Gustav Adolf Boenisch

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Gustav Adolf Boenisch , also Gustav Adolph Bönisch (born August 22, 1802 in Soppau near Leobschütz , Province of Silesia , † May 24, 1887 in Breslau ), was a German landscape painter , draftsman , architect and landscape architect .

Life

Boenisch, son of the Soppau estate manager Franz Boenisch, was already represented at the Silesian Art Exhibition in Breslau in 1819 with an oil painting showing a view of the Giant Mountains . After his school days in Gleiwitz , he studied at the Royal Building School in Breslau from 1819 to 1823, then at the Berlin Building Academy . In his early days in Breslau he was also a student in the studio of the painter and drawing teacher Joseph Kalter (1780–1834) and took part in Silesian art exhibitions (1820, 1821). In 1825 he met Caspar David Friedrich and Johan Christian Clausen Dahl in Dresden . In 1826 he took part in the Academy Exhibition in Berlin for the first time ; in the group of “dilettantes” he showed a view of the Heidelberg Castle towards the east , copied from drawings by the Berlin academy professor Samuel Rösel . In 1828 he entered the studio of the painter Karl Wilhelm Wach . During this time he worked several times as a copyist , for example he reproduced Schinkel's Gothic Cathedral on the Water . It is possible that before 1829 he also studied at or in the vicinity of the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

In 1829 he made a trip through the Sudetes . Together with Wilhelm Krause , he toured Sweden and Norway in 1831/1832 . A few years later he painted in the Alps . In September 1833 he painted at about the same time as Carl Blechen and his students on the Brocken in the Harz Mountains , which probably indicates that Boenisch could have been a Blechen student at the time. In 1835 he became a full member of the Berlin Academy . He soon withdrew from Berlin and lived at Nischwitz Castle . Around 1850, he redesigned the lower garden of the baroque palace into an English landscape garden as an architect on behalf of the castle owner Amalie Karoline Jakobine Luise von Ritzenberg (* 1809), daughter of the Prussian general Wilhelm von Krauseneck , widow since 1839 . He attached great importance to the preservation of the garden architectural staffage . In addition, he helped her with extensive construction work (since 1848) and with the commissioning of wall paintings to furnish the castle.

Boenisch created finely painted, naturalistic landscapes in the style of the Biedermeier period . His main work, Eiche bei Bleischwitz, not far from Breslau , from 1833 , part of the collection of consul Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wagener donated in 1861 , thus part of the grounds of the Alte Nationalgalerie , temporarily loaned to furnish Adolf Hitler's official apartment , has been in a flak tower in the Berlin zoological garden since it was stored (1941/1943) missing.

In the drawing Berliner Künstler (1857), the Berlin portraitist Franz Krüger captured a portrait of Boenisch, which is now in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett .

literature

  • Hans Vollmer : Boenisch, Gustav Adolf . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 203 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Boenisch, Gustav Adolph . In: Friedrich Müller: The artists of all times and peoples or the lives and works of the most famous builders, sculptors, painters, copper engravers, form cutters, lithographers, etc. from the earliest art epochs to the present day. Verlag von Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1857, Volume 1, p. 160 ( digitized version , Google Books ).
  • Boenisch, Gustav Adolf . In: Conversationslexicon for fine arts . Romberg's Verlag, Leipzig 1844, Volume 2, p. 203 ( Google Books ).
  • Bönisch, Gustav Adolph . In: Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, lithographers, form cutters, draftsmen, medalists, ivory cutters etc. 3rd edition (unchanged reprint of the first edition 1835– 1852), Schwarzenberg & Schumann, Leipzig, Volume 2, p. 30 ( Google Books ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The state and state calendar of the High Teutonic Knight Order . Hofdruckerei Chr. Ernest Griebel, Mergentheim 1801, p. 66 ( Google Books )
  2. ^ Elisabeth Trux: Silesia in the Biedermeier period. Culture and history of Silesia in the first half of the 19th century . Stiftung Kulturwerk Schlesien, Bergstadtverlag Korn, Würzburg 1987, ISBN 978-3-8705-7122-1 , pp. 99, 101 f.
  3. ↑ List of those works of art which are publicly exhibited by the royal academy of the arts in the halls of the academy building on the Neustadt on September 24th and the following days. Berlin 1826, p. 60 ( Google Books )
  4. ^ Atanazy Raczyński : History of modern German art . Berlin 1841, Volume 3, p. 88 ( Google Books )
  5. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF
  6. ↑ Gisold Lammel: Art on the Move. Painting, graphics and sculpture in Goethe's time . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1998, ISBN 978-3-476-01594-5 , p. 405 ( Google Books )
  7. ^ Friederike Sack: Carl Blechens Landscapes - Investigations into the theoretical and technical genesis of works . Dissertation Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich 2007, p. 195 ( PDF )
  8. ^ Max Jordan : Catalog of the Royal National Gallery in Berlin . Mittler, Volume 2, Berlin 1885, p. 24
  9. ↑ Georg Dehio (ed.): Handbook of German Art Monuments . Volume 15: Saxony II: The administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1998, p. 936
  10. ↑ Birgit Schwarz: Geniewahn: Hitler and the art . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78307-7 , p. 335, footnote 393 ( Google Books )
  11. ↑ Oak near Bleischwitz not far from Breslau , data sheet in the portal bildindex.de ( image index of art and architecture )
  12. ^ Berliner Künstler , data sheet in the portal akg-images.de , accessed on December 30, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Boenisch, Gustav Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bönisch, Gustav Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter, draftsman, architect and landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Soppau near Leobschütz , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1887
Place of death Wroclaw