Friedrich Adam Wilhelm Barnutz

Friedrich Adam Wilhelm Barnutz (born December 11, 1791 in Jever ; † May 10, 1867 there ) was a German painter .

biography

Friedrich Adam Wilhelm Barnutz was born as the son of castle captain Johann Christian Barnutz (1750–1817) and his wife Metta, born in the service of the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst . Friese (1766–1809), the daughter of a Jever merchant, was born in Jever. He was the third of ten children. The parents' apartment, which was above the castle gate of Jever Castle , the castle itself and the surrounding fortifications were later to have a lasting effect on Barnutz's art.

After his school education Barnutz first completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Aurich , where he learned the basics of landscape and portrait painting. In 1810 he returned to Jever, which at that time belonged to the French Empire . Barnutz, who remained autodidact throughout his life, probably received suggestions from personal contacts with other artists from the Oldenburg region , as well as from pictures by the Oldenburg court painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein . But artistically he remained a layman who provided his work with partly humorous content. A small collection of his works is in Jever Castle.

The spectrum of his work ranges from genre paintings from the Biedermeier period to local landscape paintings and portraits. His best-known pictures, which are almost exclusively painted in oil, include the depictions “The Exodus of the French from Jever in 1813” and “The Entry of the Cossacks into the Courtyard of Jever”, the latter work being created several times and also as a second production is exhibited in the Landesmuseum Oldenburg .

Furthermore, he also painted pictures of morality for publishers in Hamburg and Bremen as well as small views set on porcelain.

Barnutz's handicrafts and his estate have not yet been scientifically processed.

literature

• Uwe Meiners: Barnutz, Friedrich Adam Wilhelm. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 48 f. ( PDF ).