Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp
Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp (born September 20, 1794 in Bielefeld , † August 5, 1872 in Bockenheim ) was a German painter and engraver .
Life
Delkeskamp was a son of the bookbinder Friedrich Adolf Delkeskamp and his wife Maria Elisabeth Sauermann . As a teenager he wanted to be a painter, but under the influence of his mother he had to learn the bookbinding trade from his father. After his mother's death in 1812, he took lessons from the Bielefeld painter and drawing teacher Ludwig Wahrens .
In 1813/14 he took part in the campaign against France as a war volunteer . After his release he went to Groß-Breitenbach in Thuringia , where he became a drawing teacher at the local school in 1815 and learned to paint porcelain in the Greiner & Sohn porcelain manufactory in Breitenbach . In 1816 he became a porcelain painter in Hanau and in 1817 at the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin . After his drawings - mostly Berlin motifs - subordinate painters transferred the then popular models onto plates and cups. Delkeskamp was instructed in the craft of copperplate engraving from Johann Baptist Hoessel in Berlin . During this time, he sold a series of Berlin views on his own account.
In 1818 he worked as an illustrator for Count Edward Raczyński at his Rogalin Castle ( Posen Province ). The count had traveled to the Orient together with the Breslau painter Ludwig Fuhrmann ; Delkeskamp transcribed Fuhrmann's paintings that were made during the trip into copper engravings, which were added to the count's monumental travelogue (“Picturesque journey in some provinces of the Ottoman Empire”). After the work was done, Delkeskamp first returned to Berlin in 1819 and traveled through Saxony , Silesia and the Riesengebirge , drawing and painting everywhere and later selling selected works as copperplate engravings.
In 1822, through the mediation of his brother, who had been a businessman in Frankfurt am Main since 1819, he also came to Frankfurt, where he settled for a few years. On February 12, 1823, the Frankfurt city archives kept the “Request from FW Delkeskamp, painter and engraver in the landscape and architecture subject, for permission to give lessons with the addition of a copper engraving of the Römerberg.” His “View of the Römerberg with the Nikolaikirche in Frankfurt a. M. ”was dedicated to“ The High Senate of the Free City of Frankfurt ”, whereupon the senators granted him the requested permission to teach and on December 15, 1823 also sent the artist 20 convention thalers .
Since 1823, following the instructions from Elisabeth von Adlerflycht , the famous Rhine panorama from 1825, published by Friedrich Wilmans , was created, which served the growing need of tourism for orientational illustrations.
Delkeskamp worked in Switzerland from 1825 to 1830 . This is where the picturesque relief of classic Swiss soil was created . In 1830 he returned to Frankfurt, where he stayed until shortly before his death.
On July 25, 1831, at the age of 37, he married the Frankfurt bourgeois daughter Elise Heerdt , sister of the painter Johann Christian Heerdt, in the Katharinenkirche . At the same time he acquired Frankfurt citizenship. He and his wife had eight children, four sons grew up and four other children died early. The family initially lived in Grosse Friedberger Gasse, and later in an almost village-like, one-story house in today's Brönnerstrasse. This was also the seat of his publishing house, which he had founded in order to be able to distribute his works more profitably on his own.
He was usually traveling during the summer months, but spent the winter at home in Frankfurt. For his main work alone, the picturesque relief of the Swiss and neighboring Alps , he made over 800 sketches, often under very dangerous conditions. The work remained unfinished because he could not afford the high costs of printing and the edition could not be sold as expected.
His last major work was the Picturesque Plan of Frankfurt am Main and its immediate surroundings, taken from nature and drawn from a geometric bird's eye view , created between 1859 and 1864. For this steel engraving in the format 159 × 109 cm, for which he used every single building in the city had previously outlined, he received a fee of 10,000 guilders from the Senate of the Free City of Frankfurt . Seven printing blocks and one of them, as well as the preliminary drawings for this plan, were in the possession of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt for a long time and can now be found in the Institute for Urban History of the City of Frankfurt.
In addition to the engravings, he left numerous drawings and watercolors . Delkeskamp's works are characterized by plastic, lifelike and scientifically precise representations.
His Frankfurt Passport from 1862 describes Delkeskamp as brown-haired, with a healthy complexion, and 5 feet 2 inches tall (about 1.65 m). Around 1869 he moved to his sons in Bockenheim, a then still independent community at the gates of Frankfurt am Main, where he died on August 5, 1872. His wife Elise died on September 2, 1881; both were buried next to each other in the old Bockenheim cemetery on Solmsstrasse. The grave sites are not preserved; A memorial plaque on site commemorates Delkeskamp.
Works
- Illustrations for: Edward Raczyński: Dziennik podrozy do Turcyi odbyty w roku MDCCCXIV . Breslau 1821. German: Picturesque journey in some provinces of the Ottoman Empire , Breslau 1825, auth.gr (PDF).
- Panorama of the Rhine and its immediate surroundings from Mainz to Cöln (Frankfurt 1825 ( digitized ); 1828; 1832)
- Panorama of the Main and its immediate surroundings from Frankfurt a. M. to Mainz (1829)
- Relief of the classical soil of Switzerland (1830–1835)
- New panorama of the Rhine and its immediate surroundings from Mainz to Cöln. Drawn again from nature and adorned with the most interesting architectural and historical monuments as marginal images . Frankfurt 1837 ( digitized version )
- Moselle panorama or picturesque relief of the surroundings of the Moselle and its side valleys from Coblenz to Wasserbillig, beyond Trier (1839)
- Panorama of Baden-Baden and its surroundings (1841)
- New panorama d. Rheins u. his immediate surroundings from Speyer to Mainz (1842)
- Picturesque travel atlas of the Rhine from Basel to the sea with supplementary sheet: Theile von Holland u. Belgium a. containing the steamship connections with England (1844)
- Picturesque relief of the Swiss and neighboring Alps (from 1850 - unfinished)
- FW Delkeskamp's little Rhine panorama from Mainz to Cologne . Frankfurt 1853 ( digitized version )
- Panorama of the Ahr Valley from Sinzig (Remagen) to Kreuzberg above Altenahr and its healing springs and baths (1859)
- Picturesque relief of Lake Lucerne (1860)
- Picturesque plan of Frankfurt am Main and its immediate surroundings (1859–1864)
literature
- The master of panoramas . In: The Gazebo . Issue 40, 1872, pp. 668 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
- Fried Lübbecke : The face of the city. Based on Frankfurt plans by Faber , Merian and Delkeskamp, 1552–1864. Published by Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1952.
- Hans Lohne: Frankfurt around 1850. Based on watercolors and descriptions by Carl Theodor Reiffenstein and the painterly plan by Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp . Waldemar Kramer publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1967.
- Ingeborg Preuss: watercolors by Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp. Acquisitions in 1978 for the collections of the Berlin Museum. In: Berlinische Notizen , 1978, 1/2, pp. 22–24.
- Cornelius Steckner: The first panorama of the Rhine. Elisabeth von Adlerflycht (1775–1846) and Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp (1794–1872) . In: Werner Schäfke, Ingrid Bodsch (ed.): The course of the Rhine. The Middle Rhine in illustrated travelogues, albums, panoramas and maps from the 17th to 19th centuries from the holdings of the library and the graphic collection of the Cologne City Museum, the City History Library Bonn and the City Museum Bonn . Cologne / Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-927396-55-9 , pp. 33-39.
- Delkeskamp, Friedrich Wilhelm . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 25, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22765-5 .
- Uwe Schwarz: Delkeskamp's Panorama of the Rhine from Cologne to Mayence, engraved by John Clark. [Text in German]. Germany in historical maps. In: Landkarten Edition, LKE 1835 [1829] (01111). Archive publishing house, Braunschweig 2011.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delkeskamp, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bielefeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 5, 1872 |
| Place of death | Bockenheim |