Hermann Werner

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Hermann Werner (born January 29, 1816 in Samswegen as Friedrich Herrmann Theodor Werner ; † February 5, 1905 in Düsseldorf ) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Werner was the son of the Protestant pastor Wilhelm Alexander Lebrecht Werner (1771–1841) and Charlotte Mohr († after 1857) and had eight siblings.

As a 14-year-old he attended the Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen grammar school in Magdeburg . The upswing in art, combined with the exhibitions, made such an impression on Werner that he decided to later become a painter. After serving as a one-year volunteer in 1837/38, he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1838 to 1840 . Because of the death of his father he left Düsseldorf, attended the Berlin Academy around 1848 and continued his education in Carl Steffeck's studio in Berlin . Several paintings from this period are documented, some of which he showed in the art exhibitions of the Berlin Academy.

From 1859 until his death he was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association "Malkasten" . On a study trip in 1861 he made friends with the Düsseldorf painter Ernst Bosch and from then on lived and worked in his apartment and studio. There he had contacts with the Düsseldorf contemporaries and painters Carl Adloff , August Leu , Carl Hilgers , Johannes Niessen and Christian Eduard Böttcher . Werner exhibited works in the Berlin Art Academy , in Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Vienna and in 1893 at the world exhibition in Chicago .

On the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1896, his life and work were recognized in the local press. The well-wishers included representatives of the "Malkasten", the Düsseldorf Artists Association and the local department of the German Art Cooperative . Werner was neither married nor did he leave children behind. In the name of the family, his nephew Richard Steffens from Braunschweig published an obituary notice on the death of his uncle on February 5, 1905. The painter was buried on February 8, 1905 in a Düsseldorf cemetery.

Works (selection)

The Chicken Chicks , 1883
  • Portrait of a young Roman woman at the well , 1846
  • Children in the Snow , 1847
  • The Broken Jug , 1853
  • Two flower girls in front of the silhouette of Florence , 1859
  • Two girls at the well , 1861
  • Maid peeling peas , 1864
  • The Chicken Chicks , 1883
  • The Isenbeck family farm (in Herringen ), 1884
  • The little schoolmaster , Kunsthalle Kiel

literature

  • Werner, Hermann . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume 2, p. 1005.
  • Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Paris 1976, Volume 10, p. 699.
  • Detlef duration: The (almost) forgotten painter Hermann Werner (1816–1905) . In: Annual journal of the museums of the district of Börde , Volume 58 (25), Haldensleben 2018, pp. 145 ff.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Werner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Samswegen
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1905
Place of death Dusseldorf