Franz Ittenbach

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Self-Portrait , 1857
Johannes and Minna Ittenbach (brother and sister-in-law), 1842

Franz Ittenbach (born April 18, 1813 in Königswinter , † November 30, 1879 in Düsseldorf ) was a painter and belonged to the Düsseldorf group of the Nazarenes .

Life and work

Memorial plaque Altenberger Gasse 14 (2014)

Franz Ittenbach was born in what is now Altenberger Gasse 14, and the house where he was born still has a memorial plaque, made of marble in 1885. Ittenbach had initially started an apprenticeship as a businessman, but then broke it off to attend the drawing school with the painter Franz Katz in Cologne . In 1832 he moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1839 to 1842 he toured Italy . On the way back he stayed in Munich for a long time . In 1847 Ittenbach married Elisabeth Kurz (1828–1886), called Elise, from Ehrenbreitstein . In 1849 he returned to Düsseldorf, where his daughter Wilhelmine was born in 1851 and his daughter Franziska in 1853. Their son Theodor was born in 1855. From 1859 until his death he was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . Ittenbach's private student was the Belgian history and portrait painter Jozef Janssens in 1873/1874 . Another student was Heinrich Johann Sinkel from the Netherlands , who made a portrait of him. Franz Ittenbach died in his house at Hohenzollernstrasse 15. Ittenbach was buried in the family grave in Königswinter.

Ittenbach was involved in the painting of the Apollinari church in Remagen . Ittenbach received the commission for the painting of Saint Agatha , patroness of the city of Allendorf , for the right side altar in the Roman Catholic parish church of St. Antonius in the Arnsberg district through the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia .

His long-lost high altar sheet "The Baptism of Christ" from the 1906 demolished garrison church in Düsseldorf , which goes back to a competition of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia in 1847, has been preserved in the Andreaskirche (Düsseldorf) .

Ittenbach's picture “Queen of Heaven Mary”, which was carelessly cleared aside and initially intended for bulky waste, formed the occasion for a strict admonition from the Diocesan Administration of Gloucester of the Church of England to its members to better look after and examine the cultural property entrusted to them. It was only by chance that the picture escaped the planned garbage disposal and was offered at auction in the expectation of a low price. It was finally auctioned off by a London dealer on October 28, 2013 for £ 20,000. Other works by the artist fetched between $ 27,500 and $ 64,000 at auction. The Archdeacon of Cheltenham, Robert Springett, was shocked to find out later about the sale.

Works

  • Portrait of Marie Felicitas von Fürstenberg, 1839

  • Madonna and Child

  • St. Dorothea, 1850

  • Portrait of Margarete von Soist, 1849

  • Portrait of Franz Xaver von Soist, 1850

  • Madonna and Child, 1855

  • “Our Lady of the Sacred Heart”, 1876

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Ittenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marble memorial plaque on the birth house of Franz Ittenbach, made by the sculptor Clemens Rechmann, in the article in the Düsseldorfer Volksblatt (No. 263) of October 1, 1885 as Heisterbachstr. Named No. 259. ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
  2. ^ Painter Franz Ittenbach , on general-anzeiger-bonn.de, from July 24, 2012
  3. ↑ Obituary notice of Prof. Franz Ittenbach, b. Elise Kurz: at the age of 58, where he died at Klosterstrasse 47, on March 22, 1886, in Düsseldorfer Volksblatt (No. 79) on March 23, 1886 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
  4. ^ Letters from Franz Ittenbach to his son. Footnote 1: Ittenbach had two daughters: Wilhelmine (born in 1852, died in 1891 in Düsseldorf) and Franziska (born in 1853, died in Düsseldorf in 1886). In Düsseldorfer Sonntagsblatt (No. 15) of April 13, 1913 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
  5. ^ Letters from Franz Ittenbach to his son. Footnote 2: Theodor, b. on May 18, 1855, attended the Realgymnasium in Münster and died as a cand. archit. zu Detmold on January 22, 1882. In Düsseldorfer Sonntagsblatt (No. 15) of April 13, 1913 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
  6. ^ Ittenbach, Franz, painter a. Prof., Hohenzollernstrasse 15, in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office Düsseldorf 1879 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
  7. ^ Civil status of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf. Died. November 30th, Franz Ittenbach, Professor, 66 years old , husband, Hohenzollernstrasse, in Düsseldorfer Volksblatt (No. 327) of December 3rd, 1879 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
  8. ↑ From the fund for the use of public purposes from 1849–1850 of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia: c) the painter F. Ittenbach 50 th. as the first installment of the fee of 180 thalers. for that in the cath. Church to Allendorf, Arnsberg district to be donated altarpiece the holy. Representing Agatha. In Düsseldorfer Journal and Kreisblatt (No. 67) of March 19, 1851 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
  9. ^ Elias H. Füllenbach , St. Andreas in the Düsseldorf Old Town, in: Places of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . Traces of the Artists in Düsseldorf, ed. from the Rhenish Association for the Preservation of Monuments and Landscape Protection, Neuss 2011 (= Rheinische Kunststätten, issue 528), pp. 68–69.
  10. ↑ Shiranikha Herbert: Chancellor lambasts 'really stupid' sale of painting ( memento of the original from October 6, 2014 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. . Article dated September 26, 2014 on churchtimes.co.uk , accessed October 2, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.churchtimes.co.uk
personal data
SURNAME Ittenbach, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter who belonged to the Düsseldorf group of Nazarenes
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigswinter
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1879
Place of death Dusseldorf