Ferdinand Hartmann (painter)

Ferdinand Hartmann; Self-portrait around 1815

Christian Ferdinand Hartmann (born July 14, 1774 in Stuttgart ; † January 6 or June 1842 in Dresden ) was a history painter and since 1811 a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts , Berlin, in the section for the fine arts.

family

Ferdinand Hartmann was the youngest son of the ducal-Württemberg court and finance councilor Johann Georg Hartmann (1731–1811), a Stuttgart Freemason , and Juliane Friederike (née Spittler) (1736–1799), the daughter of the mayor of Cannstatt . He had six siblings, one sister and five brothers, including Johann Georg August von Hartmann , State Councilor and President of the Chamber of Accounts in Württemberg, Friedrich von Hartmann , doctor and natural scientist (paleontologist) and Ludwig von Hartmann , entrepreneur.

Ferdinand Hartmann's father's house was significant as a literary salon, the “ Hartmannsche Haus ”, which was later continued by Johann Georg August Hartmann and then by his son-in-law Georg Reinbeck ; it was now called the " Hartmann-Reinbecksche Haus ". Many important personalities frequented these salons: Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , Goethe, Schiller's parents and occasionally Schiller himself, then Friedrich Hölderlin , later Justinus Kerner , Ludwig Uhland , Gustav Schwab , Friedrich Rückert and many others up to Nikolaus Lenau .

life and work

From 1786 to 1794 Ferdinand Hartmann studied painting at the Hohen Karlsschule in Stuttgart. He then went to Rome from 1794 to 1798. He then became a member of the Stuttgart Painters Academy. In 1801 he received the Weimar Goethe Prize for Hector's farewell . From 1803 he lived on the mediation of Princess Luise von Anhalt-Dessau, née. Princess of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1750–1811), in Dresden. There he came into friendly contact with the writer Heinrich von Kleist during his time in Dresden, which lasted from August 1807 to May 1809. In October 1810, Hartmann was appointed professor at the Dresden Academy . From 1820 to 1823 he was back in Rome. Since 1825 he was a member of the board of directors of the Dresden Art Academy. He was considered one of the most fruitful representatives of classicism .

Hartmann drew Heinrich von Kleist's attention to the lecture by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert , in which Schubert praised the magnetic healing treatments of the Heilbronn doctor Eberhard Gmelin .

According to some researchers, the description of individual séances led by Gmelin may have inspired Kleist's knight play Das Käthchen von Heilbronn or The Trial by Fire . Recently it has been pointed out that a family relationship between Kleist's painter friend Ferdinand Hartmann may have resulted in an important local connection to Heilbronn and to the imperial knighthood for the playwright. Hartmann's only sister, Johanna Henriette Friederike Mayer, b. Hartmann (1762–1820), wife of the imperial knighthood lawyer Lic iur. Friedrich Christoph Mayer (1762–1841) lived from spring 1797 to 1803 and again from November 1809 until her death in Heilbronn, in between 1803–1809 in the nearby knightly village of Kochendorf until 1806. Her daughter, a niece of Kleist's friend Hartmann, Juliane Auguste, b. Mayer (born February 17, 1789; † July 18, 1843), was later married to the Heilbronn native Johann Clemens Bruckmann (1768–1835), who served there as the town school from 1822–1835.

The fact that a later mayor of Heilbronn became the son-in-law of the Heilbronn sister of the former Kleist friend Hartmann is characteristic of Kleist's network of relationships, which basically included Heilbronn.

Works

• Helena led to Paris by Venus and Cupid ; Drawing, 1799
• Eros and Anteros ; Oil painting, Dresden, 1803
• Seated Lady by the Sea ; watercolor
• Duck hunting ; Sepia drawing, 1833
• The children Edmund and Isabella with a dog , oil painting, Munich, 1835
• The beautiful Bertha , oil painting, München, Munich, 1835
• Finance Minister Ludwig I , oil painting, Munich, 1837
• The finance minister's wife , oil painting, Munich, 1837
• Girl at the piano , oil painting, Munich, 1837

literature

• Reinhard Breymayer: Between Princess Antonia von Württemberg and Kleist's Käthchen von Heilbronn. News on the magnetic and tension fields of Prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger . Noûs-Verlag Thomas Leon Heck, Dußlingen 2010, especially p. 17 f.
• Werner Gebhardt: The students of the Hohen Karlsschule. A biographical lexicon . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021563-4 , pp. 276 .
• Julius Hartmann:  Hartmann, Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 682.
• Georg Himmelträger : Lavater, the Hartmanns and an unknown drawing by Nicolas Guibal. In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 64 (2005), pp. 199–210. [To Israel Hartmann, Gottlob David Hartmann , Johann Georg Hartmann and others]
• Wolfgang Freiherr von Löhneysen:  Hartmann, Christian Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 733 ( digitized version ).
• Edwin H. Zeydel: The painter Ferdinand Hartmann and Ludwig Tiecks edition of the writings of Kleist. (With two unknown letters by Tieck [to Christian Ferdinand Hartmann]). In: Yearbook of the Kleist Society , born 1933– [19] 37. Edited by Georg Minde-Pouet and Julius Petersen. Berlin 1933 ( Writings of the Kleist Society , Vol. 17), pp. 95–97.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the literary significance of the Hartmann family and Princess Luise von Anhalt-Dessau cf. Reinhard Breymayer : Freemasons at the gates of the Tübingen monastery: Masonic influence on Hölderlin? In: Tubingensia. Impulses for the city and university history. Festschrift for Wilfried Setzler on his 65th birthday . Edited by Sönke Lorenz and Volker Schäfer. ( Tübinger Baussteine ​​zur Landesgeschichte , 10), Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2008, pp. 355–395. Here, in a network analysis, the importance of the Stuttgart Lodge to the three Ceders, to which Ferdinand Hartmann's father belonged, for literary life during its existence (1774-1784) and also during the period of the ban (1784-1834) is shown due to its aftermath .
2. ↑ Hans Franke: In the footsteps of Käthchen von Heilbronn : What is the reason for Elisabeth Klett ? In: Stuttgarter NS-Kurier , No. 501, October 26, 1934 ( Online ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ). 
3. ↑ Cf. Reinhard Breymayer: Between Princess Antonia von Württemberg […], pp. 18, 75, 227 on Henriette Mayer; P. 17f., 27f., 35, 37f., 61, 67, 69, 74, 77, 227 on Kleist's painter friend Christian Ferdinand Hartmann and his family.