Friedrich Karl Hausmann

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Friedrich Karl Hausmann (born September 23, 1825 in Hanau ; † March 10, 1886 ibid) was a German painter , local researcher and director of the drawing academy in Hanau .

Life

As the son of the goldworker and engraver Ernst Wilhelm Hausmann, Friedrich Karl Hausmann began studying at the Hanau Drawing Academy at the age of twelve, where his academic teacher Theodor Pélissier trained him first as a draftsman and then as a painter. 1848-51 ABA Antwerp together with his childhood friend Georg Cornicelius under Laurentius Dykmans and Gustaaf Wappers On September 2, 1848 he went with his friend and classmate Georg Cornicelius to the Antwerp Art Academy , where they studied with Laurentius Dykmans and Gustave Wappers . However, they soon left them with differing views on the Antwerp school. During this time he developed his friendship with Anselm Feuerbach , with whom he later worked in Paris. He first turned to the Netherlands to study paintings by Rembrandt and other Dutch painters in Amsterdam and The Hague , which he copied on sketchbooks and canvas. In Scheveningen he was impressed by the sea and its special coloring, experiences that are later often found in his paintings. In 1851 he moved to Paris, where he worked with the brothers Gustav and Louis Spangenberg , Wilhelm Lindenschmit and Rudolf Hennberg in Thomas Couture's studio and continued his studies there. In 1854 he moved to Italy, where he mainly created landscape paintings in Olevano and Tivoli that were flooded with air and light. But just a year later he returned to Germany and settled in Frankfurt am Main as a freelance painter from 1855 to 1864 . He used the sketches and studies he made while traveling to compose new paintings, but also created drawings and templates for the lithographic establishment of Bernhard Dondorf (1809–1902) in Frankfurt's Saalgasse to secure his income . In 1857 he was a co-founder of the Frankfurt Artists Society .

When, after Pélissier's death, the “Akademieinspectorstelle” in Hanau became vacant, he applied to be his successor and in 1864 was appointed to the Hanau Drawing Academy. Appointed director in 1870, it was fifteen years before he received the title of professor. He converted the private drawing school into the still existing college for precious metal craftsmen. Since the teaching in Hanau left him little time, only a few paintings by his hand come from these years, among which the new ceiling painting in Philippsruhe Castle from 1880 should be emphasized. In Hanau he trained a large number of capable students, some of whom later became outstanding artists themselves. The new building of the drawing academy on Akademiestrasse, which was then and is still used today, was built under his leadership. It was a special honor for him to carry out a study on the development of German compared to French art at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867 on behalf of the Prussian government. His paintings can be found in the Hamburger Kunsthalle , the Städel in Frankfurt and the Hanau Historical Museum .

In 1871 he joined the Hanau History Society and, as a conservator, promoted systematic excavations, restoration and graphic documentation of the finds from numerous excavations by the society in the Hanau area. Outstanding are his drawings of Franconian grave finds near Hanau- Mittelbuchen and Roman grave finds in Hanau and Erlensee - Rückingen .

He was underestimated as an artist all his life and only became known to a wider audience two decades after his death at the exhibition of the century of German art in the National Gallery of Berlin. Since his painting style was only in line with the trend half a century later, the artist was now unduly glorified and his career could almost be seen as an artist's tragedy. A street in Hanau is named after Hausmann.

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Karl Siebert:  Hausmann, Friedrich Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 773-776.
  • Wilhelm Kaulen: joys and sorrows in the life of German artists. Frankfurt a. M. 1878, pp. 369-373.
  • H. Becker: German painter. Leipzig 1888, pp. 213-215 u. 305
  • Hausmann, Friedrich Karl . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 2 : Gaab – Lezla . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 140 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Emil Schaeffer : Friedrich Karl Hausmann, A German Artist Fate. Berlin 1907.
  • Karl Siebert, In: Monthly books for art history literature. 2nd volume issue 10, 1906, p. 181 f.
  • Karl Siebert: Hanauer biographies from three centuries (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter NF 3/4. ) Hanauer Geschichtsverein, Hanau 1919, pp. 79–81.
  • Hausmann, Friedrich Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 147-148 .
  • Dr. Lotz: Cornicelius and Hausmann, two Hanau painters of the nineteenth century. In: Hanauisches Magazin. Volume 4, 1925, No. 12, pp. 113-144.
  • Karl Ludwig Krauskopf: 150 years of the Hanauer Geschichtsverein (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter. 33), Hanau 1994, passim; esp. 306f.
  • Anton Merk: Hausmann, Friedrich Karl. In: Art Encounters Frankfurt - Hanau. Interrelationships in the painting of two main cities. Hanau / Frankfurt 1995, ISBN 3-00-000168-9 , p. 104.
  • Anton Merk: Hausmann, Friedrich Karl . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 70, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023175-5 , p. 224.
  • Annabelle Hosie: Hausmann, Friedrich Karl. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Karl Hausmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Allgeyer , Anselm Feuerbach (2nd edition) Berlin / Stuttgart 1904, Volume I, 170 f.
  2. ^ Emil Schaeffer, Friedrich Karl Hausmann: A German artist fate. Berlin 1907
  3. ^ Karl Siebert:  Hausmann, Friedrich Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 773-776.
personal data
SURNAME Hausmann, Friedrich Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1886
Place of death Hanau