Fidelis Bentele (painter)
Fidelis Bentele (born April 5, 1830 in Tettnang , † March 27, 1901 in Stuttgart ) was a German animal , history and church painter .
Live and act
Fidelis Bentele was trained in painting from 1846 to 1849 at the Munich Academy and from 1850 under Bernhard von Neher at the Stuttgart Art School . He received a scholarship and lived in Rome from 1856 to 1859. In 1859 he was appointed professor for ornament and landscape drawing at the building trade school in Stuttgart.
Together with Hans Martin and Wilhelm Waldraff, he carried out the interior painting from 1858–1860 as part of the restoration work on the Tettnang parish church. In Upper Swabia he made a name for himself as a church painter and created genre pieces, portraits and templates for glass windows. Important paintings are “Christ on the Cross” in the St. Jakobskirche in Ravensburg , the “Barmherzige Samariter” in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and “Amor und Psyche” in private ownership. Further works are exhibited today in the Tettnang Montfort Museum .
family
He was the son of the veterinarian Josef Bentele in Tettnang and Franziska Günther. In Stuttgart he married Ulrike Mathilde Mährle in 1863 (born August 6, 1827 Lustnau ; † February 13, 1912 in Rottweil ). He was Catholic and was buried in Stuttgart at the Fangelsbach cemetery.
Known students
- Antonie Boubong (1842–1908), portrait, genre and landscape painter.
Others
Since 1884 he was an honorary member of the Catholic student association AV Guestfalia Tübingen .
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Bentele, Fidelis . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 352 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Karl Heinz Burmeister : History of the city of Tettnang. UVK, Konstanz 1997, ISBN 3-87940-595-6 , pp. 206, 246 f., 373.
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to Thieme-Becker, the date of death is given as March 28, 1901. On the other hand, March 27, 1901 is mentioned in Die Kunst für Alle ( 16.1900 / 1901, p. 388 ).
- ↑ Fidelis Bentele on the Oberschwaben portal.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bentele, Fidelis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German animal, history and church painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tettnang |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1901 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |