Friedrich Schwörer

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Friedrich Schwörer , also Fritz Schwörer (born January 9, 1833 in Weil am Rhein , † March 25, 1891 in Munich ) was a German painter and illustrator who was best known for his history paintings.

Life

Schwörer, whose father was an economist , joined the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich at the age of 15 . Here he studied particularly with Philipp von Foltz .

Like Wilhelm Busch , who described him both graphically and lyrically, he belonged to the Jung München association.

His first pictures were in the strictly historical style of his teacher: Simson's Capture , The Singer's Curse . He also painted a number of genre pieces such as Die Jifersucht and Swabian Country People in front of a barber shop .

His more important early works include the frescoes in the Historical Gallery in the Bavarian National Museum : Duke Berthold I's victory over the Hungarians on the Walserhaide on the Traun River in 943 , the death of Count Palatine Arnulf in the defense of Regensburg in 954 and Max Emanuel his after a long separation Family in Lichtenberg am Lech Castle again in 1715 . After being damaged in World War II, the frescoes are now covered by wall paneling.

A longer stay in Paris , where he met Léon Cogniet , brought new accents and more color to his painting style. He created a large cardboard Hall of Fame of German Science 1740–1840 , which was sold as a photograph by Bruckmann's publishing house . Contemporaries judged: “Each one of these hundred figures is not only a sharply individualized personality in the features of the head, in the whole posture and movement, the intellectual penetration and clear understanding of the individual characters is truly admirable; The grouping of these masses also testifies to the finest artistic tact. Everything moves freely and one completely forgets the artist about his work, which one would like to call a Reichstag of German professors. Even the difficulties of the modern costume are happily overcome. The artist's setting is the outside staircase of a university, rising in a semicircle on both sides, it offers five different stages for the groups. For the general arrangement, the painter started from the idea that German science moves in a great double stream in the realm of spirit and nature; he spreads it out to the left and right in front of the viewer and connects it in the middle through Kant and Humboldt, like Raphael in Philosophy, marks the middle through Aristotle and Plato - the realist and the idealist - and in them unites two streams. This is how the most famous representatives of history and philology are grouped, the philosophers, educators, lawyers, naturalists (astronomers, geologists, chemists), healing artists, etc. In the middle of the background, the still inexhaustible fountain of wisdom bubbles up. "

In 1867 he designed another monumental cardboard box for Nebuchadnezzar's entry into the realm of the dead , in which he was received with wild mockery by the previous princes and warriors. Critics perceived an inner kinship with Auguste Delacroix in the composition of the picture .

In addition, he continued to paint genre scenes such as bathing children . An ideal portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven , showing him as a full figure in a coat with a scroll in a stormy landscape, was distributed as a copperplate engraving by Paul Barfuß by Bruckmann Verlag from 1868 onwards. As a splendid sheet for the upcoming Säcularfest of Beethoven's birth celebration , it was widely used.

In 1869 Schwörer provided illustrations for various works by Shakespeare such as Cymbeline , As You Like It and Midsummer Night's Dream , which were published by Brockhaus-Verlag in Leipzig and were also widely distributed through photographs and engravings. His illustrations for a magnificent edition of Friedrich Schiller's Wilhelm Tell were first published by Bruckmann in Munich and then by the art publisher Theodor Stroefer .

Together with Friedrich Pecht , whom he knew from his time at the academy, he was commissioned by the city of Constance to decorate the great hall of the Constance council building . His contribution showed the enfeoffment of the burgrave of Nuremberg with the Mark Brandenburg . For the Luther Church in Konstanz he painted an altarpiece (which is no longer there today).

One of his last works was The Last Hour of the Cimber Battle , which he presented at the international art exhibition in Munich in 1883.

Schwörer, who was blessed with good fortune and was financially independent thanks to extensive property ownership , suddenly died of a stroke in 1891 .

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  1. ^ Entry by Friedrich Schwörer in the matriculation book, accessed on June 4, 2012
  2. ↑ Stations of his life in pictures and occasional poems. In: Rolf Hochhuth (Ed.): Wilhelm Busch, Complete Works and a selection of the sketches and paintings in two volumes. Volume 2 Whatever is popular is also allowed. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1959, pp. 886-1045, here: pp. 905 ff. ( The pub of the Jung-München association. Friends and colleagues, rhymes and images. ) And on “Fritz Schwörer” pp. 906 f. ( The song of fat Fritz ).
  3. ↑ ADB
  4. ↑ There is a small-format oil painting (26.3 × 35 cm) in the Berlin National Gallery , which has long been attributed to Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld , see Michael Teichmann: Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794-1872) and his oil paintings: monograph and catalog raisonné . (European university publications: Art History 387) Frankfurt etc .: P. Lang 2001 ISBN 978-3-631-37800-7 , p. 319
  5. ↑ Baierische Zeitung No. 338 of December 7, 1864, quoted from ADB
  6. ↑ ADB
  7. ↑ Figure ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (unfortunately with watermark) from the collection of the Beethovenhaus Bonn  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / katalog.beethoven-haus-bonn.de
  8. ↑ ADB
personal data
SURNAME Schwörer, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwörer, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Because on the Rhine
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1891
Place of death Munich