Friedrich Koch (painter)

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Friedrich Koch (born December 25, 1859 in Kappeln , † January 13, 1947 in Großenwieden ) was a German painter . He stood out above all by painting numerous buildings, including as a church painter for 30 churches . He also worked as an illustrator and restorer .

Live and act

Friedrich Koch attended the Hanover trade school and was registered as resident in Hanover several times between 1881 and 1899 in the last fifth of the 19th century. During this period he was enrolled from 1883 to 1885 and again in 1887 at the Technical University of Hanover for the subjects of life drawing and modeling. From 1883 to 1886 he was a student of the court painter Friedrich Kaulbach .

From 1886 Koch worked as an independent church painter in Hanover. There he painted numerous private houses and churches in collaboration with the architect Eduard Wendebourg , a total of around 30 churches built by Wendebourg between 1902 and 1915.

Koch married Alwine; a date of the wedding has not yet been determined.

From 1895 to 1908 the address book, city and business handbook of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden recorded Friedrich Koch as a painter who worked for the Koch & Wiederhold company based in Königstrasse 53 .

On April 27, 1900, Koch, like his friend Carl Wiederhold , was accepted as a senior journeyman in the construction works for the white sheet in Hanover , which was founded by Conrad Wilhelm Hase and which was already a member of Gustav Schönermark . In 1905 Koch and Wiederhold were made honorary members of the Bauhütte. The two friends lived in the same house in Hanover from 1901 to 1916 and possibly beyond, temporarily at Emilienstraße 2 II - the street was later renamed Wildermuthweg - since 1910 at Ostermannstraße 9 . Despite his work, Koch was a "non-member" of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft (AdKG).

In the 1910s in particular, Koch worked successfully as an illustrator. After the First World War , he made numerous linoleum cuts between 1919 and 1921 .

In the 1920s, Koch worked as a freelancer for the Prussian Provincial Museum in Hanover . In preparation for this activity, he attended a six-week short training course in the restoration workshop of the Berlin museums with the court painter and restorer Alois Hauser . On behalf of the museum, Koch finally restored numerous wood carvings and paintings.

In 1930 Koch was made an honorary member of the Hanoverian Bauhütte zum white paper.

In 1936, Koch left the museum.

In the middle of World War II , Friedrich Koch moved to Großenwieden in 1941. He was a brother-in-law of the Bückeburger Hof painter Carl Schramm. His daughters Anna and Carla took the painter Wiederhold in their house at Trompeterstrasse 28 in Bückeburg after the air raids on Hanover in 1943 had destroyed Wiederhold's studio and apartment .

Ferdy Horrmeyer was one of Koch's students . His estate from the years 1886–1923 is kept in the State Church Archives Hanover under N 117.

Works (selection)

In addition to the painting of numerous villas and castles, the following works by Koch are particularly known:

Koch's paintings in St. Alexander in Willershausen (Kalefeld) have been preserved.

literature

  • Stefanie Lindemeier: The performing art and church painters , as well as a short biography of Koch, Friedrich , in this: Studies on the restoration history of medieval vaults - and wall paintings in the area of ​​today's Lower Saxony: Representation of historical methods, technology and materials , dissertation 2009 at the University of Fine Arts Künste Dresden, Volume 2 (text volume), passim , v. a. Pp. 313-314; Digitized version of the Dresden University of Fine Arts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Manfred Koenig: The painter Carl Wiederhold. Notes on biography and work . in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Vol. 59, Hanover 2005, pp. 63–82, here: p. 65
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw Stefanie Lindemeier: The performing art and church painters , as well as a short biography of Koch, Friedrich , in this: Studies on the restoration history of medieval vaults - and wall paintings in the area of ​​today's Lower Saxony: Representation of historical methods, technology and materials , dissertation 2009 at the University of Fine Arts Künste Dresden, Volume 2 (text volume), passim , v. a. Pp. 313-314; Digitized version of the Dresden University of Fine Arts
  3. ↑ Church news. ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) On the website of the Dahlenburg community, accessed on September 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ Ulfrid Müller: The St. Osdag Church in Neustadt-Mandelsloh: a representative sacred building from the early Staufer period. Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2004, p. 210.
  5. ↑ Ernst Wehr: The Wülfeler chapel. ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) On the website of the Matthäikirchengemeinde Hannover-Würfel, accessed on September 26, 2014.
  6. ↑ Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , Volumes 35–38, 1981, p. 210.
  7. ↑ Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1992, p. 1375.
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Kappeln
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1947
Place of death Grossenwieden