Ferdinand Brütt
Ferdinand Martin Cordt Brütt (born July 13, 1849 in Hamburg , † November 6, 1936 in Bergen near Celle ) was a German painter . Brütt was a distant relative of the sculptor Adolf Brütt .
Live and act
He enjoyed his first artistic lessons at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts , where he became a student of Günther Gensler and Friedrich Heimerdinger . On their recommendation, Brütt was able to switch to the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar in autumn 1870 , where he was a. a. Taught by the history painters Ferdinand Pauwels , Albert Baur and Karl Gussow . Baur in particular, who further developed the monumental ideas of his teacher Alfred Rethel , had a great influence on Brütt.
When Baur accepted an offer at the Academy in Düsseldorf in 1876 , Brütt went with him and developed the genre of court pictures parallel to Christian Ludwig Bokelmann . Brütt was able to fall back on his own experience here, as he was obliged to serve as a juror himself for some time. This genre was already used and designed by Louis Gallait and Hendrik Leys ; Brütt and Bokelmann revived this species with their own ideas.
In 1889 Brütt went on a long study trip to Italy, where he studied less the “old masters” than was inspired by the landscape. For the same reason, Brütt also made several trips to the Alps and the North Sea coast .
Between 1898 and 1920 Brütt lived and worked in Kronberg / Taunus. Here he joined the Kronberg painter colony, which u. a. goes back to Anton Burger and Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann . In 1893 Brütt was appointed a " full Prussian professor ". A teaching obligation was connected with this. From 1906 to 1913 he created several large wall and ceiling paintings for the city of Frankfurt. In 1905 he was commissioned to design the large citizens' hall in the town hall of Frankfurt am Main . In Frankfurt he was in exchange with Wilhelm Trübner , Rudolf Gudden , Robert Hoffmann , Paul Klimsch and Ottilie Roederstein .
In 1920 he settled in Bergen in the district of Celle . He moved into the house of his son-in-law, the district court advisor of Briesen.
In Düsseldorf, Brütt developed a characteristic type of impressionism , in which he placed the emphasis on the color of the moving overall impression and not on details. His artistic inclination lay primarily in the representation of large crowds, such as court, society and city scenes. He also created pictures with religious content (for example “Golgata” or “ Christ the Victor” ). Brütts early work lasted until around the end of the 1970s. This is followed by works in which a very careful representation of light and color can be noticed, especially in rooms. In Brütts late work from around 1902 depictions of landscapes of monumental size dominate.
Ferdinand Brütt was a member of the German Association of Artists and the Malkasten artists' association . He died in Bergen on November 6, 1936 at the age of 87. He was buried in Düsseldorf.
Works (selection)
- Farmer Deputation
- Piano lesson (1877)
- Old man with a black hat
- Acquitted
- At the pawnbroker
- Before the jury
- Autumn mood
- On the stock exchange (1888)
- The Land's Hope (1876)
- Christ on the Mount of Olives (altar painting, Martin Luther Church Falkenstein / Ts.)
- The "Gogericht"
- The Hour of Decision in the Courtroom (1892)
- Introduction of the young pastor in the Protestant church in Kronberg (approx. 1904)
- Golgotha 1895
- Brütts Daughters Reading (1898)
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2019: Hamburg School - The 19th Century Rediscovered (April 12 to July 14), Hamburger Kunsthalle
literature
- Brütt, Ferdinand . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 140.
- Josef A. Beringer: Ferdinand Brütt on the artist's 70th birthday, July 13, 1919. Velhagen & Klasing, Braunschweig 1919.
- August Wiederspahn: The Kronberg painter colony. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-7829-0183-5 .
- Exhibition catalog: Ferdinand Bütt. Narration and impression. König, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-230-7 .
- Alexander Bastek : Ferdinand Brütt and the urban-bourgeois genre around 1900. Weimar: VDG 2007 ISBN 978-3-89739-550-3 , plus dissertation Hamburg 2005
Individual evidence
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 23, 2015)
Web links
- Literature by and about Ferdinand Brütt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Ferdinand Brütt
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brütt, Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brütt, Ferdinand Martin Cordt (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1936 |
| Place of death | Bergen near Celle |