Franz Gehrts
Franz Gehrts (born May 18, 1860 in Hamburg , † October 5, 1894 in Halle an der Saale ) was a German landscape painter and illustrator from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Gehrts, son of a Hamburg master painter, was the younger brother of the painters Carl Gehrts and Johannes Gehrts . He received his artistic training in Düsseldorf , Munich and Weimar . In Düsseldorf he was a private student of the well-known hunting and landscape painter Christian Kröner . After completing his studies, he lived in Düsseldorf, where, like his brothers, he belonged to the artists' association Malkasten . He mainly worked as an illustrator for magazines, for example for Die Gartenlaube and the Fliegende Blätter or the monthly magazines from Daheim . He also supported his brother Carl with the execution of wall paintings. In 1887 he and the Hanoverian church painter Oscar Wichtendahl made allegorical friezes in the Hotel-Restaurant Münker-Kaletsch (“Café Central”, Königsallee 32) in Düsseldorf based on sketches by his brother Carl . At the suggestion of Otto von Ernst , he lived in the United States in 1890 in order to decorate a theater in Milwaukee together with Ferdinand Thomas (1858–1921) under Ernst's guidance . Most recently Gehrts lived as a landscape painter in Halle an der Saale, whose municipal museum for art and art history received the artist's artistic estate in 1894, consisting of 130 paintings, studies and drawings.
literature
- Gehrts, Franz . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 339 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Gehrts, Franz . In: Peter C. Merrill: German-American Artists in Early Milwaukee. A Biographical Dictionary . Friends of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, Madison / Wisconsin 1997, p. 30.
Web links
- Franz Gehrts , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on November 16, 2019
- ↑ See, for example, illustration of the burial of Carnival in Stockach . In: Die Gartenlaube , year 1889, p. 141
- ^ Research by Franz Gehrt in the portal heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de , accessed on November 16, 2019
- ↑ Illustration in: Adolf Rosenberg : From the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Studies and sketches . Publisher by EA Seemann, Leipzig 1890, p. 50
- ^ Peter C. Merrill: German-American painters in Wisconsin . German-American Studies, Volume 16, Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Stuttgart 1997, p. 80
- ^ Report on the status and administration of community affairs in the city of Halle a. S. Halle 1894, p. 155
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gehrts, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 1894 |
| Place of death | Halle on the Saale |