Friedrich Stummel
Friedrich Franz Maria Stummel (born March 20, 1850 in Münster , † September 16, 1919 in Kevelaer ) was a German sacred artist who was particularly active as a painter of the Nazarene movement within the Düsseldorf school of painting .
In addition to his own church painting , Stummel also created a large number of designs that other artisans from the fields of glass painting , sculpture , gold and iron forging , weaving and embroidery then carried out.
Life, work and awards
Life
Stummel first attended the cathedral school in Münster . After his family moved to Osnabrück , he attended a grammar school there . Due to his great talent for drawing, he already met the admission criteria of the Düsseldorf Art Academy at the age of sixteen (1866) . So he renounced the desired high school diploma and began studying art straight away . This study was very intensive and lasted twelve years. His teachers were Ernst Deger and Eduard von Gebhardt . In 1882 Stummel moved to the pilgrimage town of Kevelaer , where he bought a house in 1884, which he lived in with his parents and his sister Johanna. In 1886 a studio house was built on Gelderner Strasse. In 1890 he married Helene von Winkler (1867–1937). The couple had four children. In 1919, Stummel died after suffering a year of complications from a stroke .
Artistic career
Stummel achieved its first major international success in 1878. His painting Mamas Boudoir was exhibited at the art exhibition in London's Crystal Palace and was awarded the silver medal. In the same year, his fresco portrait by Albrecht Dürer's Hospitality by the Antwerp Artists won the 1521 competition of the Biehl-Kalkhost Foundation for fresco painting advertised by the Düsseldorf Academy.
In 1879, Stummel toured Italy . He worked for Ludwig Seitz on the choir frescoes in the Cathedral of Treviso . The next year he worked with Friedrich Geselschap , whom he had previously met in Rome, on the painting of the armory in Berlin . That year, the two of them also created the design drawings for the mosaics for the facade of the art museum in Berlin.
Stummel painted a large number of churches. The most important of these were the confessional chapel in Kevelaer in 1881 , the Church of St. Pankratius in Anholt in 1885, the Chapel of Grace in Kevelaer from 1888 , and in 1891 the St. Mary's Basilica was painted using the technique of water glass painting . In 1895 he was busy furnishing the St. Apostles in Cologne , the Cathedral of Our Lady in Luxembourg and the Pelplin Cathedral . In 1903 he took over the painting of the Rosary Basilica in Berlin-Steglitz , and in 1906 the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg . Furthermore, Stummel is responsible for the ornamentally painted design of numerous village churches on the Lower Rhine . Many of his works, however, fell victim to the anti-historical tendency of the decades after the Second World War.
In 1899 he was awarded the IVth Class Crown Order and in 1901 the Papal Order of Gregorius . In 1905, Stummel had turned down the professorship offered by the Charlottenburg University for medieval painting .
Written works
- Friedrich Stummel: About monumental painting . In: Trierisches Jahrbuch für Aesthetic Culture 1908 , Trier 1908 pp. 37–50.
exhibition
- 2019: Stummel's heirs , Niederrheinisches Museum Kevelaer
literature
- Stummel, Friedrich . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume 2, Dresden 1898, p. 861.
- Gregor Hövelmann : Friedrich Stummel. A life sketch. In: The church painter Friedrich Stummel (1850-1919) and his studio . Exhibition of the Lower Rhine Museum for Folklore and Cultural History Kevelaer in cooperation with the Rheinisches Museumamt from April 29 to October 28, 1979, ed. vom Kreis Kleve 1979, pp. 15-28.
- Astrit Grittern: The Marienbasilika in Kevelaer . Workbook of the Rhenish Monument Preservation 52, Rheinland-Verlag ISBN 3-7927-1798-0 pp. 35–36.
Web links
- Biographical article by Martin Willing about stubs
- Friedrich Stummel , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Picture window by Stummel (glasmalerei-ev.de)
- Original designs for the windows of the Holy Cross Church at the Pastor Brachthäuser Foundation in Gladbeck Abbey
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heike Waldor-Schäfer: The man who painted the churches , article from May 17, 2019 in the portal waz.de , accessed on May 17, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stummel, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stummel, Friedrich Franz Maria (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sacred artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1919 |
| Place of death | Kevelaer |