Henriette Feuerbach

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Henriette Feuerbach after the oil painting painted by Anselm Feuerbach in 1878. National Gallery Berlin.

Henriette Feuerbach (born August 13, 1812 in Ermetzhofen , Middle Franconia as Henriette Lisette Carolina Christiana Heydenreich ; †  August 5, 1892 in Ansbach ) was a German writer , wife of the classical philologist and archaeologist Joseph Anselm Feuerbach and stepmother, agent and patron of the painter Anselm Feuerbach .

Life

Henriette Feuerbach was the third child and only daughter of pastor Johann Alexander Heydenreich (1754–1814) and his wife Friederika Christine geb. Freudel born. With her two brothers Friedrich Wilhelm Heidenreich (1798–1857, general practitioner) and Christian Heydenreich (1800–1865, district judge in Kronach) she grew up in Ansbach and received a classical education in Latin, Greek and music. On April 13, 1834 she married the widower Josef Anselm Feuerbach, who had been married to Amalie Keerl (1805-1830) for the first time. With him and their two children Emilie (1827–1873) and Anselm (1829–1880) from his first marriage, she lived first in Freiburg and later in Heidelberg . She gave piano lessons, led a choir and held house concerts. Many artists gave concerts in her home music salon, including Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms .

“Henriette Feuerbach became known through several writings. As early as 1839 she published - at that time anonymously - her 'Thoughts on the Kindness of Women', a 'small contribution to female characteristics'. With 'Sonntagsmuße' followed in 1846 'A book for women'. In 1853 she and Hermann Hettner published the four-volume edition of the 'Nachlassen Schriften' of her late husband Anselm Feuerbach, the first volume of which she edited. And in 1866 she published portraits of two Franconian poets from the 18th century with 'Uz und Cronegk' . In addition, she has published several smaller articles, mostly reviews, in newspapers and magazines (see E. Schippel: Henriette Feuerbach , Jena 1930, pp. 70–71). "

Based on her letters ( Henriette Feuerbach - Your life in her letters ) and Anselm Feuerbach's letters to his mother , both compiled and published by the art historian Hermann Uhde-Bernays , sustainable documents are available over a period of 50 years that prove the influence Henriette had Feuerbach had on the education and development of the painter Anselm Feuerbach. Henriette Feuerbach, who supported her stepson to the best of her ability throughout his life, published the book "A Legacy" in 1882 in order to promote Feuerbach's reputation posthumously. In the process, however, she heavily edited the text notes that the painter had left behind in manuscript form. The success of the “Biography” was resounding: “ A Legacy - Anselm Feuerbach ” has appeared in ten publishers and in over 50 editions to date. In order to help her stepson's paintings achieve a breakthrough, after his death in 1880 she bought his artistic heritage with most of her fortune and organized larger art exhibitions, including in Berlin.

At the end of 1886 she informed Karl Stauffer that Marie Röhrs Feuerbach's painting Das Gastmahl des Agathon wanted to sell. She acquired this at the international art exhibition in Munich in 1869. Stauffer then wrote to Röhrs on December 2, 1886, informing her that he would like to purchase the painting from her for the art collection of a friend who was not named. The sale did not take place, however, and so Das Gastmahl des Agathon came into the possession of the gallery of the Grand Duke of Baden, whose director at the time was Wilhelm Lübke .

Fonts

  • Thoughts on the kindness of women. Campe Verlag, Nuremberg 1839.
  • Sunday leisure - a book for women. Campe Verlag, Nuremberg 1846.
  • Feuerbach, JA v., Nachged Schriften in 4 volumes, Verlag Vieweg und Sohn, Braunschweig 1853
    • 1st volume: Anselm Feuerbach's life, letters and poems, ed. by Henriette Feuerbach,
    • Volume 2 to 4: History of Greek Sculpture and Treatises of Art History, ed. by Hermann Hettner.
  • Uz and Cronegk. Two Frankish poets from the previous century. , Engelmann Verlag, Leipzig 1866.
  • Henriette Feuerbach (ed.): A legacy from Anselm Feuerbach; Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 1924 (with autobiographical notes by Anselm Feuerbach)

literature

  • Feuerbach, Henriette . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 211 ( digitized version ).
  • Hermann Uhde-Bernays (ed.): Anselm Feuerbach's letters to his mother. 2 vols., Meyer & Jessen, Berlin 1911.
  • Hermann Uhde-Bernays (Ed.): Henriette Feuerbach. Your life in your letters. Meyer & Jessen, Berlin 1912.
  • Felix Braun : Henriette Feuerbach. In: Transfiguration. Selected essays. Verlag des Volksbildungshauses Wiener Urania, Vienna 1917, pp. 87–92 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  • Herbert Eulenberg : Henriette Feuerbach - A wreath on her grave . In: The Feuerbach family in portraits . Stuttgart 1924, p. 143 ff.
  • Association "Feuerbachhaus Speyer" e. V. (Ed.): Thoughts on the kindness of women. Based on the original edition from 1839. Zechnersche Buchdruckerei, Speyer 1974.
  • Daniel Kupper: Anselm Feuerbach's “Legacy”. The original records. German publishing house for art history, Berlin 1992.
  • Werner Schuffenhauer (Ed.): Ludwig Feuerbach. Collected Works , Vol. 21, Correspondence V (1862–1868). Supplements (1828–1861). Akademieverlag, Berlin 2004.
  • Ilona Scheidle: “Plumped into life”. The letter writer Henriette Feuerbach (1812-1892). In: Heidelberg women who made history. Munich 2006, pp. 63-75.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Uhde-Bernays : Anselm Feuerbach - Letters to his mother , p. 457.
  2. ↑ Hermann Uhde-Bernays : Henriette Feuerbach - your life in her letters. , P. 6.
  3. ^ Association "Feuerbachhaus Speyer" e. V. (Hrsg.): Thoughts on the kindness of women - reprint of the original edition with an afterword by Dr. Hans Schimpf , p. 103.
  4. ^ Werner Schuffenhauer: Ludwig Feuerbach: Gesammelte Werke, Volume 21: Briefwechsel V (1862–1868). Supplements (1828–1861) . Akademieverlag, Berlin 2004, p. 513.
  5. ↑ Daniel Kupper: Anselm Feuerbach's "Legacy". The original records. German publishing house for art history, Berlin 1992.
  6. ^ The correspondence between Henriette Feuerbach, Stauffer and Röhrs , 1886
personal data
SURNAME Feuerbach, Henriette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heydenreich, Henriette (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Ermetzhofen , Middle Franconia
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1892
Place of death Ansbach