Gustav Heidenreich

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The game of the water mermaids and the battle of the giants , Neues Museum Berlin, Vaterländischer Saal
The Norns under the World Ash Yggdrasil , Neues Museum Berlin, Vaterländischer Saal

Gustav Heidenreich (born February 27, 1819 in Berlin ; † November 9, 1855 there ) was a German genre and history painter .

Life

Gustav Heidenreich was born in Berlin on February 27, 1819. He received his training in Breslau from a painter named König and then in Berlin from Wilhelm Wach . After his apprenticeship, he took part in the execution of the frescoes based on the designs by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the vestibule of the Altes Museum in Berlin. Around 1850 he took part in the cycle of the Nordic world of the gods in the Patriotic Hall of Friedrich August Stüler's Neues Museum with three pictures . A breast ailment prompted him to travel to Italy in 1853 . He returned to Berlin in the fall of 1854, where he died on November 9, 1855 at the age of 36.

Works

  • 1842–1848: Participation in the painting of the vestibule of the Altes Museum, Berlin, destroyed
  • around 1850: stereochrome wall paintings in the cycle of the Nordic world of gods in the Vaterländisches Saal (Hall of Nordic Antiquities) of the New Museum in Berlin
    • Hertha and Odin
    • The Norns
    • The game of water mermaids and the battle of the giants

literature

personal data
SURNAME Heidenreich, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1855
Place of death Berlin