Heinrich Reinhold (painter)

Gustav Heinrich Naecke : Heinrich Reinhold (1788–1825)

Ravine at Sorrento

Hamburger Kunsthalle : A tree in the Campagna , 1822

Johann Heinrich Carl Reinhold (born July 18, 1788 in Gera , † January 15, 1825 in Rome ) was a German painter and engraver.

Life

As the son of the portrait and genre painter Johann Friedrich Leberecht Reinhold, Heinrich Reinhold was a younger half-brother of the landscape painter Friedrich Philipp Reinhold (1779–1840). He first studied in Dresden at the art academy . In 1806 he went to his brother in Vienna , where he attended the art academy . After being noticed by Dominique-Vivant Denon , the general director of the museums in Paris, Reinhold went to Paris on his advice in 1809 . He stayed there for five years, working on a work on Napoleon's campaigns and working as a copper engraver for Dominique-Vivant Denon. He returned to Vienna in 1814 and devoted himself intensively to landscape painting. He frequented Friedrich von Olivier and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld , where he also met Joseph Anton Koch . Together with his brother Friedrich Philipp and his befriended painters Ernst Welker , Johann Adam Klein and Johann Christoph Erhard , he went on study trips to the Schneeberg region, the Salzkammergut and the Berchtesgadener Land. Reinhold drew inspiration from these hikes for his painting in the years that followed; the intensive studies of nature served him as a template for many of his paintings. Reinhold went to Italy in 1819 with the painter Johann Christoph Erhard . He lived and worked in Rome for five years and traveled to various regions of Italy in the company of many artist friends. He always recorded his impressions in landscape studies. Most of his drawings and oil studies during this creative period were created in Olevano and the surrounding area, where he spent the summer months in the company of other German painters such as Carl Wilhelm Götzloff or Ludwig Richter . After staying in Naples , he wandered through Sicily in the company of Prince Ferdinand von Lobkowitz . Back in Rome, he tried to dissuade his friend Erhard from committing suicide, which not only failed, but also gave him a fatal illness himself, so that he only died at the age of 36. His grave in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome was designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen .

Works (selection)

In addition to his graphic work, Heinrich Reinhold was primarily a landscape painter. Known in Vienna for the ideas of Romanticism , he was one of the circle of German painters in Rome who were primarily influenced by Joseph Anton Koch .

• The Watzmann from the Wimbachtal (Vienna, Austrian Gallery), 1818, oil on panel
• Coast near Pozzuoli (Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, Inv.No.G 0601), after 1819, oil on canvas, 43 × 59.5 cm
• Landscape at Olevano , pencil on tracing paper, 31.6 × 41.3 cm
• Olevano's view of the Campagna (Munich, Neue Pinakothek), 1822, oil on paper, 12.6 × 21.6 cm
• Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery in Sorrento (Munich, Neue Pinakothek, inv.no.WAF 819), around 1823/24, oil on canvas, 41.7 × 54.8 cm
• Landscape near Berchtesgaden, on the way to Königssee , (I. Tremmel Collection), pencil on wove paper, 29.5 × 42.4 cm

Particular importance is attached to his oil studies, which stimulated the German-Roman circle of artists and found well-known buyers who recognized the importance of Reinhold's landscape work early on. These included, for example, the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel , who purchased twelve oil sketches and four pencil drawings from Reinhold, and the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen , who commissioned three paintings from him.

estate

The largest museum inventory of Reinhold's painterly works is located in the Hamburger Kunsthalle with 12 oil studies and paintings , and many drawings are also kept in the Kupferstichkabinett. In 2010 the Klassik Stiftung Weimar was able to acquire a large part of the estate, which in addition to early works includes oil paintings and drawings made in Italy.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Reinhold, Heinrich . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 25th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1873, pp. 220–222 ( digitized version ).
• Franz Vallentin:  Reinhold, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 286 f.
• Hans Reinhold: Reinhold, Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 131-133 .
• Frauke Josenhans: Reinhold, Heinrich. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 239–241.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Reinhold  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• heinrich-reinhold.info private website for a catalog raisonné project (accessed: June 16, 2016)
• An extraordinary landscape painter report on the exhibition Heinrich Reinhold. On the trail of the landscape in the Hamburger Kunsthalle . Published in the title culture magazine on December 15, 2018.