Guido Philipp Schmitt
Guido Philipp Schmitt (born February 23, 1834 in Heidelberg ; † August 8, 1922 in Miltenberg ) was a famous German painter. He comes from the Heidelberg painter dynasty Schmitt, which produced four important painters.
Life
Guido Philipp Schmitt was born in 1834 as the first son of the painter Georg Philipp Schmitt and his wife Eva Katharina, b. Kaysser, a baker's daughter, was born. After receiving instruction from his father, at the age of 14 he began to portray his family in various activities: the concentrated and busy mother, the youngest brother sleeping on a plump pillow, the sisters knitting, reading, dreaming, in blue, green or purple clothes similar to mother's. In 1852 Guido Schmitt finally painted an oil painting of his mother.
These pictures do not show the famous female figures of Romanticism, but Heidelberg girls and women - Katharina, Elise, Josephine, Amalie - who are shown in their “grace as the crown of female beauty”. It is the women to be honored who “plait and weave heavenly roses into earthly life”, they are “daughters with shameful customs, loyal daughters of pious nature”. The young painter, the “chaste housewife, the mother of the children” (Friedrich Schiller) shows this “loving diligence”.
The father Georg Philipp Schmitt taught his two sons (nothing can be learned about the daughters, except that they remained single) and promoted their artistic skills. He portrayed Guido in 1848, painting, the drawing portfolio on his knees, with a glass of water and a brush, as a young, budding artist who has exactly the same colors on his palette that he used to paint his mother that same year: blue, black, yellow, red . Guido imitated, tried and practiced various techniques. Realistic portraits enabled him to pursue an artistic career in England in 1859, where he quickly rose to become the most sought-after portrait painter of the London aristocracy. He lived and worked there for almost thirty years and did not return to Heidelberg to his parents' house at Klingenteich 6 until 1885. There he painted various pictures, such as B. the "Ruperto Carola", an allegory on the university. In 1920 he became an honorary citizen of Heidelberg.
His painting "Bismarck as the blacksmith of German unity", which has since been lost and appeared in print in countless versions, became very famous. In the house of the Blue Singers , Göttingen , it is executed as a glass picture. In his drawing “Knecht Rupprecht presents children”, in 1907 he added the German imperial couple as “random passers-by” on the right edge of the picture, which also made this picture famous throughout Germany and appearing as a postcard. In 1913 Schmitt portrayed Count Reinhard August zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen as his ancestor, the crusader Emich II of Leiningen. The city of Grünstadt received that painting as a gift. The Emichbrunnen there was designed after him in the same year and is still adorned with a bronze relief with Guido Schmitt's image of a knight.
The painter died at the age of almost ninety in 1922 after a walk in Miltenberg.
Guido Philipp Schmitt's brother Nathanael Schmitt and his uncle Franz Schmitt (father's brother) were also well-known painters. His cousin Carl Leonhard , director of the Heidelberg Portland cement factory , encouraged him and often had pictures painted by him.
Honors
- Guido Philipp Schmitt was made an honorary citizen by the city of Heidelberg . He rests in the Bergfriedhof (Heidelberg) in a grave of honor in Department C.
literature
- Dr. Robert Schmitt: "Simon Joseph Gabriel Schmitt - life story, ancestors and descendants" , published by the author himself, Koblenz, 1966
- Andreas Franzke, Guido F. Honold: "Georg Philipp Schmitt - 1808 to 1873. A Heidelberg painter of the 19th century" , CF Müller Heidelberg 1977, ISBN 3-7880-9578-4
Web links
- Contemporary encyclopedia entry about the painter brothers Guido u. Nathanael Schmitt, from the Biographical Artist Lexicon, Dr. Hermann Müller, Leipzig, 1882
- Website about the father of Guido Philipp Schmitt, with his portrait of the young son
- Website with numerous portraits of Guido Philipp Schmitt
- Literature by and about Guido Philipp Schmitt in the catalog of the German National Library
gallery
Count Reinhard August zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen (1863–1929), portrayed as a crusader, 1913, City Museum Grünstadt
Emichbrunnen Grünstadt, bronze relief after painting by Guido Philipp Schmitt
Bismarck as the smith of German unity. Glass window after Schmitt's painting, in the house of the Blue Singers , Göttingen
“Knecht Rupprecht gives presents to children”, 1907. The German imperial couple as “random passers-by” on the right
Portrait of the painter Adolph von Menzel
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmitt, Guido Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 1922 |
| Place of death | Miltenberg |