Friedrich Nerly

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Friedrich Nerly: Self-Portrait 1828
Friedrich Nerly as "General and Field Marshal of the Tiber and its Bridge" (Cervaro Festival), drawn by Leopold Pollak , Rome 1832
Erwin Speckter: The artist and his friends: (from left to right: Erwin Speckter , Carl Julius Milde , Otto Speckter , Friedrich Nehrlich (Nerly))
Friedrich Nerly: Study for the portrait of Carl Friedrich von Rumohr (1823)
Friedrich Nerly: Venice at sunset
The Grotto of Posillipo (1847)
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum

Friedrich Nerly (originally Christian Friedrich Ne [h] rlich , also Federico von Nerly or Friedrich Nerly the Elder ; * November 24, 1807 in Erfurt , † October 21, 1878 in Venice ) was a German Romantic painter who , among other things, through vedute from Venice.

Life

After the early death of his father, a postal secretary in Erfurt, Friedrich Nerly was raised by his mother's brother in Hamburg from 1815 onwards. He was a musician, quickly recognized his artistic talent and promoted it. He received his first drawing lessons from his uncle's wife, then from another uncle, Heinrich Joachim Herterich , who later took him on as an apprentice in his lithographic workshop. The young Nerly also worked with the Johann Michael Speckters family , Herterich's partner. Speckter was a close friend of Philipp Otto Runge , also a student of Nerly's uncle. Nerly soon made the acquaintance of the patron Baron Carl Friedrich von Rumohr .

In 1823 Nerly became a student of Rumohr and was one of his most important alongside Franz Horny . The most important credo of the baron was "the constant study of real nature". In the summer of 1827 Nerly accompanied Rumohr on an extensive journey that finally led to Italy via the Harz Mountains , Weimar , Dresden and Munich ; he made the acquaintance of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Weimar .

At the end of 1828 he traveled to Rome alone to stay there for the time being. In that year he changed his name to Nerly out of his enthusiasm for Italy . According to his own admission, apart from Rumohr, only Johann Christian Reinhart , whom he had met in Rome, had artistic influence on him. In Rome, Nerly was in charge of the Cervaro celebrations of the Ponte Molle Society until his departure in 1835 . In addition, newly arriving German-speaking artists were welcomed by this society and accepted into the artist community. There were humorous initiation rites.

After a short trip through southern Italy, Nerly settled in Venice as an artist at the end of October 1835. In the lagoon city he found the subjects with which he became widely known; he painted his piazetta by moonlight 36 times. In Venice, Nerly soon became a member of the local art academy . Nerly married a woman from Venetian society. One of the few contacts with his old hometown Erfurt was the painter Eduard Gerhardt , who visited him several times in Venice after 1841; the friends learned and worked together during this time.

In 1852, King Wilhelm I of Württemberg awarded him the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of the Württemberg Crown , with which the personal nobility was associated.

Nerly died in Venice in 1878. The painter Friedrich Paul Nerly (1842-1919) was his son. He died in Lucerne and, at the suggestion of his cousin, the painter Eduard von Hagen , laid the foundation stone for the picture gallery in the Anger Museum in Erfurt, to which he bequeathed his father's entire artistic estate.

In Erfurt the Nerlystraße is named after him, in Hamburg-Hamm the Nerlichsweg.

Works

  • Portrait of the art historian Karl Friedrich von Rumohr (Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie, inv. No. A III 725), around 1823-27, oil on canvas, 31 × 25 cm.
  • Italian Landscape with Shepherds (Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, Inv.No.G 0133), 1831, oil on canvas, 150 × 122 cm.
  • View of Terracina and Monte Circeo (Hamburger Kunsthalle, Inv.No. 2787), 1833, oil on canvas, 99 × 137.5 cm.
  • The Terni Waterfalls (Vienna, Austrian Gallery, Inv. No. 3296), around 1834, oil on canvas.
  • Piazzetta in Venice by moonlight . (Cologne, loan from a private collection to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum ), 1842, oil on canvas.
  • View over the Bacino di San Marco in Venice . (Private property), around 1843/46, oil on canvas
  • Venice, Grand Canal with a view of Santa Maria della Salute . (Bremen, Kunsthalle), around 1845, oil on canvas
  • Venice, Grand Canal with Palazzo Fondaco dei Turchi . (Erfurt, Angermuseum), around 1845, watercolors, brush and pen in brown, heightened white, pencil.
  • Venice by night (Trieste, Museo Morpurgo ), 1850, oil on canvas, 75 × 102 cm.
  • View over the Bacino di San Marco in Venice (Cologne, Van Ham Kunstauktionen , sold April 2007, result: € 550,000), around 1840–45, oil on canvas, 80 × 119 cm.
  • Palazzo Pisani (Van Ham art auctions, sold April 2007, result: € 33,000), around 1840–45, oil on canvas, 74 × 66 cm.
  • The Piazetta in the Moonlight , 1838, (Van Ham Art Auctions, sold April 2007, result: € 210,000), oil on canvas, 81 × 111 cm.
  • Desdemona's house in Venice , 1855, oil on canvas, 110 × 86 cm. Villa Grisebach , Berlin, May 2012.
  • In front of a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice (Van Ham art auctions, sold in May 2011, result: € 2,200), around 1840–45, oil on canvas, 252 × 150 cm.
  • Piazza di San Marco by moonlight (Lempertz, Cologne, June 2016, € 400,000). 1849, oil on canvas, South German collection.

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich von Nerly  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Forerunner of the German Artists' Association from 1845
  2. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1877 , p. 41.
  3. ^ Steffen Raßloff : Eduard von Hagen and the foundation of the Angermuseum . In: Kulturjournal Mittelthüringen, 6/2009. P. 32.
  4. ↑ http://www.erfurt.de/imperia/md/content/veroeffnahmungen/statistik/strassenverzeichnis_erfurt.pdf ( Memento from February 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Horst Beckershaus: The Hamburg street names. Where do they come from and what they mean. Europ. Publishing house 2011, ISBN 3863930096 , p. 256.
  6. ↑ Stadtwerke Osnabrück: November 27, 2010 - March 6, 2011 - Venice images in 19th century German art . In: Stadtwerke Osnabrück .
  7. ↑ Stadtwerke Osnabrück: November 27, 2010 - March 6, 2011 - Venice images in 19th century German art . In: Stadtwerke Osnabrück .
  8. ↑ Stadtwerke Osnabrück: November 27, 2010 - March 6, 2011 - Venice images in 19th century German art . In: Stadtwerke Osnabrück .
  9. ↑ Palazzo Pisani by Friedrich Nerly - artist database - VAN-HAM art auctions . In: van-ham.com . Retrieved April 25, 2015.
  10. ^ The Piazetta in the Moonlight by Friedrich Nerly - artist database - VAN-HAM art auctions . In: van-ham.com . Retrieved April 25, 2015.
  11. ^ In front of a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice by Friedrich Nerly - artist database - VAN-HAM art auctions . In: van-ham.com . Retrieved April 25, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Nerly, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nerly, Friedrich; Nehrlich, Friedrich; Nerlich, Friedrich; Nerly, Frederigo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1878
Place of death Venice