Ferdinand Bithorn

Ferdinand Bithorn (* around 1815 in Reichenbach im Eulengebirge , Province of Silesia ; † September 14, 1865 there ) was a German history painter and late Nazarist from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Bithorn was a pupil of the Breslau portrait painter Johann Heinrich Christoph König (1777–1867) around 1835. In 1838/1839 he studied at or around the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he took up the style of the Düsseldorf Nazarenes. He lived in Rome from November 26, 1842 to May 10, 1844 . There he took part in 1843 and 1844 in "Cervaro festivals" of the Ponte Molle Society . Sketchbooks, drawings and paintings by him were found in the estate of the architectural painter Adelbert Wölfl, who died in Breslau in 1896 . Bithorn lived in Reichenbach, where he painted a picture in 1842 that was donated to the local evangelical church , and from 1849 worked in the management or as chairman of the Reichenbach trade association "Museum".

literature

Erwin Hintze : Bithorn, Ferdinand . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 71 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Ferdinand Bithorn , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Ferdinand Bithorn , biography on the portal leksykonkulturnet.pl (in Polish)

Individual evidence

↑ Schlesische Zeitung , No. 459
^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF
^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart / Berlin / Leipzig 1927, Volume 2, p. 90, PDF
↑ Nekrolog 1865 . In: Thomas Oelsner: Schlesische Provinzialblätter . New series, Eduard Trewendt Verlag, Breslau 1866, Volume 5, p. 333 ( Google Books )

personal data
SURNAME	Bithorn, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German history painter and late Nazarist of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reichenbach , Owl Mountains , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	September 14, 1865
Place of death	Reichenbach , Owl Mountains , Province of Silesia

[1] Schlesische Zeitung , No. 459

[2] Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF

[3] Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart / Berlin / Leipzig 1927, Volume 2, p. 90, PDF

[4] Nekrolog 1865 . In: Thomas Oelsner: Schlesische Provinzialblätter . New series, Eduard Trewendt Verlag, Breslau 1866, Volume 5, p. 333 ( Google Books )