Franz Reiff

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Franz Reiff

Franz Reiff (born January 12, 1835 in Aachen ; † April 11, 1902 there ) was a German portrait and history painter who was appointed professor for figure and landscape drawing at RWTH Aachen University in 1870 and who founded the Reiff Museum through his will prompted. The Reiff Museum is now assigned to the Chair of Art History at RWTH Aachen University, so that Alexander Markschies has also been director of the Reiff Museum since 2003.

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Friedrich Adolph Brüggemann, painting from 1870
Friedrich Christian von Kühlwetter, painting from 1870

In Reiff's oeuvre one finds particularly often portraits and paintings of historical events, which often have a moralizing character. He painted in the theatrical and Franco-Belgian influenced painting style conveyed by his teacher Carl Theodor von Piloty . This was not very innovative and mostly corresponded to the valid academic rules. There are no innovations in painting or experiments to be found in his works. Twenty paintings and several different larger sketches of historical paintings are known by name.

  1. Church punishment for a fallen woman
  2. Portrait SM of the German Emperor Wilhelm I , painted after life
  3. Mother's happiness
  4. Finding Moses
  5. Queen Augusta
  6. Forest nymph
  7. The noble ladies
  8. Councilor Brüggemann
  9. Friedrich von Kühlwetter
  10. After the thunderstorm
  11. Queen Marie of Bavaria
  12. Faun chasing a nymph
  13. Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance
  14. Still life
  15. Victim of madness
  16. Herrenchiemsee , landscape study
  17. Konradin receives his death sentence while playing chess
  18. Self portrait
  19. Life-size portrait = study head of Kaiser Wilhelm I, painted from nature
  20. Mother of the artist
  21. Little neighbor

literature

  • Martina Dlugaiczyk: Franz Reiff. In: General artist lexicon, international artist database online, DeGruyter November 22, 2012.
  • Martina Dlugaiczyk: A museum gets a face - Franz Reiff in a portrait. In: Aachener Kunstblätter. 65 (2011-2013), 2014, ISBN 978-3-930594-41-2 , pp. 207-215. (Contains list of works as of January 2014, list of exhibitions, list of sources and references and, for the first time, a portrait photograph of the artist)
  • Martina Dlugaiczyk, Alexander Markschies (Ed.): Exemplary. Painting copies in a new light. The Reiff Museum of the RWTH Aachen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-06885-8 .
  • Martina Dlugaiczyk: From the 'Grand Tour en miniature' to the avant-garde 'special case' - the Reiff Museum at the Technical University in Aachen. In: Dominik Groß, Stefanie Westermann (eds.): From image to knowledge? Visualization concepts in the sciences (= studies of the AKWG. 1). Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89958-342-7 , pp. 61-91.
  • Martina Dlugaiczyk: The Reiff Museum. Autopsy of a collection. In: Dominik Groß (ed.): The Aachen competence center for the history of science. Proceedings-Band, Aachen 2006, ISBN 3-8322-5817-5 , pp. 91-100.
  • Martina Dlugaiczyk, Alexander Markschies: The Reiff Museum of the RWTH Aachen. On the past and future of an academic institution. In: RWTH Topics: Architecture. Reports from the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen. Issue 1/2005, p. 77.
  • Martin Turck: The Reiff Museum of the Technical University of Aachen: academic art museum and contemporary avant-garde in the province . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Alfter 1994, ISBN 3-929742-18-7 .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Martin Turck: The Reiff Museum of the Royal Technical University of Aachen as an institution for the promotion of modernity . In: Dieter Breuer (ed.): Modernism in the Rhineland. Its promotion and implementation in literature, theater, music, architecture, applied and visual arts 1900–1933. Lectures by the interdisciplinary working group for research into modernity in the Rhineland . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne / Habelt, Bonn 1994, ISBN 3-7927-1391-8 , pp. 383–438, here p. 387. According to other sources, Franz Reiff died on April 13, 1902.
personal data
SURNAME Reiff, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1902
Place of death Aachen