Heinrich Dähling
Heinrich Anton Dähling (born January 19, 1773 in Hanover , † September 10, 1850 in Potsdam ) was a German miniature , history , genre and landscape painter .
Life
Heinrich Anton Dähling was born on January 19, 1773 in Hanover . From 1793 he studied at the Berlin Art Academy , worked for several years as a drawing teacher and was particularly well received as a miniature painter . He devoted only around 1802, during a stay in Paris and the oil painting . The portrayal of a shipwreck gave him a name on his return to Berlin, so that in 1814 he was appointed professor at the Berlin Art Academy . From 1798 to 1850, Dähling regularly took part in the biennial exhibitions of the Berlin Academy. In 1832 he became a member of the Senate of the Academy. He was also a member of the Urania Masonic Lodge on Immortality .
Dähling works in all painting techniques (especially oil painting, watercolor and gouache ) and was also a sought-after draftsman who worked with engravers and created numerous templates for engraving reproductions. He created a large number of drawings by Berlin actors and role models. His drawings for the work Costumes at the Royal National Theater in Berlin, inspired by August Wilhelm Iffland and published by Ludwig Wilhelm Wittich in Berlin since 1802, deserve special mention . In this 175-sheet work (22 booklets), most of the drawings are by Dähling, a.o. a. the series on Friedrich Schiller's Wilhelm Tell and Zacharias Werner's Martin Luther or The Consecration of Power . His numerous historical drawings were picked up and reproduced by many well-known Berlin artists. Dähling was also highly valued by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel and used by him for numerous building fittings; so z. B. 1820 for the music hall of the Schauspielhaus (together with Wilhelm Hensel , Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow , Christian Friedrich Tieck and Carl Wilhelm Kolbe ) or 1826–1828 for the tea room of the Crown Prince's apartment in the Berlin City Palace.
Heinrich Anton Dähling died in Potsdam on September 10, 1850. His work includes secular and religious histories, portraits, genre scenes, landscapes and miniatures. Of his religious works the following should be mentioned: the Madonna with the child , the taking down from the cross (in the Potsdam garrison church ) and Christ calling to him the weary and burdened .
During his lifetime he was one of the most famous painters and draftsmen of his time. As a border crosser between classicism and romanticism , he consistently worked on a connection between classic and romantic imagery. As a teacher of Carl Blechen and Carl Friedrich Lessing at the Berlin Art Academy, he had a great influence on two of the most important German landscape painters .
Works (selection)
Madonna and Child, 1820, oil on metal, 40.3 × 32 cm, private collection
Entry of a prince into an old city, 1822, oil on canvas, 74 × 101 cm, Berlin National Gallery
Kranzwinderinnen, 1828, oil on canvas, Berlin National Gallery
Without pictures:
- The entry of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on October 27, 1806 , 1806–1807, oil on canvas, 48 × 68 cm
- Queen Luise of Prussia , 1810, miniature on ivory, 9.4 × 7.8 cm, private property (the last portrait painted during the Queen's lifetime)
- Wall medallions Actaeon and Pegasus in the tea room of the Berlin City Palace , 1826-1828 (room designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel )
- Earth life of Adam and Eve, 1830, oil on cardboard, 27 × 30 cm
- Mill in a rock gorge , 1832, oil on canvas, 88 × 109 cm
- Portrait of the painter Anton Graff, 1833, oil on canvas, 41.5 × 35 cm, private collection
literature
- Robert Dohme: Daehling, Heinrich Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 688.
- Friedrich von Boetticher: Dähling, Heinrich Anton. In: Painters Works of the Nineteenth Century. Contribution to art history. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891–1901, here first volume (first half, sheets 1–30), p. 201.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Gerlach: The Berlin theater costume of the Iffland era, Berlin 2009 (see especially the panels in the appendix)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dähling, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dähling, Heinrich Anton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1773 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1850 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |