Ferdinand Ruscheweyh

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Portrait of Ferdinand Ruscheweyh, State Museum Schwerin

Ferdinand Ruscheweyh (* 1785 in Neustrelitz ; † December 21, 1846 there ) was a German engraver .

Life

He began his training in 1803 with Daniel Berger in Berlin and went to Vienna in 1804 , where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts . In Vienna he made prints according to the old masters and came into contact with Franz Pforr . In November 1808 he moved to Rome , where he joined Peter Cornelius and Friedrich Overbeck and until 1832 frequented circles of the Nazarenes and other German Romans . In 1814 he converted to the Catholic faith there. In 1815 he belonged to Cornelius, Overbeck, Franz Riepenhausen , Johann Nepomuk Schaller , Rudolf Schadow and Carl Sieg on the board of the "Aid Fund", which had been set up in Rome for needy German-speaking artists. As a well-known artist and close friend of Caroline von Humboldt - parts of an exchange of letters have been preserved - he participated in several exhibitions, including in 1819 and 1828 in the Palazzo Caffarelli . From 1821 he worked for the German library. The publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta gave him numerous commissions.

Ruscheweyh's works include prints after Domenichino's St. Nilo in Grottaferrata (1813), Taddeo Gaddi's Last Supper in Florence (1821), Michelangelo's Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel (1827) and Raphael's Sibyls in Santa Maria della Pace (1831) .

In 1815 he engraved twelve sheets of Goethe's Faust after Peter von Cornelius. At least ten prints based on works by Friedrich Overbeck are documented, as well as engravings based on drawings by Johann Martin von Wagner of the Temple of Apollo near Bassae and the illustrations for Schiller's Eleusic Festival (1817).

On the waters of Babylon ... , engraving after the painting The Mourning Jews in Exile by Bendemann, 1832

On June 12, 1832, Ruscheweyh left Rome and traveled via Munich and Frankfurt to Düsseldorf, where he stabbed Eduard Bendemann's Die Mrauernden Juden im Exile for the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen . In 1833 he moved back to Neustrelitz, where he first completed an engraving based on Pforr's legend on a commissioned basis and then independently engraved Ruth and Boas and the virtuous woman in Overbeck. There was Heinrich Gärtner his student. Ruscheweyh had to stop working in 1838 because of an eye problem.

The State Museum Schwerin owns a number of Ruscheweyh's copperplate engravings. An extensive collection of Ruschewey's works is housed in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco . The Ruscheweyh engraved Cornelius illustrations for Faust can be seen in the Goethe Museum Düsseldorf .

In 2016 the State Museum acquired Ruschewey's estate. This includes a self-portrait, an autobiography and eight sketchbooks with travel experiences and vedute from Italy. On this occasion, in spring 2017 the museum presented the cabinet exhibition A Mecklenburg in Rome Ferdinand Ruscheweyh - a rediscovery .

Works (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Ruscheweyh  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 1, p. 382
  2. ^ Friedrich Noack, Volume 1, p. 499, Volume 2, p. 504
  3. ^ Friedrich Noack, Volume 1, p. 465
  4. ^ Friedrich Noack, Volume 2, p. 504
  5. ↑ Ferdinand Ruscheweyh , entry in the goethezeitportal.de portal , accessed on August 12, 2020
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2007 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-schwerin.de
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 7, 2008 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wwar.com
  8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 2015 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.goethe-museum-kippenberg-stiftung.de
  9. ↑ Digital copies of the sketchbooks
  10. ↑ A Mecklenburg in Rome Ferdinand Ruscheweyh - a rediscovery ( memento of the original from January 25, 2017 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 January 25, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-schwerin.de
personal data
SURNAME Ruscheweyh, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Engraver
DATE OF BIRTH 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1846
Place of death Neustrelitz