Heinrich Trenk

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Heinrich Trenk , also Henri or Henric Trenk (* 1818 in Zug , Canton Zug , Switzerland ; † July 5, 1892 in Bucharest , Kingdom of Romania ), was a Swiss-Romanian landscape , vedute , genre , portrait and animal painter as well Illustrator and caricaturist from the Düsseldorf School . He was also a photographer .

Life

View with the parish church of Sibiu
View of the Stavropoleos Monastery in Bucharest

Trenk, son of a German family in Zug, studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy before 1845 . Around 1846 he traveled to Sibiu in Transylvania , then part of the Kingdom of Hungary in the Austrian Empire . In 1851 he moved to Bucharest, capital of the Principality of Wallachia , and stayed there when the country became part of the Principality of Romania in 1861 and later part of the Kingdom of Romania. In his later life he became a Romanian citizen.

In addition to portraits, Trenk painted romantic landscapes, cityscapes, historical buildings and genre scenes in Romania. He sent some pictures to exhibitions in France. He also drew caricatures . For a while he taught as a drawing teacher at the Bucharest grammar school. The later painter Ion Andreescu was one of his students . He also worked on the invention of non-glossy paints. The Romanian writer Alexandru Odobescu (1834–1895) hired him as an illustrator for a magazine that was published by the Romanian Monument Commission. This magazine reported on monuments, historical places and folklore in Romania. Together with Odobescu, Trenk carried out the drawing and inventorying of Romanian cultural assets. 105 of his paintings and drawings form the basis of the Gallery of Ancient Romanian Art in the Bucharest Art Museum . Prints of 13 documentary photographs that Trenk made of the Pietroasa treasure in 1869 are in the holdings of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest .

literature

  • Trenk, Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 376 .
  • George Oprescu: Grafica românească în secolul al XIX-lea. Volume 1, Fundația Regală pentru Literatură și Artă, Bucharest 1942
  • Vasile Drăguţ, Vasile Florea, Dan Grigorescu, Marin Mihalache: Pictura românească în imagini. Editura Meridiane, Bucharest 1970, p. 138 f.
  • Marica Grigorescu: Henri Trenk şi arta restituirii tezaurelor. 100 de ani de la moartea artistului (1818-1892). Muzeyl Naţional de Artǎ, Bucharest 1992.

Web links

Commons : Henric Trenk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 441
  2. ↑ For example, he caricatured the doctor Carol Davila in the journal Nichipercea (No. 38 of October 8, 1860). - Cf. Richard Constantinescu: Medicii din vârful creionului . Article from February 27, 2015 in the viata-medicala.ro portal , accessed on November 19, 2016
  3. ↑ Carl von Lützow (ed.): Journal for visual arts. Verlag EA Seemann, Leipzig 1869, Volume 4, p. 120 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ Markus Fischer: The Gallery of Ancient Romanian Art in the Bucharest Art Museum. Exhibition on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the collection , article from March 6, 2016 in the adz.ro portal ( Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Romania ), accessed on November 19, 2016
  5. ^ Júlia Papp: John Brampton Philpot's photographs of fictile ivory in the Hungarian National Museum. In commemoration of the bicentenary of Ferenc Pulszky's birth . Article from June 25, 2014 in the portal riha-journal.org (Journal of the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art), accessed on November 19, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Trenk, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trenk, Henri; Trenk, Henric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Romanian landscape, genre and portrait painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Zug , Canton of Zug , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1892
Place of death Bucharest , Kingdom of Romania