Franz Cremer

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Franz Gerhard Cremer (born March 24, 1845 in Düsseldorf ; † December 8, 1908 there ) was a German history painter of the Nazarene movement of the Düsseldorf School . He also appeared as a restorer and as an author of art historical and painting-technical writings.

Life

Cremer, son of the wealthy Düsseldorf businessman, soap manufacturer and iron and steel shareholder Engelbert Cremer, grew up in Düsseldorf and studied painting and art history at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1863 to 1869 . There Andreas and Karl Müller , Julius Roeting , Rudolf Wiegmann and Josef Kohlschein were his teachers. In 1869 Cremer was one of the signatories of a letter published in the press to the Berlin Ministry of Education, in which 38 academy students protested against the appointment of Hermann Wislicenus as professor of history painting. He later joined Wilhelm Sohn . At the beginning of 1884 Cremer joined the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine . On May 6, 1884, he married Walburga Kallen (1855–1925) in Cologne , where he was living as a history painter at the time. The couple had ten children, five daughters and five sons. The daughter Adelgundis (1885-1914) married the entrepreneur and banker Peter Wilhelm Werhahn from Neuss on February 5, 1907 , who after her death on November 20, 1917 married her sister Magdalene (1896-1991). By 1889 at the latest, Cremer lived again in Düsseldorf, in the house at Ritterstrasse No. 2, which was owned by the family with No. 4 and No. 6. Franz Cremer's grandfather Peter bought the building in 1811 in which Cremer's father built a candle factory.

In 1883 he worked as a restorer for the Duisburg Salvatorkirche , where he restored whitewashed wall and ceiling paintings. He published works on the history of fresco and oil painting from 1891 to 1902. From 1904 onwards, Cremer wrote several articles for the magazine for Christian art published by Alexander Schnütgen . He served as secretary on the board of this magazine for several years.

Fonts

  • A few words on the interior decoration and repair of the St. Lambertus parish church in Düsseldorf , manuscript, printed by Düsseldorfer Volksblatt, Düsseldorf 1889 ( digitized ).
  • Contribution to the history of painting techniques. Complete instructions for fresco painting with a detailed discussion of the painting style and the materials to be used in this technique. Voss, Düsseldorf 1891.
  • Studies on the history of oil paint technology. Voss, Düsseldorf 1895.
  • Contributions to the technique of monumental painting. Voss, Düsseldorf 1895.
  • On the oil painting technique of the ancients. Further research into the beginning of oil painting. Voss, Düsseldorf 1902.
  • On the representation of the naked in the fine arts and the question of models . In: Journal of Christian Art. 1904, Issue 2, pp. 49–58 ( digitized version ), Issue 3, p. 81–90 ( digitized version ), Issue 4, pp. 109–116 ( digitized version ), Issue 6, pp. 165–174 ( digitized version )
  • A review of "modern art" in the international art exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1904. In: Journal for Christian Art. 1904, issue 12, pp. 365–374 ( digitized version ), 1905, issue 1, p. 23–30 ( digitized version ), issue 2, p. 47–58 ( digitized version), issue 3, p. 81–94 ( digitized version ), Issue 7, pp. 205–216 ( digitized version )
  • Our artists and public life. In: Journal of Christian Art. 1906, Issue 5, pp. 153–160 ( digitized version ), Issue 7, pp. 203–212 ( digitized version), Issue 8, p. 247–252 ( digitized version ), Issue 9, pp. 275–282 ( digitized version ) Issue 10, pp. 305-312 ( digitized version), issue 12, pp. 363-368 ( digitized version ).
  • Considerations when considering the "German National Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf". A contribution to the state “housekeeping” . In: Journal of Christian Art . 1907, issue 4, pp. 113–126 ( digitized version ).
  • Artist and workshop. Voss, Düsseldorf 1913.
  • Art education and tradition. Three postponed essays. Voss, Düsseldorf 1918.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Seeling: The ironworks in Heerdt and Mülheim am Rhein. In: Writings on Rhenish-Westphalian economic history. Volume 24, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln, Cologne 1972, p. 18.
  2. ↑ See nos. 2187–2204 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive ).
  3. ^ Wolfgang Hütt : Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1869. VEB EA Seemann Buch- und Kunstverlag, Leipzig 1984, p. 252, footnote 319.
  4. ^ Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine . Volume 43, Issue 1 (December 1885).
  5. ^ Cremer, Franz, history painter , entry in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf 1889.
  6. ↑ Peter Klucken: First lightning, then iconoclasm . Article from June 8, 2013 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on September 11, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Cremer, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cremer, Franz Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1908
Place of death Dusseldorf