Heinrich Ehrich

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Johann Georg Heinrich Ehrich (born October 20, 1825 in Hamburg ; † January 3, 1909 in Hamburg ) was a German painter, lithographer and drawing teacher.

Life

At the age of 15 he already held the position of assistant teacher, but due to the poor pay he was unable to afford any seminars necessary for further training. Despite the practical guidance from the headmaster, he was unable to cope with the lessons in front of students, some of whom were older than himself, and from then on worked as an office clerk.

However, the tendency to draw became more and more pronounced and when the drawing teacher Johann Christian Wraske became aware of the young talent after a pencil sketch , he gave him the financial means to attend the local school for budding painters and sculptors by Friedrich Heimerdinger . In 1848 Ehrich went to Düsseldorf with the help of a scholarship and received further training at the local art academy under Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Wilhelm von Schadow until he had to return to his hometown due to the death of his father. There he worked as a genre painter, lithographed at Charles Fuchs' Institute of Lithography and worked as a drawing teacher. He initially gave private lessons and taught in the workers' education association, before he was entrusted with drawing lessons in the newly established elementary class in 1854 by the Society for the Advancement of Arts and Useful Trades (today the Patriotic Society of 1765). This was followed by a call to the Johanneum Realschule , and he also worked as a drawing teacher at the St. Johannis Monastery School, several higher daughter schools and at the Hamburg Trade School (today Hamburg University of Fine Arts). He often gave 50 to 60 hours of lessons a week, which also included courses in animal drawing in the zoo or free drawing in the Hamburg area on Sundays.

In the more than 40 years of his teaching activity, a large number of Hamburgers found their way into art. His students included u. a. Arthur Illies , Christian Wilhelm Allers , Gustav Brandt , Hermann de Boor and the later lithographer Carl Griese .

Works

Winter duck pond , painting by H. Ehrich, 1857
  • Rhenish cuisine from -, 1849 Kunstverein in Hamburg acquired
  • Emigrant family , 1852 - acquired by the Kunstverein in Hamburg
  • Winter duck life by the pond , 1857 - private property
  • View from the bank of the Alster to the Inner Alster with sailing and rowing boats , approx. 1875 - Hamburg State Archives
  • Reminder sheet to Helgoland, sketch. Museum of Hamburg History , Hamburg
  • Portrait of the writer Semmy Steinberg , 1899

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Ehrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg Artist Lexicon . First volume, Pontt & von Döhren, 1854, p. 304. Under the entry Heimerdinger a list of his students. Text archive - Internet Archive
  2. ^ State archive NRW. Directory of students at the Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Academic year 1848 (digitized version)
  3. ↑ Hermann de Boor on deboor.de, there also a picture by H. Ehrich with his pupil, accessed on September 8, 2019.
  4. ↑ Hamburg State Archives, research in scopeArchiv . Artist H. Ehrich: View from the bank of the Alster to the Inner Alster with sailing and rowing boats.
personal data
SURNAME Ehrich, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehrich, Johann Georg Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, lithographer and drawing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1909
Place of death Hamburg