Heinrich Faust (painter)

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Self-portrait (painted between 1860 and 1865)

Heinrich Faust (born October 6, 1843 in Reinsdorf , † January 4, 1891 in Kassel ) was a German painter , lithographer and graphic artist .

Life

In 1853 Faust moved with his family to Kassel and from 1855 did an apprenticeship with the Kassel lithographer Georg Koch before moving to the painting class of Friedrich Wilhelm Müller at the Kassel Art Academy in 1858 . With a scholarship he was able to continue his education in Antwerp with Joseph van Lerius in 1864 and later study Venetian painting in Italy . During his stays in Munich from 1870 onwards , he was influenced by Arnold Böcklin and Hans Makart . He later got to know Makart personally during a visit to Vienna . After several trips to Italy, he settled in Kassel in 1870 as a freelance artist and took part in exhibitions in Berlin , Munich, Hamburg , and especially in Kassel. His later years were marked by lung and nerve problems that prevented him from doing his job.

Artistic work

Faust works mainly as a portrait painter . He attached importance to the painterly values ​​and less to the similarity to reality. He painted numerous history pictures and fairy tale pictures with a poetic-allegorical character and decorative-lush poetic figures, which he often emphasized with a matt gold background. In his paintings, influences from Carl Theodor von Piloty and Victor Müller can be seen . He was strongly influenced by Makart in his portraits, especially in his depictions of women.

His late work was characterized by deserted, autumnal landscapes that hinted at his premonitions of death.

Several of his paintings are exhibited in the Neue Galerie .

Exhibitions

  • 1870: Academy exhibition, Berlin with a portrait of a woman, in front of a matt gold background

Works

  • The flower's vengeance
  • Titania
  • Old German noble lady (English private property)
  • Autumn landscape , Neue Galerie Kassel, Kassel

Honors

Honorary grave of Heinrich Faust (main cemetery Kassel) .jpg

literature

  • Foundation Central Institute and Museum for Sepulchral Culture (Ed .; edited by Joachim Diefenbach and Dagmar Kuhle): City history in life stories. The honor graves of the city of Kassel. Biographies - portraits - graves. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedhof und Denkmal, Kassel 2013, ISBN 9783924447526 , pages 66–67.

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personal data
SURNAME Faust, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Reinsdorf
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1891
Place of death kassel