Friedrich August Bouterwek

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Friedrich August Bouterwek (born February 9, 1806 in Friedrichshütte near Tarnowitz (today: Tarnowskie Góry ) in Upper Silesia ; † November 11, 1867 in Paris ) was a German history painter .

Live and act

After the first school years in his hometown, Friedrich August Bouterwek attended the Joachimsthal Gymnasium from 1820 and later the French Gymnasium in Berlin. There he received lessons in drawing from the painter August von Kloeber and the architect Johann Matthäus von Mauch (1792-1856).

From 1822 began his studies at the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts , where he was a student of Karl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder , among others . J. was. During this time, numerous portraits of Berlin personalities were created. In the annual academy exhibitions that he sent from 1826 to 1848, however, he mainly took part with motifs from ancient mythology and the Old Testament . With the painting Ägeus recognizes his son Theseus and prevents him from drinking the poison of Medea , Bouterwek won the competition for history painting in 1832 and was awarded the “Grand State Prize” awarded by the Academy. A three-year travel grant was associated with this, which enabled him to continue his education in Rome and other places.

In order to expand his knowledge of oil painting, Bouterwek went to Paris via Düsseldorf, Aachen, Brussels and Valenciennes in 1833 and was accepted into the studio of the history painter Paul Delaroche . After working for a year, he traveled to Rome via Venice, Mantua, Bologna and Florence in 1834 and met Horace Vernet , the history painter and director of the Académie de France à Rome . After a short stay with Vernet in Turin, Bouterwek returned to Paris in 1835.

Still working in Delaroche's studio, he made a few copies of paintings for the “Musée historique de Versailles” in 1835/1836 on behalf of the French King Louis-Philippe I and was registered in the list of copyists of the Musée du Louvre in 1836 . In 1838 he accompanied Horace Vernet to Berlin, where she received orders from the Russian Tsar Nicholas I and the Prussian royal house, in the reign of Friedrich Wilhelm III. , received. Then Bouterwek finally settled in Paris.

In the 1840s, he mainly occupied himself with church painting in Paris and the surrounding area . His friend, architect Jakob Ignaz Hittorf, arranged many orders for him . In addition, Bouterwek created numerous historical pictures. As at the Berlin academy exhibitions, he also regularly showed his works at the Salon de Paris from 1837 to 1863 . The painting Isaac's Meeting with Rebekah was awarded the first class gold medal in 1841. An article in the fiction supplement "Didaskalia" in the Frankfurter Journal shows that the work was not noticed by everyone in advance:

“The Pariser Journals”, […], hadn't paid a single syllable to the painting by the modest German artist, and even the director of the museum, who only sponsors the artists recommended to him, left Mr. Bouterwek's great work, The Meeting of Isaac Introducing Rebekah, hang up in a dark corner. So it so happened that, while so many French quirks were touted as paintings by Werth, no one, with the exception of the Revue du Salon, […] found a word to emphasize a solid German artistic talent. Ludwig Philipp alone [...] recognized the merit of the beautiful painting by Mr. Bouterwek, and [...] had [...] the first class gold medal delivered to Mr. Bouterwek a few days ago; It is noteworthy that this year the King only distributed two other first class gold medals, although the exhibition counted 2000 numbers. "

- Didaskalia. Leaves for mind, spirit and publicity. No. 193, July 12, 1841

In the years 1841 and 1845 Bouterwek also sent the art exhibitions in Boulogne-sur-Mer and in 1841 in Lyon and Cologne. He also traveled to London in 1846 on behalf of Louis-Philipps to make copies of paintings by the Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Elder at Hampton Court Palace . J. to make.

Despite his artistic successes, Friedrich August Bouterwek apparently had financial problems. From a letter to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. It emerges that he asked for a position at the Prussian court in 1852. Since the request was not granted, he stayed in Paris and died there in 1867, now a French citizen.

Works (selection)

The declaration of love
The painter and his muse
Encounter on the "Field of the Cloth of Gold" on June 7, 1520
  • Hercules and Omphale (in Glienicke Palace , Berlin)
  • Orestes pursued by the Furies
  • Triton and Nereid
  • Hagen and the Danube Mermaids (presented at the academy exhibition in 1830)
  • Aegeus and Theseus , 1832
  • Haimon and Kreon , 1832
  • Orestes pursued by the Eumenides, at the Omphalos in Pytho , 1833/1834
  • Romeo's farewell to Juliet , 1836
  • Virtuoso champêtre (presented at the Salon de Paris in 1838)
  • An evening on the Capo di Sorrento (presented at the academy exhibition in 1839)
  • The meeting of Isaac with Rebekah , 1840
  • Philip baptizes Kandake, the chamberlain of the Moorish queen
  • Bacchant with Bacchante
  • The declaration of love
  • The painter and his muse
  • L'aubade , 1848
  • Encounter on the " Field of the Cloth of Gold " on June 7, 1520
  • Further images with religious motifs for the Paris churches of Saint-Ambroise, Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet , Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas , Saint-Vincent-de-Paul and Saint-Denis in Argenteuil, among others

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich August Bouterwek  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Crecelius: Bouterwek, Friedrich August. In: ADB, p. 216.
  2. ↑ Royal Academic University for the Fine Arts in Berlin: For the jubilee celebration 1696–1896. Schuster, Berlin 1896, p. 141 urn : nbn: de: gbv: wim2-g-3898673 .
  3. ^ Lisa Hackmann: Friedrich August Bouterwek. In: Paris apprenticeship years…. P. 31 f.
  4. ^ Lisa Hackmann: Friedrich August Bouterwek. In: Paris apprenticeship years…. P. 32.
  5. ^ Lisa Hackmann: Friedrich August Bouterwek. In: Paris apprenticeship years…. P. 32 f.
  6. ↑ a b Lisa Hackmann: Friedrich August Bouterwek. In: Paris apprenticeship years…. P. 33.
  7. ^ Lisa Hackmann: Friedrich August Bouterwek. In: Paris apprenticeship years…. P. 31.
personal data
SURNAME Bouterwek, Friedrich August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bouterveck, Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichshütte near Tarnowitz
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1867
Place of death Paris