchardt, Felix Richard Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 1936
Place of death Berlin