Fritz Beinke

Fritz Beinke (born April 23, 1842 in Düsseldorf ; † December 16, 1907 there ) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Beinke attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1859 to 1867 , where he was a student of Andreas and Karl Müller , Karl and Wilhelm Sohn and Eduard Bendemann . He made several study trips to Northern Italy and Germany. In 1871 he won a prize at an exhibition in Cologne, and in 1879 he won first prize at an exhibition in Sydney . Beinke was a member of the artists' association Malkasten .

Works (selection)

The juggler , 1874

The peddler in the village , 1884

Spring day in the country

Beinke was a representative of genre painting at the Düsseldorf School. In his oeuvre, whose later works show the influence of Ludwig Knaus , folk scenes of village life with children and animals playing dominate. Portraits and Rhineland landscapes have also been preserved. Some of his motifs were used as prints. Paintings by him are represented in the collections of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum , Cologne, the Theater Studies Collection University of Cologne and the Landesmuseum Mainz .

• Visit of condolence , 1866
• Children in the swing , 1868
• The Ragman in the Black Forest , portrait of Amandus Hegerle from Reutlingen, 1868
• The hot air balloon , 1870
• The Prayer for Peace , 1871
• Return from the country , 1873
• The juggler , 1874
• Meeting in the Cornfield , 1874
• The toy maker from Nuremberg , 1882
• The Mouse Catcher , 1884
• The peddler in the village , 1884
• The animal lover , 1886
• Family portrait with a dog , 1900
• Boy and girl on the village street , 1903
• Portrait of the swineherd Georg Lempel , 1904
• The truants
• The children's wedding
• Spring day in the country
• The Cologne Hänneschen Theater
• Dominican mass in the Lambertus Church in Düsseldorf

literature

• Hermann Board : Beinke, Fritz . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 210 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Beinke, Fritz . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographisches Künstlerlexikon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 39 ( online in the retrobibliothek.de portal )
• Beinke, Fritz . In: Benezit Dictionary of Artists ( online at oxfordindex.oup.com )

Web links

Commons : Fritz Beinke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Auction results in the portal artnet.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inventory of the artists' association Malkasten