Henry Ludwig Geertz
Heinrich "Henry" Ludwig Geertz (born July 19, 1872 in Düsseldorf ; † after 1930) was a German genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Geertz grew up as the son of the genre and portrait painter Julius Geertz in Düsseldorf. From 1888 to 1894 he studied painting under Heinrich Lauenstein , Hugo Crola , Peter Janssen the Elder , Eduard von Gebhardt , Julius Roeting and Adolf Schill at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1895 to 1900 he lived in London . Then he moved to Frankfurt am Main , later to Hamburg , where he belonged to the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .
Geertz created genre pictures, later he mainly turned to portrait painting. In Hamburg he received commissions for individual and group portraits, for example for portraits of the supervisory boards and directors of the Hamburg America Line and the board of trustees of the Hamburg Scientific Foundation for the Hamburg Colonial Institute .
literature
- Geertz, Henry L. In: Ernst Rump : Lexicon of the visual artists of Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area , Otto Bröcker & Co., Hamburg 1912, p. 43 ( digitized ).
- Geertz, Henry Ludwig . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 330 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Geertz, Henry Ludwig . In: Günter Meißner (Hrsg.): General artist lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . Volume 50: Gaspare - Geesink . KG Saur, Munich and Leipzig 2006, p. 552.
- Maike Bruhns : Geertz, Henry Ludwig . In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary. Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 142.
Web links
- Henry Ludwig Geertz , biographical entry in the portal kunst-und-kultur.de
- Henry Ludwig Geertz , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF ; 2.5 MB)
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geertz, Henry Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Geertz, Heinrich Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genre painter and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1930 |