Friedrich Eggers

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Friedrich Eggers
Friedrich Eggers in the tunnel over the Spree , drawing by Adolph von Menzel

Hartwig Karl Friedrich Eggers (born November 27, 1819 in Rostock ; † August 11, 1872 in Berlin ) was a German art historian . He was also a member of the tunnel over the Spree and the Rütli .

Life

Friedrich Eggers was the third son of the Rostock wood and building materials dealer Christian Friedrich Eggers (1788–1858) and his wife Sophie, née. Lierow (1793-1850). After graduating from school in 1835, he learned the trade. The first attempts at writing came from these years. From 1839 to 1841 Eggers made up his Abitur in private lessons, finally began studying philology at the University of Rostock on April 14, 1842, and in the same year moved to Leipzig, where he did historical studies with Wilhelm Wachsmuth . Another change led him to Munich in 1843 to study classical archeology. After moving back to Rostock in 1844 and finally to Berlin, Eggers received his doctorate in Rostock in 1848 on the subject of art as a means of educating young people . In Berlin he made the acquaintance of Franz Kugler , who entrusted him with the drafting of a much-noticed memorandum on the reorganization of the art administration in Prussia. Eggers later wrote an excellent biography of Kugler, who had also introduced him to the literary Sunday association Tunnel over the Spree . During his studies in 1844 he became a member of the old Berlin fraternity Germania .

At Easter 1849 Friedrich Eggers joined the editorial team of the Mecklenburgische Zeitung , but returned to Berlin in the autumn of the same year and founded the Deutsches Kunstblatt there a little later . He edited it together with other members of the Rütli literary group until it was discontinued . He wrote various inscriptions for the new construction of the Schwerin Palace ; for he was at the inauguration of the castle in 1857 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II. the bronze lock medal .

At Easter 1863 Eggers was appointed as a teacher of art history at the Royal Academy of the Arts in Berlin and was given a professorship there on November 27th of that year. He was a professor at the Berlin Commercial and Building Academy. In addition to teaching, he pursued writing ambitions, which, however, remained largely unknown.

Friedrich Eggers' main work is his biography by the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch in five volumes, which he was however no longer able to complete. It was completed by his brother Karl Eggers .

In 1871 Eggers joined the Prussian Ministry of Culture and was responsible for the visual arts. He was u. a. with Theodor Fontane founder of the Ellora Association .

His friend Adolf von Wilbrandt , who also comes from Rostock, used it as a template for the figure of the bisexual Fridolin in his novel Fridolins secret marriage , which was published in 1875 when Wilbrandt was in Vienna. The mutual friend Fontane writes in his autobiographical work From Twenty to Thirty that Fridolin was “freely drawn from life” in this “charming story”.

Friedrich Eggers was an honorary member of the Academic Hut Association . He died in Berlin after a short illness. The funeral took place a few days later in his old home in Rostock.

In 1874, the poems of Friedrich Eggers appeared posthumously in a publishing house in Breslau. His younger brother Karl also acted as editor here. The first individual poems by Eggers had already been published by the poet Otto Friedrich Gruppe in 1851 for the German Muses Almanac .

Works

Letters

  • Theodor Storm's letters to Friedrich Eggers. With e. Life sketch by F. Eggers u. Poetry samples. Edited by H. Wolfgang Seidel . Curtius, Berlin 1911.
  • Theodor Fontane and Friedrich Eggers. The correspondence. With letters to Karl Eggers a. the correspondence between Friedrich Eggers and Emilie Fontane. Edited by Roland Berbig. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1997, ISBN 3-11-014987-7 (Writings of the Fontane Society, Vol. 2.).

literature

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ^ Entry (1) by Friedrich Eggers in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Entry (2) by Friedrich Eggers in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 161–162.
  4. ↑ Die Dioskuren: deutsche Kunstzeitung 2 (1857), p. 108
  5. ^ Andreas Brunner , Hannes Sulzenbacher : Schwules Wien, travel guide through the Danube metropolis , Promedia, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85371-131-6 , p. 40 f.
  6. ↑ Theodor Fontane: From twenty to thirty , F. Fontane & Co, Berlin 1898, p. 188
  7. ↑ Friedrich Eggers. In: Leaves for literary entertainment - Born 1874, first volume. , Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1874, p. 365
personal data
SURNAME Eggers, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eggers, Hartwig Karl Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1872
Place of death Berlin