Heinrich Schilking
Johann Heinrich Schilking (born November 25, 1815 in Warendorf , † October 2, 1895 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Schilking was born in Warendorf. When he was five years old, the family moved to Oelde , where he did an apprenticeship as a pharmacist. From 1835 to 1841 he trained at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Carl Friedrich Lessing . He attended Schirmer's landscape class from 1836 to 1840. He then used the years 1843/44 to study at the Antwerp Academy . In 1848 he was a founding member of the Malkasten Artists' Association in Düsseldorf. From 1851 to 1869 he lived in Braunschweig and worked as an illustrator for the Illustrirte Zeitung in Leipzig. In 1869 he moved to Oldenburg. There he was the drawing teacher of the Grand Duchess Elisabeth . On March 26, 1870, Peter II , the Grand Duke of Oldenburg , appointed him court painter. Schilking was the chairman of the Oldenburger Kunstverein from 1870 to 1878 . In 1881 he received the medal for services to art from his patron .
Heinrich Schilking died on October 2, 1895 in Düsseldorf.
literature
- Schilking, Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 67 .
- Schilking, Heinrich. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, pp. 556-557 ( archive.org ).
- Altstadtfreunde Warendorf eV, Petra Sondermann, Alfred G. Smieszchala (eds.): “… Traveled after the artist…” Heinrich Schilking. A Westphalian painter of the 19th century. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7319-0311-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145.
- ↑ On the trail of an “expert in his field”. Article from November 6, 2015 in the portal wn.de , accessed on February 2, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schilking, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 2, 1895 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |