Heinrich Nüttgens

Portrait of pastor Ernst Franz August Munzenberger on an altarpiece in the Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew , Frankfurt

Portrait of the historian Johannes Janssen on an altarpiece in the Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew, Frankfurt

Heinrich Nüttgens (born April 8, 1866 in Aachen , † November 8, 1951 in Angermund ) was a history and church painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Growing up “under the impression of old and new, primarily church art monuments” in Aachen, Nüttgens studied from 1882 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he took lessons from Albert Baur , Heinrich Lauenstein , Hugo Crola , Julius Roeting , Peter Janssen the Elder. Ä. , Adolf Schill and Karl Müller received. Eduard von Gebhardt , who had taught him since 1885, accepted him as a master student in 1890 . The Düsseldorf school left a Nazarene mark on the Catholic Nüttgens . In 1894 he went on a study trip to Italy . With an interruption from 1922 to 1925, when Nüttgens stayed with his sons in the United States and founded a painting school, he lived in Angermund near Düsseldorf - at the latest since 1899 .

Nüttgens was mainly active as a church painter, except in the Düsseldorf area, especially in the Frankfurt am Main , Aachen , Chicago and Ruhr area . He created altar and wall pictures, stations of the cross, ornamentation and glass paintings for around 40 churches in the Rhineland and Westphalia. In Angermund he had been running a studio with students and employees since 1896. Fritz Burmann studied with him from 1910 to 1914 . Nüttgens laid out conservative views of art that rejected contemporary Impressionism and Expressionism in 1918 in the journal for Christian art . From 1893 to 1922 Nüttgens was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten .

Nüttgens is not to be confused with his brother, the Berlin church painter Theodor Nüttgens , also a church painter from the Düsseldorf School.

Works

• In the church , genre painting , between 1885 and 1896
• Madonna , easel painting, 1896, purchased by the National Gallery (Berlin)
• Wife , portrait, oil on canvas, 1897
• Altarpiece for St. Jakob (Aachen) , before 1902
• Wing paintings (donor paintings) of the St. Anna Altar for the Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew , Frankfurt, north transept, 1898; carved tendrils on the upper edge of the picture by Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg
• Entombment , oil on panel, 1899
• Stained glass window of the Church of St. Michael in Mönchengladbach - Holt , 1900 to 1903
• Church painting St. Anna (Ratingen-Lintorf) , 1901, painted over, restored 1979/1980
• Way of the Cross, 14 oil paintings, Maxkirche (Düsseldorf) , 1903
• Way of the Cross, oil paintings, St. Agnes (Angermund) , around 1900, replaced in 1967 by modern bronze pictures of the Way of the Cross, hung there again in 1996
• The church painting of the Liebfrauenkirche in Gelsenkirchen-Neustadt , 1903, painted over, restored in 1983/84
• Church painting in the Church of St. Antonius (Barmen) , 1908/09
• Painting of the Bernardus Church in Frankfurt am Main, around 1911
• Church painting in Groß St. Arnold (Arnoldsweiler) , 1911 to 1922, whitewashed except for a portrait in 1959
• Stained glass window of St. Jakobus Church (Südlohn-Oeding) , 1911
• Church painting for St. Josef (Düsseldorf-Rath) , 1920s, largely destroyed in an air raid in 1944 , a representation of the four archangels in the crossing has been preserved
• St. Agnes Church in Winter , oil on canvas, 1945

See also

• List of Nazarene artists

literature

• Heinrich Nüttgens . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 535 .
• Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century. Published by the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , Verlag August Bagel, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 304 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Nüttgens: Experiences in the field of modern religious painting. In: Journal of Christian Art. Issue 10 (1917), p. 129 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
2. ↑ Heinrich Nüttgens embarked on April 8, 1922 in Bremen with a 16-year-old Theodor Nüttgens and a 12-year-old Heinrich Nüttgens, presumably his sons, to travel to Chicago via New York (cf. website Bremer Passenger Lists of the Bremen State Archives ).
3. ^ Nüttgens, Heinrich . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 7 : Menghin – Pötel . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094026-8 , pp. 517 .
4. ↑ Heinrich Nüttgens: The intellectual work of the painter. In: Journal of Christian Art. Issue 2 (1918), pp. 11-19 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
5. ↑ Personalities website ( Memento of the original dated December 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the portal stadt-angermund.de , accessed on December 21, 2013 
6. ^ Article Nüttgens, Heinrich in the portal stiftung-volmer.de , accessed on December 21, 2013
7. ^ Nüttgens, Theodor , biography in the portal wimbp.gorzow.pl (Polish).
8. ^ Konrad Hartelt: Ferdinand Piontek (1878–1963). Life and work of a Silesian priest. Series of publications on research and sources on the church and cultural history of East Germany. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20143-2 , p. 64.
9. ^ Website of the Angermund in der Kunst series in the portal cfseidler.jalbum.net , accessed on December 22, 2013.
10. ↑ Alexander Schnütgen : Wing painting by Nüttgens with the donor pictures by Janssen and Münzenberger . In: Journal for Christian Art , 1898, issue 10, p. 289 f. ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
11. ^ Website of the Angermund in der Kunst series in the portal cfseidler.jalbum.net , accessed on December 22, 2013.
12. ↑ Website Mönchengladbach-Holt, Catholic Church St. Michael in the portal glasmalerei-ev.de (Foundation Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century eV), accessed on December 22, 2013
13. ↑ Website Find out more about St. Agnes in Angermund in the portal gemeinden.erzbistum-koeln.de , accessed on December 22, 2013.
14. ^ Website Liebfrauenkirche Gelsenkirchen-Neustadt: location and history in the portal liebfrauen-ge.de , accessed on December 22, 2013
15. ↑ Website on the history of the Catholic Church in Barmen ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 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. in the portal antonius-wuppertal.de , accessed on December 22, 2013 
16. ↑ Church tour website in the portal kirche-dueren-nord.de , accessed on December 22, 2013
17. ^ Website Südlohn-Oeding, Catholic Church St. Jakobus in the portal glasmalerei-ev.de (Foundation Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century eV), accessed on December 22, 2013
18. ↑ St. Josef website ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the dem-leben-dienen.de portal , accessed on December 22, 2013 
19. ^ Website of the Angermund in der Kunst series in the portal cfseidler.jalbum.net , accessed on December 22, 2013