Ferdinand Pauwels

Ferdinand Pauwels, 1862.

Wilhelm Ferdinand Pauwels ([ˈpʌu̯əls]; born April 13, 1830 in Ekeren near Antwerp , † March 26, 1904 in Dresden ) was a Belgian history painter .

Life

portrait

At the age of twelve, Pauwels became a student at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerp in 1842 , where he was mostly taught by Jules Dujardin and Gustave Wappers until 1850 . During his training he was able to successfully debut in the academy exhibitions; his work Coriolan before Rome was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1852 .

Grave of Ferdinand Pauwels in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden

Associated with this prize was a generous scholarship, which enabled Pauwels to study at the Villa Medici in Rome until 1856 . On his return trip in 1856, Pauwels stayed in Dresden for some time before settling in Antwerp as a freelance artist.

In 1862 Pauwels accepted a professorship at the Grand Ducal Art School Weimar, which had been founded two years earlier, and taught numerous students there for ten years with great success, including Max Liebermann . At the same time, many of his oil paintings , but also his well-known "Luther cycle" on the Wartburg , seven murals from the life of Martin Luther , were created during this time . The other paintings in the 18-picture cycle were created by Paul Thumann (5), Willem Linnig the Elder. J. (3) and Alexander Struys (3).

In 1872 Pauwels returned to Belgium and worked freelance for the next four years. In 1876 he was appointed to the art academy in Dresden , where he again did his teaching job as a professor. During this time he also created a group of six wall paintings in the auditorium of the Princely School of Meissen. Pauwels died in Dresden in 1904 and was buried in the Old Catholic Cemetery.

reception

Audiences and critics alike admired the skillful implementation of the historical themes. While there were still biblical scenes in Pauwels early works (“Deborah as a judge”), this changed over the years up to political statements (“America abolishes slavery”). In addition to the content of his works, his play with colors was also praised. Pauwels was able to complete the cycle of twelve wall paintings begun by Charles de Groux in the Cloth Hall in Ypres .

Works (selection)

Landscape with lovebirds

Luther sings as a currende student with Mrs. Cotta in Eisenach (1872)
Luther's friend struck by lightning (1872)
Luther's Entry into the Monastery (1872)
Luther discovered the Bible (1872)
Luther in Rome (1872)
Luther's posting of the theses (1872)
Luther before Cajetan (1872)
Meeting of Baldwin I. with his daughter Johanna (1851)
Coriolan before Rome, overcome by his mother's tears (1852)
Deborah as a judge
Respa, Saul's wife , on the corpses of her sons (1856)
The widow Jacobs van Artevelde (1857, Brussels Museum)
The Exiles of Duke Alba (1861)
The calling of St. Clare
Citizens of Ghent before Philip the Bold
America abolishes slavery ,
Scenes from the persecution of the Protestants in the Netherlands (Königsberg, Städtisches Museum)
Queen Philippine giving aid to the poor in Ghent
Louis XIV receives the deputation of the Republic of Genoa (Munich, Maximilianeum)
The visit of Count Philip of Alsace to the St. Marien Hospital in Ypres (1877, Dresden Gallery)
Johanna von Flanders freed 1,214 prisoners on Good Friday

Honors

Prix de Rome
Order of the Leopold
the big gold medal of the Berlin exhibition.
A street in Antwerp was named after him

Student (selection)

literature

Jan Dewilde (Ed.): Ferdinand Pauwels . Stedelijk Museum, Ypres 2001.
Holger Fischer (ed.): Professor Ferdinand Pauwels and his group of students . "Haus der Heimat", Freital 1990 (book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).
Regina Wesche: The painting of the Cloth Hall in Ypres by Ferdinand Pauwels 1870–1871. A study on 19th century Belgian history painting, Master's thesis, University of Kiel 1997.
Walther Scheidig: The History of the Weimar School of Painting 1860-1900 . Seemann, Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-363-00538-5
Jutta Krauß (ed.), Grit Jacobs: Luther's pictorial biography: the former Reformation rooms of the Wartburg . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2647-7

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Todtenschau . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 4, 1904, p. 286.
↑ Martin Luther - A postcard album , Verlag Koehler & Amelang (VOB), Leipzig, 1983, Fig. 2 u. List of figures (p. 87; original location of the painting according to the original postcard from Bruckmann Verlag : "Wartburg, Lutherzimmer")
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g images at Bildindex.de The painting titles were taken from: Grit Jacobs: Luthers Bilderbiografie […] , see literature

personal data
SURNAME	Pauwels, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pauwels, Guglielmus Ferdinandus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian history painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 13, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ekeren near Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH	March 26, 1904
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Todtenschau . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 4, 1904, p. 286.

[2] Martin Luther - A postcard album , Verlag Koehler & Amelang (VOB), Leipzig, 1983, Fig. 2 u. List of figures (p. 87; original location of the painting according to the original postcard from Bruckmann Verlag : "Wartburg, Lutherzimmer")

[bildindex-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g images at Bildindex.de The painting titles were taken from: Grit Jacobs: Luthers Bilderbiografie […] , see literature