Heinrich Heger

Hans von Marées : Portrait of Heinrich Heger (1861)

Heinrich Anton Heger (born September 6, 1832 in Hadersleben , † February 4, 1888 in Munich ) was a German-Danish architectural painter.

Life

Heger, born in Hadersleben near Schleswig, which is currently under Danish administration, studied architectural painting with Heinrich Hansen at the Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen from 1852 to 1856 and specialized in Renaissance interiors. He had his first successes with depictions of the ducal prayer chair in the chapel of Gottorf Castle. A scholarship from the Copenhagen Art Academy enabled him to go on a study trip via Wismar, Lüneburg, Hildesheim, Dresden and Nuremberg to Munich, where from 1858 to 1862 Hermann Dyckan's pupil was at the drawing school for artisans. During this time he created depictions of the Old German House in Hildesheim, the Heilbronn Monastery and the Ulm Minster. 1865 he settled in Kiel and mainly dealt with interior depictions of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. In 1869 the Prussian Ministry of Culture granted him a study trip to the Netherlands and to Belgium, 1871 to Danzig and 1874 to Italy. When he could no longer find a livelihood in Kiel, he moved to Munich in 1875.

He was married to Katharina Sürina (Syrina), geb. Zester (1840-1882). From this marriage came 3 children, Heinrich (* 1867), Rudolf (1868–1948) - he also became a painter - and Anna (* 1876).

His portrait, painted by Hans von Marées in 1861 , is kept in the National Gallery in Berlin.

Works (selection)

• Prayer chair in the Gottorf Palace Chapel, (1857) Kunsthalle zu Kiel
• The old German house on Osterstrasse in Hildesheim, private property
• Part from the choir of Schleswig Cathedral (1865)
• From the Ulm Minster, Museumsberg Flensburg
• The tribute hall in the town hall of Goslar (around 1868), Schleswig-Holstein State Library, Kiel
• The Fredenhagenzimmer in Lübeck (1868), Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
• The war room in Lübeck's town hall (1878), Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig.

literature

• Friedrich von Boetticher (art historian) : painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1891–1898
• Hyacinth Holland :  Heger, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, p. 567 f.
• Lilli Martius : The Schleswig-Holstein painting in the 19th century . K. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1956, p. 332 f. (= Studies on Schleswig-Holstein Art History , Volume 6)
• Wulf Schadendorf: Museum Behnhaus . The house and its rooms. Painting, sculpture, handicrafts (= Lübeck museum catalogs 3). 2nd expanded and changed edition. Museum for Art a. Cultural history d. Hanseatic City, Lübeck 1976, p. 64 " Fredenhagenzimmer (1868)"
• Weilbach's artist lexicon 4th edition
• Jürgen Hacker: Heger (actually Häger), Heinrich Anton in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 12, Neumünster 2006, pp. 180-183
• Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1849 to 1918 . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , p. 241
• Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Kiel artist. Volume 2: Artistic Life in the Imperial Era, 1871–1918. Boyens, Heide 2016, ISBN 978-3-8042-1442-2 , pp. 121-132.

Web links

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

• Heger, Heinrich . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 246. Digitized

Individual evidence

1. ↑ National Gallery Berlin. List of paintings and sculptures of the 19th century, Berlin 1976, p. 243: Hans von Marees (1837–1887): Portrait of Heinrich Heger , 1860 (Inv.No. NG 828); Fig.