Franz Rögels

Franz Rögels , also Franz Roegels (* 1821 in Kempen , Kempen district , † 1892 in Düsseldorf ), was a German history and portrait painter of the Düsseldorf school and photographer .

Life

Rögels studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1852 to 1859 . There were Josef Winter Gerst , Rudolf Wiegmann , Andreas and Karl Mueller , Heinrich Mücke , Theodor Hildebrandt and Wilhelm von Schadow his teachers. Around 1853 he intended to join the Jesuit order. At the beginning of his artistic career, Rögels made a name for himself as a history painter with religious motifs of the late Nazarene , around 1856 at an exhibition of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen with the painting Christ with Martha and Maria , but above all he appeared as a portrait painter, initially in Düsseldorf , where he lived at Marktplatz 11 in 1859 and belonged to the artists' association Malkasten , later in Barmen , where his son Andreas was born in 1870 , who was also to become a painter at the Düsseldorf school. Rögels also worked as a portrait photographer in Barmen .

When Rögels exhibited three portraits in the Kasseler Kunstverein in 1876 , including an oil portrait of the poet Emil Rittershaus from Barmen , their "sobriety" and "photographic fidelity to nature" was criticized in the journal for fine arts . Such a representation is not compatible “with the higher point of view of the portrait painter” because his task is to portray a person “according to his deeper being”.

literature

• Rögels, Franz . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume 2, p. 459.
• Rögels, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934.
• Franz Roegels . In: Kurt Schnöring (Ed.): Wuppertaler Lesebuch. Voices from three centuries . Born, Wuppertal 1988, p. 24.

Web links

• Franz Rögels , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
• Franz Rögels , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
2. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
3. ^ Hanns Peter Neuheuser (processing): Inventory of the oldest files in the Probsteiarchiv Kempen . In: Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Archivberatungsstelle (Hrsg. :): Inventories of non-state archives . Volume 37, Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1995, p. 211
4. ^ The last art exhibition in Düsseldorf . In: Deutsches Kunstblatt . Volume VIII, No. 2, edition of January 8, 1857, p. 10 ( Google Books )
5. ↑ Rögels, Franz, painters, Marktstr. 11 . In: Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for the year 1858 . New series, first year, p. 68
6. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal
7. ↑ Should a portrait be true to life? In: Paul Eduard Liesegang (ed.): Photographisches Archiv. Reports on the progress of photography . No. 339, p. 179 ( Google Books )