Gustav Wendling

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Gustav Wendling (born June 7, 1862 in Büddenstedt , † October 17, 1932 in Königslutter am Elm ) was a German history , landscape and marine painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Gothmund fishing village , 1884

At the age of 17 years, Wendling wrote at the Dusseldorf Art Academy , where he in the class of Eugen Dücker the landscape painting studied. From 1884 to 1886 he was Dücker's master class student . At the age of 24, Wendling embarked for the United States to join a colony of German painters in Milwaukee who produced panoramas and circular paintings of the American Civil War for the American Panorama Company of the German businessman William Wehner . A photo from 1886 shows him in front of the circular painting The Battle of Chattanooga . In 1887, Wendling ran the New Academy of Fine Arts art school in Detroit together with Paul Wilhelmi and Otto von Ernst . After breaking off a study trip through Norway in 1888, he persuaded Ernst Eitner to come with him to work in Gothmund , where he had painted for the first time in 1884. Since 1889, Wendling - together with Heinrich Hermanns , Olof Jernberg , Helmuth Liesegang , August Deusser , Otto Heichert and Arthur Kampf - was one of the protagonists of the Düsseldorf “St. Lukasclubs ”(also“ Lucasclub ”), whose aim was to revive printmaking . In a competition for the design of the council chamber in Bochum, he won third prize in 1895 for a design he had developed for a monumental mural together with Friedrich Klein-Chevalier . From 1893 to 1895 the painter Max Clarenbach was a pupil of Wendling in Düsseldorf . In later years Wendling lived near Braunschweig .

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Blucher crossing the Rhine near Kaub on January 1, 1814 , black and white illustration on a postcard, 1902

Wendling painted landscapes and navies, interiors and panoramas. In particular, from 1898 to 1902 - together with Hugo Ungewitter and his assistant Clarenbach - for the rotunda of the Düsseldorf industrial and commercial exhibition, he created the 15 × 120 meter Cyclorama Blücher's Rhine crossing near Kaub on January 1, 1814 , not only there, but also in 1913 was celebrated as a sensation in Berlin . At the beginning of the 20th century, Wendling painted the late impressionist portrait of the painter Otto Sohn-Rethel .

literature

Web links

Commons : Gustav Wendling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Wendling (1862–1932) , short biography (including photo from 1886) in the portal artmarines.blogspot.de , accessed on November 25, 2014.
  2. ^ Peter C. Merrill: German-American painters in Wisconsin . German-American Studies, Volume 16, Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 978-3-88099-638-0 , p. 15
  3. ^ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Ernst Eitner - Hamburg painter of light , publisher: Atelier im Bauernhaus, 2011, ISBN 978-3-88132-340-6
  4. ^ Bettina Baumgärtel : Chronicle of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1815–2011. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Volume 1, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , p. 374.
  5. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Verlag des Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 244.
  6. ^ Bettina Baumgärtel: The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international charisma. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Volume 1, 2011, p. 37 f.
  7. ^ Gustav Wendling, Düsseldorfer Malschule, portrait of the painter Otto Sohn-Rethel in the light of a candle, oil on canvas, signed , website in the portal kunsthandel-czambor.de , accessed on November 25, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Wendling, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Büddenstedt
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1932
Place of death Königslutter am Elm