Hermann Julius locks

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Hermann Julius Schlösser (born December 21, 1832 in Elberfeld , † June 21, 1894 in Rome ) was a German history , nudes and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School , who at times also tried his hand at sculpting . Living in Rome since 1862, he is one of the late German Romans .

Life

Schlösser attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1852 to 1856 . There was Karl Ferdinand Sohn his teacher. In Paris , where he went afterwards, he caused a sensation with the "frivolous-romantic" image of a Joan of Arc . At the age of 27 he received the grand prize for history painting from the Berlin Art Academy . In 1862 he moved to Rome for the rest of his life. He earned the reputation of a history painter for Greek mythology and Prussian national romanticism . He became known for the "demonstration of beautiful body shapes" in a "realistic view" of the myth depicted. The picture Venus Anadyomene floating up out of the ocean waves, surrounded by tritons, nereids and cupids , which he had submitted to the Berlin academic art exhibition in 1870, was objected to by the Prussian minister of education Heinrich von Mühler , then bought by a consortium of art lovers and in many Cities issued. He also tried his hand at a sculptor by submitting a draft for a Kaiser Wilhelm monument in his hometown Elberfeld and transferring his painting Thetis von Peleus , for which he had received a small gold medal in Berlin, in wax. In 1896 Schlösser's estate in Munich was sold.

Work (selection)

  • The apotheosis of King Wilhelm I after the Prussian victory over the German Confederation under the leadership of Austria in 1866 , 1869, Von der Heydt-Museum , Wuppertal
  • Venus Anadyomene, floating up out of the ocean waves, surrounded by tritons, nereids and amorines , exhibited in the Berlin Academy exhibition in 1870, bought by a consortium there, acquired by a Viennese banker in 1872, then allegedly damaged and lost, in 1891 at a sales exhibition at the Vienna Künstlerhaus appeared again
  • Thetis, surprised by Peleus , Rome 1872, Berlin Academy Exhibition 1872, Vienna World Exhibition 1873 , since 1874 in the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • Theseus and Ariadne , Berlin Academy Exhibition 1876, exhibition by the Kasseler Kunstverein 1877
  • Pandora before Prometheus and Epimetheus , in the Berlin National Gallery since 1878
  • Charlemagne hands over the imperial sword , Apotheose, to Kaiser Wilhelm , 1896 in a sales exhibition of the estate in Munich
  • The judgment of Paris
  • Roman woman in the bath
  • Diana and her entourage
  • The Sermon on the Mount , sopra porte
  • The dance around the golden calf , sopra porte (counterpart to the Sermon on the Mount )
  • Mars sees the sleeping Rhea
  • Thetis, rising from the sea, soothes the anger of Archilles
  • Hercules frees the bound Hesione , cardboard

literature

Web links

  • Hermann Julius Schlösser , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
  • Pictures by other artists (No. 36–263) . In: Hugo Helbing (Ed.): Hofkunsthandlung Albert Riegner: Estate of the paintings, studies and drawings of the history painter Wilhelm Ritter v., Who died in 1895. Lindenschmit (Professor of the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich), the history painter Hermann Julius Schlösser in Rome, who died in the same year: as well as the rich and valuable collections of oil paintings, drawings and watercolors of the Munich publishing house book dealer FA Ackermann; Public auction: October 14 [1896] and the following days . Munich 1896, p. 23 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Apotheosis of King Wilhelm I , data sheet in the portal akg-images.de , accessed on April 22, 2017
  2. ↑ Prometheus and Epimetheus before Pandora , data sheet in the portal smb-digital.de ( Staatliche Museen zu Berlin ), accessed on April 22, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Locks, Hermann Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history, nude and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1894
Place of death Rome