Heinrich Petri (painter)

Heinrich Petri (born February 6, 1834 in Göttingen , † February 15, 1872 in Düsseldorf ) was a German history painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

Life

Petri was the second son of the Göttingen miniature and porcelain painter like photo pioneer Philipp Petri . While his older brother Bernhard (1837-1887) followed his father into the Göttingen porcelain painting business, Heinrich received from 1852 an academic training as a painter at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he studied with Ernst Deger and from him as a religious history painter in the style of the Nazarenes was coined. Petri traveled twice to Rome (first in 1858/1859, then again in 1868) and was friends there with his older painter colleague Friedrich Overbeck . In Düsseldorf he was a member of the Düsseldorf Artists Association .

Works

Many of his works show representations of Mary. He made small pictures of the Madonna as well as monumental altar paintings or wall paintings. Reference is made to his wall paintings in the monastery church of Nonnenwerth and in the church of Welbergen , which he painted between 1861 and 1862 . The Göttingen Municipal Museum owned his watercolor Esther before Ahasver in 1919 . The university's catalog refers to the painting of the Lamentation of Christ in the Municipal Museum. The art collection of the University of Göttingen has owned two of his Madonnas since 2012.

literature

Petri, Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 496-497 .
Anne-Katrin Sors: The provenances of the Göttingen paintings of the 19th century. In: Academic rigor and artistic freedom: the paintings of the 19th century in the art collection of the University of Göttingen: inventory catalog. Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2013, doi: 10.17875 / gup2013-403 , ( univerlag.uni-goettingen.de PDF), p. 38 ff. (P. 47/48 on the history of provenance in the Petri family) and p. 121 ff. (No. 8 and 9 of the catalog).

Web links

Self-portrait: Heinrich Petri (German, 1834–1872) on artnet.

Individual evidence

↑ Petri, Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 496-497 .
^ Verena Suchy: Heinrich Petri, the Düsseldorf Academy and the Göttingen Porcelain Painting. In: uni-goettingen.de. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, March 2, 2014, accessed on January 15, 2020 .
↑ Verena Suchy: "Of great delicacy of colors" - Madonna portraits in the art collection of the University of Göttingen . In: Göttinger Tageblatt . February 26, 2014 ( goettinger-tageblatt.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Petri, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German history painter
DATE OF BIRTH	February 6, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH	February 15, 1872
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Petri, Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 496-497 .

[2] Verena Suchy: Heinrich Petri, the Düsseldorf Academy and the Göttingen Porcelain Painting. In: uni-goettingen.de. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, March 2, 2014, accessed on January 15, 2020 .

[3] Verena Suchy: "Of great delicacy of colors" - Madonna portraits in the art collection of the University of Göttingen . In: Göttinger Tageblatt . February 26, 2014 ( goettinger-tageblatt.de ).