Heinrich Ewers (painter)

August Heinrich Ewers , also Heinz Ewers (born November 20, 1817 in Wismar , † March 13, 1885 in Düsseldorf ), was a German painter of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

In 1836 Ewers began to study sculpture at the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin . At the same time he worked as a furniture draftsman, he also designed fabric samples and wallpaper. In Düsseldorf he established himself as a painter. There he had been a member of the Malkasten artists' association since 1861 and was one of the close circle of friends of the history and genre painter Hermann Becker . Around 1864 Ewers met Maria from Weerth . In 1869 they married and moved into the house at Immermannstrasse 22. In 1871 their son Hanns Heinz Ewers was born, later a famous writer of Fantastik , in 1873 the son Ernst Gustav , later Rear Admiral of the Provisional Imperial Navy . Friedrich Franz II. , The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg - Schwerin , appointed Ewers as his court painter .

Work (selection)

Way home from baptism

Ewers painted genre pieces of everyday rural household and family life, interiors , portraits , marine and history paintings .

• Way home from baptism
• In front of the rectory
• Portrait of the son Ernst Gustav , around 1880
• Christian II. Ludwig and Prince Friedrich in the princely picture gallery Schwerin 1730 , 1883

literature

• Ewers, Heinrich . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 3 : Einstein – Görner . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094655-6 , p. 189 ( books.google.de ).
• Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , p. 335.
• Ewers, Heinrich . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 117 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. Verlag des Biographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 164 ( retrobibliothek.de ).

Web links

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

• Literature about Heinrich Ewers (painter) in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Stadtarchiv Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf: bequests / collections: 4-2: Hermann Heinrich Becker ( saga-duesseldorf.de PDF).
2. ↑ Historical places of residence of well-known women from the Düsseldorf cultural scene: Maria Ewers . Website in the portal phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de , accessed on January 3, 2015
3. ↑ Heinrich Ewers (1817–1885), oil painting, portrait of a child, around 1870 ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website in the auctionata.de portal , accessed on January 3, 2015