Ferdinand Rothbart
Ferdinand Rothbart (born October 3, 1823 in Roth ; † January 31, 1899 in Munich ) was a German etcher , illustrator and history painter and curator at the royal copper engraving and hand drawing cabinet in Munich .
Life
In early childhood he came to Nuremberg with his parents . His father owned a wire mesh factory there, but died early, so that his mother and sister had to support the family with sewing work. A guardian brought him and his older brother Georg Rothbart (1817-1896) to an orphanage, where the two received their education and professional training. Influenced by his brother, who became a master builder and later chief building officer in Coburg , Ferdinand learned how to mechanically color maps and picture sheets and trained with Heinrich Ludwig Petersen in the techniques of copper engraving, etching and lithography.
From 1845 to 1848 he produced watercolors on behalf of Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha about the arrival of his sister-in-law Queen Victorias and Prince Albert in Coburg and Gotha and numerous room pictures of the ducal castles in Coburg ( Rosenau and Ehrenburg ), Gotha ( Friedrichsthal , Winterpalais ) and Reinhardsbrunn . In the early 1850s he worked for publishing houses in Stuttgart .
In 1855 he moved to Munich and, as a self-employed book illustrator, supplied various booksellers and publishers with his own works. He also trained as a painter and painted genre pictures with an architectural and landscape background. After his health was shaken by repeated hemorrhages, he was able to travel to Italy from 1860 to 1863 thanks to a grant from the “ Martin von Wagner Foundation ”, which was awarded for the first time . In Rome he made oil paintings and worked as the library librarian in the Villa Malta .
In 1871 he was hired as a curator at the royal copperplate and hand-drawing cabinet in Munich. During this time he published the works of old masters, among other things, in order to make them accessible to a wide audience. In 1885 he retired due to asthmatic complaints. After recovering from various spa stays, he turned back to painting and illustration. As long as his health conditions allowed, he also took part in all questions and matters of the Munich artists 'cooperative and was managing director of the artists' support association. On many festive occasions, on May days and carnival evenings, he provided drawings and cheerful contributions and presented living pictures, for example a “shoemaker's workshop” staged with Wilhelm Lichtenheld , full of jovial humor.
In his book illustrations, he showed relationships with Ludwig Richter , Oskar Pletsch and Albert Hendschel ; in his oil paintings and frescoes, the friendship with Arthur von Ramberg and Ferdinand Piloty can be felt in a coloristic relationship.
Works
- Illustrations for seals by Ludwig Uhland , published in steel engravings by E. Dertinger and A. Schultheiß
- Illustrations for Isabella Braun's “Jugendbl Blätter”, published since 1854
- Illustrations for the " Münchener Bilderbogen "
- Title pages to " Wieland's Complete Writings" (Leipzig 1853–1858)
- Title pages to " Schiller's Works" (Stuttgart 1853)
- Illustrations for Goethe's "Götz von Berlichen" (Berlin)
- Illustrations for Adolf Böttger's “Dichtergarben” (Westermann, Braunschweig)
- Fresco in the portico of the Veste Coburg "Bridal procession of Duke Kasimier"
- Frescoes of the historical gallery of the old Bavarian National Museum in Munich (today the Ethnographic Museum, largely destroyed)
- 1865 Altar painting with the Lamentation of Christ, Coburg, cemetery on Glockenberg , burial chapel for Christian Friedrich von Stockmar
- Illustrations for Lessing's "Nathan" (Berlin 1868)
- Illustrations for Goethe's Faust, Schiller's Don Carlos, Nikolaus Lenau's poems, Georg Scherer's “German folk songs”.
- Stained glass window for Darley , Scotland , with the four evangelists
- Kelheim and its surroundings (Regensburg 1888)
- Illustrations for Sebastian Düll's "Jugendlust" (Nuremberg 1889 ff.)
- Illustrations for Nebele's "Child Friend" (Augsburg 1891)
literature
- Friedrich von Boetticher : Painters works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2, Dresden 1898, pp. 474-475 ( digitized version ).
- Hyacinth Holland : Rothbart, Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 567-569.
- Sabine Wölfel: Biographies . In: Michael Semff , Kurt Zeitler (Hrsg.): Artists draw - collectors donate. 250 years of the State Graphic Collection in Munich . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2179-0 , Vol. 3, p. 151.
- Dinah Wijsenbeek: Rothbart, Ferdinand . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 99, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023265-3 , p. 494 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ferdinand Rothbart in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rothbart, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, draftsman and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roth |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1899 |
| Place of death | Munich |