Franz Hengsbach (painter)
Franz Hengsbach (born December 18, 1812 in Werl , Grand Duchy of Hesse , † February 25, 1883 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
He is registered as Franz Heinrich Steinau in the St. Walburga baptismal register in Werl . By changing his maiden name to Franz Hengsbach, he had successfully concealed the fact that he had been born out of wedlock. In all art lexicons he is given with the surname Hengsbach and the year of birth 1814. His Catholic mother was called Katharina Steinau and had a relationship with a musketeer stationed in Werl, whose name was Adam Hengsbach, who came from Bödefeld and was paid for by the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt . Werl belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse until 1816 before it became Prussian .
Hengsbach attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1833 . From 1834 to 1840 he was a pupil of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's landscape class . After Hengsbach had painted motifs in the Düsseldorf area, in the Rhine Province and in Westphalia in the 1830s , he turned to the lake and mountain motifs of the Alpine countries from the 1840s. From 1836 on, Hengsbach, who was based in Düsseldorf and belonged to the artists' association Malkasten , exhibited in Berlin, Leipzig, Danzig and Breslau, among others.
Works (selection)
- Wooded Rhine landscape with a view of a harbor , 1838
- The Achensee in Tyrol , 1862
- Wide, Arcadian landscape with a shepherd and his flock by the course of the river , 1866
- View of Salzburg
- Staufen near Salzburg
- Mill in Tyrol
- Gosau waterfall in Austria
- The Hallstätter See
- Hohentwiel and Lake Constance
- Alps near Lake Maggiore
- Huts on the Seelisberg on Lake Lucerne
- Lauterbrunnenthal
literature
- Hermann Püttmann : The Düsseldorf school of painting and its achievements since the establishment of the art association in 1829. A contribution to modern art history . Verlag von Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1839, p. 214 ( Google Books )
- Hengsbach, Franz . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 249 ( digitized version )
- Hengsbach, Franz. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Painter works of the 19th century, contribution to art history. Dresden 1898, Volume 1, pp. 494-495. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Franz Hengsbach , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtarchiv Werl, Coll. Bürger. Research by city archivist a. D. Heinrich Josef Deisting, Werl.
- ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on May 1, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hengsbach, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Werl |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1883 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |