Ferdinand Dorsch

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Ferdinand Dorsch (full name Ferdinand Franz Engelbert Dorsch ; born December 10, 1875 in Fünfkirchen , Hungary, † January 9, 1938 in Dresden-Blasewitz , Saxony ) was a German painter and graphic artist . He was a founding member of the Elbier , member of the board of the Sächsischer Kunstverein and professor at the Dresden Art Academy .

Life

  • The surgeon Theodor Billroth on his terrace in Sankt Gilgen / Wolfgangsee , 1899

  • Oldsum on Föhr , 1901

  • Village view with staffage , 1902

  • In the Weesensteiner Amtstube , 1910

  • Portrait of a girl , 1916

  • The favorite place

Dorsch was born in 1875 in the Hungarian town of Fünfkirchen and grew up in Vienna from 1888 . Due to a scholarship from Prince Reuss, he was able to study at the Dresden Academy from 1891 , among others with Leon Pohle and Ferdinand Pauwels . After their apprenticeship at Gotthardt Kuehl from 1895 to 1898, a lifelong friendship followed.

He returned to Vienna in 1898 and made the acquaintance of the Secessionist Carl Moll , from 1899 Dorsch himself was a member of the Vienna Secession . During this time, in addition to photo retouching and portrait enlargements, he also carried out portrait orders. But already in 1901 Ferdinand Dorsch went back to Dresden, where in 1902 he was a founding member of the artist group Die Elbier , which he also led and with her made a guest appearance at the Vienna Hagenbund until 1912 . In 1909 he was a founding member of the Dresden Artists' Association . With his friend, the impressionist Gotthard Kuehl, he made several trips to Überlingen on Lake Constance from 1903 to 1907 , he increasingly turned to Impressionism himself .

Dorsch had his own painting school in Dresden from 1904 to 1916, which he founded due to a lack of commissions. His students included Marianne Britze , Annemarie Heise and Conrad Felixmüller , with whom he was friends until he left for Berlin. From 1914 Dorsch held a professorship at his former training facility, the Dresden Academy, and in 1916 gave up his painting school. His students there included Otto Dix , Franz Lenk and Georg Siebert , Walter Tanau , Theodor Rosenhauer , Robert Liebknecht , Günter Schmitz and Paul Sinkwitz . He was rector of the academy in 1926/1927 and from 1935 onwards.

Dorsch was a board member of the Saxon Art Association from 1906 to 1921 , from 1918 as deputy chairman. He made great contributions to Dresden's exhibition life and took part (in the meantime as a member of the German Association of Artists ) in exhibitions not only in Dresden, but also in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Mannheim, Munich and other cities. A special exhibition of his works was held in Berlin in 1935. From 1916 he had his own painting studio and from 1922 to 1935 a joint one with his colleague Max Feldbauer , which led to a stylistic rapprochement between the two.

Ferdinand Dorsch died on January 9, 1938 in the Dresden villa district of Blasewitz . He was buried in the Johannisfriedhof ; the grave is preserved.

Awards and honors

  • 1896: large silver medal from the Dresden Academy
  • 1898: small gold medal from the Dresden Academy for the triptych Ein deutsches Lied
  • 1904: Gold medal at the Great Art Exhibition in Dresden for the painting Schumann's Dreaming (1904)
  • 1909: Gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Munich and the Academy Exhibition in Dresden for the painting Lantern Festival (1909)
  • 1913: Bronze medal in London's Crystal Palace
  • 1914: Wasaorden 1st class, awarded by Gustav V of Sweden
  • 1918: Knight's Cross of the Order of Albrecht

Collections

Ferdinand Dorsch's oeuvre has not yet been fully recorded. In addition to works of painting, there are also lithographic works; In addition to individual portraits, the group portrait The Senate of the Dresden University of Technology was also created in 1926/1927 .

Museums and galleries in which Dorsch's works are located include:

literature

  • Dorsch, Ferdinand in: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. First volume (AD) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 587)
  • Ferdinand Dorsch 1875–1938: An artist's life in Dresden. Exhibition catalog and documentation of the Galerie von Abercron, Cologne 1976, with contributions a. a. by Georg Siebert and Conrad Felixmüller. DNB 770560237
  • Dresden, a dream. Lithographs and drawings by Ferdinand Dorsch. Dieter Hoffmann (Ed.), Hellerau-Verlag: Dresden 1993. DNB 941811921
  • Exhibition of the graduates of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts 1995. Works on paper I. Dresden 1995.

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Dorsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Dorsch, Ferdinand (accessed on March 4, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Dorsch, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dorsch, Ferdinand Franz Engelbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Five Churches , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1938
Place of death Dresden-Blasewitz , Saxony