Friedrich Christian Reinermann

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Friedrich Christian Reinermann (born October 5, 1764 in Wetzlar ; † February 7, 1835 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German landscape painter , etcher and professor at the Städelschule who worked in Wetzlar .

Friedrich Christian Reinermann: View of the Löwenburg in the Wilhelmshöhe Palace Park in Kassel; Original steel engraving around 1800
Friedrich Christian Reinermann: Limburg on the Lahn; around 1815

biography

Reinermann was born on October 5, 1764 as the son of Johann Ludwig Reinermann (1725–1809) and Anna Elisabeth born Diegel (1726–1796) from Kassel in Wetzlar. His father was a church servant and bell ringer of the Reformed congregation in Wetzlar, his main occupation was a trimmers . The name of the Reinermann family is mentioned in the Wetzlar church records at the beginning of the 18th century.

Reinermann grew up with two brothers and two sisters in Wetzlar. He received his first painting lessons from the Wetzlar portrait painter Cramer and then went as a pupil to the Frankfurt painter, copper engraver and wallpaper manufacturer Johann Andreas Benjamin Nothnagel (1729–1804). He then worked as a wallpaper painter in Wetzlar. In 1786 he was employed as a "carpenter" in Weilburg Castle. This was followed by a study visit to Kassel in 1789, where he made copies of old masters in the picture gallery.

In 1789 he traveled to Italy and spent a few months in Rome , where he was a student of Louis Ducros (1747-1810). In 1790 he married Margarethe Helene (nee Waldschmidt) from Wetzlar. From 1793 to 1803 he worked in Basel on behalf of the Basel publisher and engraver Christian von Mechel . Reinermann specialized there in aquatint etchings, large-format sheets that were printed in sepia tone. Goethe took some of these sheets into his private graphic collection.

Reinermann lived in Frankfurt am Main from 1803 to 1811 . There he married Anna Margarethe (née Hollerbach, 1781–1855), a painter of flower and fruit watercolors, in 1804. The couple had a son, Johann Philipp Reinermann (1812–1882), who became a draftsman and restorer. To avoid the chaos of war, the Reinermann family lived in Wetzlar from 1811 to 1818 and lived in a house on Pariser Gasse. In 1812, the sovereign Karl Theodor von Dalberg appointed him "Professor of Fine Arts". In 1818 Reinermann got a job as a teacher at the art school in Frankfurt am Main. In the same year presented Friedrich Wilhelm III. from Prussia Reinermann a gift of honor in recognition of his artistry.

Reinermann died in Frankfurt on February 7, 1835.

Exhibitions

  • 2015/2016: Friedrich Christian Reinermnn , Wetzlar City and Industry Museum , Wetzlar. Catalog.

Works

He created numerous oil paintings, etchings, drawings, watercolors and aquatint engravings, mostly landscapes, especially from the Lahn and Rhine valleys, but also from Switzerland and Italy.

  • The most famous work is the series of 18 atmospheric aquatint engravings, views of the Lahn from the source of the river to its mouth .
  • 24 views of the Ems and the surrounding area

literature

  • Philipp Friedrich Gwinner: Friedrich Christian Reinermann . In: Art and Artists in Frankfurt am Main - from the thirteenth century to the opening of the Städel'schen Kunstinstitut . Joseph Baer, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1862, p. 426–428 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - and contribution to Anna Margaretha Reinermann, née Hollerbach on p. 428).
  • Heinrich Weizsäcker, Albert Dessoff: Reinermann, Friedrich Christian . In: Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main in the nineteenth century . tape 2 : Biographical lexicon of Frankfurt artists in the 19th century . Joseph Bear, Frankfurt a. M. 1909, p. 117 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Heinrich Gloel: Notable personalities in the city and district of Wetzlar. In: Messages from the Wetzlar History Association. 10, 1927, pp. 7-8.
  • Reinermann, Friedrich Christian . 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, p. 120 .
  • Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography. Short biographies from 13 centuries. Wiesbaden, 1992, p. 637.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Christian Reinermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Weizsäcker, Albert Dessoff: Reinermann, Margarethe . In: Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main in the nineteenth century . tape 2 : Biographical lexicon of Frankfurt artists in the 19th century . Bear, Frankfurt a. M. 1909, p. 117 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Heinrich Weizsäcker, Albert Dessoff: Reinermann, Johann Philipp . In: Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main in the nineteenth century . tape 2 : Biographical lexicon of Frankfurt artists in the 19th century . Bear, Frankfurt a. M. 1909, p. 117 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Once famous, long forgotten. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 14, 2016, p. 40.
personal data
SURNAME Reinermann, Friedrich Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1835
Place of death Frankfurt am Main