Guillaume Wintz

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Frédéric Guillaume Wintz , also Wilhelm Wintz (born October 19, 1824 in Cologne , † February 24, 1899 in Paris ), was a Franco-German landscape and animal painter from the Düsseldorf School and the Barbizon School .

Life

Wintz grew up in Cologne. He and his brother Johann Joseph Wintz (* 1820), a portrait and miniature painter who briefly attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , sent landscapes and portraits to art exhibitions at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in the 1840s . Various architectural drawings that Wilhelm Wintz created in 1844 of buildings in his hometown have survived, such as the Benesishof on Hahnenstrasse , the Cologne court on Trankgasse , the Carmelite monastery on Severinstrasse and the tower of the Klein St. Martin church .

  • Benesishof on Hahnenstrasse , 1844

  • Cologne court on Trankgasse , 1844

  • Carmelite monastery on Severinstrasse , 1844

  • Klein St. Martin , 1844

In 1846, Wintz enrolled at the Düsseldorf Art Academy to study painting . There he was a student in the landscape class of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , who rated his performance as "mediocre". Wintz left the Düsseldorf Academy after the first quarter of the school year 1846. In 1847 his son Charles was born.

Wintz emigrated to France in 1849 , where he traveled a lot and came into contact with the Barbizon School. In Rémilly (Moselle) he became a student of the animal painter Auguste Rolland (1797-1859). There he married Anne Chapelier (* 1826) in 1856. With her he took up residence in Paris and exhibited his pastoral landscapes and animals in the salon . On October 27, 1860, he patented a “système de stéréoscope à sujets animés et à effets dioramiques” in the Secretariat of the Département de la Seine . In 1872 he applied for and got French citizenship. In 1875 his wife Anne died in Neuilly-sur-Seine . On January 20, 1876, he married Marie Pauline Laffrat (* 1842) in Paris, who gave birth to two children (1876, 1881).

Wintz was a member of the Société astronomique de France . He died in 1899 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris . His grandson Raymond Wintz (1884–1956) was a well-known marine painter.

literature

  • Wintz (Guillaume) . In: Pierre Larousse (ed.): Supplément au grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle . Paris 1878, Volume 16, p. 1312 ( Google Books ).
  • Wintz, Guillaume . In: Clara Erskine Clement, Laurence Hutton: Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works. A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches . Trübner, London 1879, Volume 11, p. 357.
  • Le peintre Guillaume Wintz . In: L'Intermediaire Des Chercheurs Et Curieux . Paris 1884, no.155, p. 108.
  • Wintz, Wilhelm . In: Eduard Firmenich Richartz, Hermann Keussen (ed.): Cologne artists in old and new times. Johann Jakob Merlos revised and expanded news of the life and works of Cologne artists . Publication by the Society for Rhenish History, Verlag von L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1895, p. 968 ( digitized version ).
  • Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Gründ, Paris 1999, Volume 14, ISBN 2-7000-3010-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the register books of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , however, it cannot be found; Information based on Johann Jakob Merlo , p. 968.
  2. ↑ Peter Gerlach (Ed.), Christian Frommert (Red.): Kunstvereins-Menue. Numbers, lists and documents on people, exhibitions, artists, annual editions . Institute for Art History at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen 1989, pp. 27, 169 ( PDF )
  3. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 146
  4. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
  5. ↑ Bulletin des lois de l'Empire français . XIe serié, premier semestre de 1862, Imprimerie impériale, Paris 1862, B. no.1027, p. 821, 771 ° ( Google Books )
  6. ↑ Revue spirite. Journal d'études psychologiques . Paris 1899, p. 306
personal data
SURNAME Wintz, Guillaume
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wintz, Frédéric Guillaume (full name); Wintz, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-French landscape painter and animal painter from the Düsseldorf School and the Barbizon School
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1899
Place of death Paris