Friedrich Joseph husband

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Friedrich "Fritz" Joseph's husband , also Friedrich Joseph Ehmant (born February 21, 1804 in Frankfurt am Main , † January 12, 1842 in Munich ), was a German landscape painter and etcher from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Information on the parents' home, childhood and youth is missing. Although he took drawing lessons from Christian Georg Schütz the Elder. J. and is said to have had contact with Anton Radl , he went to Heidelberg in 1824 to study law . Health reasons forced him to drop out of his studies in 1828.

After returning to his hometown, he attended the Städelschule as a special student of Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer from August 1832 to summer 1833 . Then Husband moved for four years to the Düsseldorf Art Academy , directed by Wilhelm Schadow , which was one of the most important schools of landscape painting at the time of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , in whose landscape class Husband stayed from 1833 to 1836 .

After briefly returning to Frankfurt am Main in 1837 , her husband went on a study trip to Munich , where he finally moved in 1840. There he died of typhoid at the age of 37 . The whereabouts and possible location of the grave are unknown.

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In the course of his short creative period, Nahrant left behind a series of oil paintings that can be assigned to romantic landscape painting and are characterized by a solemn, idealizing composition in the sense of the “Schirmer School”. Gladly showed architectural motifs as the focus of his pictures. The following should be mentioned as selection:

Frankfurt am Main (1836)
(Aquatint by Frédéric Martens based on a copy by her husband: Vues pittoresques de Francfort sur le Mein et de ses Environs. )
  • At the height of the Black Forest, evening lighting
  • Eltz castle courtyard
  • River area
  • Mill in the mountains
  • Need of God at Rüdesheim
  • Forest section

There are also some hand and ink drawings , some of them from the architectural genre , as well as a few etchings . Just as the subjects are mainly distributed over the Main , Taunus , Lahn , Rhine , Mosel and Ahr , the current private owners of these works - apart from the Frankfurt Historical Museum and the Städel - are primarily to be found in the wider Rhine-Main area .

In addition, he also worked as an illustrator: in 1836 Carl Jügel published a small-format view of his hometown with 23 aquatint etchings under the title Vues pittoresques de Francfort sur le Mein et de ses Environs , for which he created the preliminary drawings. Today it is very much in demand in the art trade, with individual sheets being found more frequently.

Further works from this activity can be found in the Vues pittoresques du Rhin, de Francfort sur Mein, Wiesbade, Ems, Schwalbach, Schlangenbad , which were published at about the same time by the same publisher, as well as the 80 aquatint etchings of the extended Rhine-Main area based on models by Husband and Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann include. His monumental panorama of the Free City of Frankfurt am Main, taken from the tower of the Deutsch-Haus church in Sachsenhausen , was also reproduced graphically in the unusually large format of 41 × 67 cm .

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Joseph Umgebung  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 144.
personal data
SURNAME Husband, Friedrich Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehmant, Friedrich Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1842
Place of death Munich