Georg Osterwald

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Georg Osterwald (born January 26, 1803 in Rinteln , † July 1, 1884 in Cologne ; full name: Georg Rudolf Daniel Osterwald ) was a German teacher , professor , landscape , architecture and portrait painter , technical draftsman , illustrator , etcher and lithographer .

Life

Georg Osterwald was the son of a sexton and teacher who worked in Rinteln. After visiting the Ernestine in his hometown (until 1819), Georg Osterwald was initially a technical draftsman at the Bonn Mining Authority . He studied painting at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität there , later also with Friedrich von Gärtner in Munich . He was also a drawing teacher at the local building trade school .

From 1825 to 1828 he taught drawing at the Fellini Institute in Hofwil near Bern , and from 1830 to 1832 in Paris .

In 1835 and 1836, together with Johann Hermann Detmold, he was the editor of the Hannoversche Kunstblätter which the Kunstverein Hannover published for exhibitions.

In Hanover , Georg Osterwald can be shown to 1843, where he worked as a painter.

Osterwald later resided temporarily in Dresden , then in Cologne , where he was appointed professor by King Wilhelm of Prussia in 1864 .

Work (selection)

The Aegidienkirche in Hanover ; Steel engraving by Johann Poppel (around 1845) after a drawing by Georg Osterwald
  • The market with the beautiful fountain in Nuremberg (painting, 1835)
  • Honor Ms. Musica (1843)
  • The hall in Cologne town hall (1846)
  • Hannoversche Kunstblätter (Hanover, 1835, 1836, edited with JH Detmold)

Some views of Osterwald were published as steel engravings by Gustav Georg Lange in Darmstadt in the book The Kingdom of Hanover and the Duchy of Braunschweig with text by Otto von Heinemann .

The Historical Museum on the Hohen Ufer in Hanover owns a watercolor by Osterwald from 1839 , which shows the Breite Straße and the Aegidienkirche .

In the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne there are several oil paintings and watercolors, including "View of Rome" WRM, Inv. No. 2230, "The Sacrament Chapel in Cologne Cathedral" WRM 3025, "Dietkirchen an der Lahn" WRM 1958/8.

There is a watercolor of the Roman tower in Cologne in the Cologne City Museum .

Illustrations (selection)

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Illustrations from Die Reise nach Braunschweig , 7th edition, 1839

literature

  • Dirk Kocks : Georg Osterwald - A Cologne artist in the age of cathedral completion. In: Die Weltkunst, 5/1981 , page 516f. *
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 7, Munich ..., 1995ff.
  • Hugo Thielen : Osterwald, Georg. 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 , page 490.
  • Bernhard Dörries, Helmut Plath : Old Hanover. The history of a city in contemporary images from 1500–1900. 4th, improved edition, Heinrich Feesche, Hanover 1977, ISBN 3-87223-024-7 , page 140, illustrations on pages 52 and 62.
  • Gitta Ho: Osterwald, Georg (Rudolf Daniel). In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich, France (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793–1843, Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 221–222.
  • Oliver Glißmann: The painter and lithographer Georg Osterwald: a life in the service of Romanticism , dissertation, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, 2015, Cologne; Vienna; Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, [2018], ISBN 978-3-412-50922-4

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The book Alt-Hannover ... (see literature), p. 140 specifies January as the month of birth, the Stadtlexikon Hannover ... (p. 490) indicates February.
  2. ↑ Oliver Glismann: Georg Ostermann's route from Rinteln to Cologne , in: Yearbook of the Cologne historical association eV , Ed .: Kölnischer Historical Society, Volume 75 (2004), pp 57ff .; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ The Rintelner Gymnasium in the mirror of the time 1817–1967 ed. from the Ernestinum high school. Bösendahl, Rinteln 1967, p. 101
  4. ^ Hugo Thielen : Hannoverscher Kunstblätter. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 260
  5. ↑ s. Literature: Old Hanover ...
personal data
SURNAME Osterwald, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osterwald, Georg Rudolf Daniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, painter, lithographer and university lecturer in Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Rinteln
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1884
Place of death Cologne