Franz Johann Wilhelm Hünten

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Franz Johann Wilhelm Hünten (born May 2, 1822 in Hamburg ; † March 2, 1887 there ) was a German marine painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, Hünten became a student of Friedrich Heimerdinger in Hamburg. Thanks to a scholarship, he then attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he was a student in Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's landscape class in 1847/1848 . He was also a private student of the slightly older Düsseldorf marine painter Hermann Mevius , with whom he went on study trips to the North Sea coast. In 1850 he returned to Hamburg. From there he went on study trips to Scandinavia, England, Scotland, the Atlantic and the Orient. In 1887 he died in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel . Hünten was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . The painter Lüder Arenhold was his pupil.

Works (selection)

At the North Sea , oil on canvas, date unknown
  • Stormy Seas , 1854
  • Fishing Boats in a Troubled Sea , 1856
  • Ships off the coast of Dover , 1880
  • Evening in the Kiel Fjord , 1884
  • At the North Sea , Albert König Museum

literature

  • Maike Bruhns: Hünten, Franz (Johann Wilhelm) . In: Kai Rump (Ed.): Der Neue Rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Neumünster 2005, pp. 202–203
  • Thieme-Becker , Volume 18 (1925), p. 62

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Franz Johann Wilhelm Hünten , website in the portal hamburgerpersoenitäten.de , accessed on July 28, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Hünten, Franz Johann Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German marine painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1887
Place of death Hamburg