Georg Busse (engraver)

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Georg Heinrich Busse, drawn by Franz Ittenbach, Rome 1840

Georg buses (full name Georg Heinrich Busse * 17th July 1810 in Bennemühlen ; † 26. February 1868 in Hannover ) was a German artist , painter , farm - and library - engraver and etcher .

Life

Ruins of San Massimo, the former cathedral of Forcona in the province of L'Aquila , 1839
Garden landscape with children fishing by the stream, 1867

Georg Busse was born in Bennemühlen in 1810 during the so-called " French era " as the son of the local carpenter H. Busse. As Georg Heinrich Busse, he was an orphan at a young age and was then referred by the Bissendorf pastor Meyer to the painter Burchard Giesewell , who taught at the Royal Court School in Hanover and the Neustädter Boys' School in Calenberger Neustadt . From 1829, Busse studied with financial support from the Welfenhaus at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden , where he learned copperplate engraving under Professor Christian Friedrich Stölzel . Four years later, however, in Dresden in 1833 he received a “first certificate of honor” for landscape drawings , and in 1834 a first prize from the Academy for his copperplate engraving.

The Dresden Academy was so committed to the Hanoverian royal family for their students that Busse could travel to Italy with a scholarship in 1835 for study purposes . Georg Busse spent nine years in Italy, where he was influenced in his artistic development, especially in Rome with Joseph Anton Koch . The Ponte Molle Society was associated buses as President of the "Cervaro festivals" of the XXV. and XXVI. Olympiads in Rome captured on a portrait drawing of the Nazarene Franz Ittenbach . In Italy he also met his future wife: Antonie Eckermann from Hamburg .

When Busse returned to Hanover in 1844, he was employed there - with a sinecure of 400 thalers a year - as a "library engraver" in the Royal Library (formerly "Royal Public Library" in the main state archive building ; today mostly Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library ) .

In Hanover, Busse became a member of the Hanover Art Association . Up until now he “only” excelled himself with drawings, copperplate engravings and, for example, in Hanover in 1846 with his eighteen “Picturesque Etchings from Different Regions of Italy”, which are counted among the best works by Buss, he has also created oil paintings since 1849 , which he does almost every year Presented art exhibitions. After his marriage to Antoine Eckermann in 1849, Georg V , at that time still Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Hanover , bought his “ruins of the imperial palaces in Rome” in 1850.

In 1857/58 Busse went on a long journey to Algiers , Malta and again to Italy . After his first wife Antonie died after only a few years of marriage, Busse married Johanne Selle from Gittelde in 1858 , with whom he then had two children.

Honors, museums

Works (selection)

After Busses early works were under the influence of Joseph Anton Koch, his later works became more realistic and detailed , often even almost scientifically exact, but with romantic features. Joseph Heller's handbook for engravers (see literature ) lists a large part of Busses work.

Buses' works can now be found primarily in Hanover in the Lower Saxony State Museum and in Cologne in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum .

See also

literature

  • Karl Ludwig Grotefend:  Busse, Georg Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 650.
  • Andreas Andresen (arrangement): Georg Busse. In the other: The German painter-Radirer (Peintres-Graveurs) of the nineteenth century according to their lives and works , with a detailed biography and a catalog of works, Volume 3, Leipzig: Verlag von Rudolph Weige, 1869, pp. 230-267 ( books .google.de ).
  • Joseph Heller, Andreas Andresen, Joseph Edward Wessely: Georg Busse. In: Handbook for copper engravers or lexicon of engravers, painters, etchers and form cutters of all countries and schools according to their most valued sheets and works. Based on Heller's pract. Handbook for engravers, reworked and doubled by Dr. phil. Andreas Andresen. First volume, TO Weigel, Leipzig 1870, p. 209 f. ( books.google.de ).
  • Busse, Georg. In: Robert Edmund Graves, Sir Walter Armstrong (Eds.): Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. 1886-1889.
  • Friedrich Noack : Busse, Georg Heinrich . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 291 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, shape cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Volume 15, p. 339.
  • Wilhelm Rothert (Ed.): Busse, Gg. In the other: Hannoversche biography. Volume 2: In the old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866. Hanover: Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, 1914, p. 534.
  • Hugo Thielen : Busse, Georg Heinrich. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 82.
  • Hugo Thielen: Busse, Georg Heinrich . In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 102.

Web links

Commons : Georg Heinrich Busse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wilhelm Rothert (Ed.): Busse, Gg. In this Hannoversche biography. Volume 2: In the old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866. Hanover: Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, 1914, p. 534
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Karl Ludwig Grotefend:  Busse, Georg Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 650.
  3. ^ Andreas Andresen (arrangement): Georg Busse. In the other: The German painter and engravers (Peintres-Graveurs) of the nineteenth century after their lives and works. Volume 3, published by Rudolph Weige, Leipzig 1869, pp. 230-267 ( books.google.de ).
  4. ↑ Bernhard Dörries, Helmut Plath : Alt-Hannover 1500–1900 ... pp. 54 f., 92 f., 120, 137 f., Especially p. 141.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Hugo Thielen: Busse, Georg Heinrich. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. P. 82.
  6. ^ Hugo Thielen: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 227.
  7. ↑ Richard-Brandt-Heimatmuseum on hannover.de
  8. ↑ Joseph Heller, Andreas Andresen, Joseph Edward Wessely: Handbook for copper engravers… p. 209 f.
  9. ^ Hugo Thielen: Busse, Georg Heinrich. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 102.
  10. ↑ The picture chronicle of the Saxon Art Association. P. 158.
  11. ^ Franz Rudolf Zankl : Caroline Herschel…. In ders. (Ed.): Hannover Archive . Volume 5, sheet p61
personal data
SURNAME Busse, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Busse, Georg Heinrich; Busse, GH
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court and library engraver, painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Bennemühlen
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1868
Place of death Hanover