Hermann Wilhelm Soltau

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Portrait of Hermann Wilhelm Soltau by Günther Gensler , study for the group portrait from 1840, created in the period from 1838 to 1840, Museum for Hamburg History
The members of the Hamburger Künstlerverein , with Hermann Wilhelm Soltau, by Günther Gensler, 1840, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Portrait (posthumous) Carsten Wilhelm Soltau (in the main church St. Michaelis ), 1838, Hamburger Kunsthalle
The Carthusian Monk , 1839
A little distraction , before 1840
Coastal landscape , before 1841, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Hamburg thanksgiving plaque (exterior view) for help after the Hamburg fire to Nicholas I , 1843, Hermitage , Saint Petersburg
Proximity of the Beloved , illustration for the poem of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , 1845
One of the twelve sheets from the Lindley album from 1852 (reprint from 1900). Sheet with depicted water tower Hamburg-Rothenburgsort
Medal on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the foundation festival of the Hamburger Künstlerverein 1857, obverse
Medal on the occasion of the 25th anniversary celebration of the Hamburg Artists' Association in 1857, reverse
"Hermann Wilhelm Soltau", collective grave painter , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Hermann Wilhelm Soltau (born July 9, 1812 in Hamburg ; † May 14, 1861 ibid) was a German painter , illustrator and graphic artist from the Hamburg School .

Life

Hermann Wilhelm Soltau was born in Hamburg as the son of the businessman Carsten Wilhelm Soltau and his wife Johanna Henriette Catharina, née Sprockhoff . Dietrich Wilhelm Soltau was his father's half-brother.

Hermann Wilhelm Soltau received his first artistic training from Gerdt Hardorff in Hamburg. In 1831 he studied in Rome . On November 6, 1832, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where he studied from then on and devoted himself to genre painting. During his time in Munich, he went on study trips to Tyrol , Lombardy and Venice . In 1838 he returned to Hamburg from Munich. There he was Günther Gensler's model for his group portrait The Members of the Hamburg Artists' Association , of which he had been a member since 1837. On January 8, 1838, he also joined the Kunstverein in Hamburg . In 1840 Soltau traveled to Paris via Antwerp . In Paris he lived in 1841 at Quai Saint-Michel 13 in the Quartier de la Sorbonne in the 5th arrondissement . As in Munich, he also took part in exhibitions in Paris. In 1844 he was awarded a gold medal in the Salon de Paris .

1848, in the troubled year of the February Revolution in France, the March revolution in Germany and the March revolution in Denmark, he returned to the north and joined the volunteer corps under the Bavarian Major Ludwig von der Tann , which consists of volunteers from Hamburg, Kiel and Magdeburg passed and fought against Denmark in the Schleswig-Holstein uprising . The Freikorps also included the painters Emil Bauch and Julius Bakof (1819–1857), who, like Soltau, belonged to the Hamburg Artists 'Association , as well as the architect and later chairman of the Kiel Artists' Association, Gustav Ludolf Martens (1818–1882) and the Magdeburg painter and lithographer Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Theodor Albert (* 1822). Since the Freikorps were a thorn in the side of the Prussian officers of the regular Schleswig-Holstein Army , they were disbanded in July. In Wandsbek wood Ludwig gave von der Tann his men a farewell party in which the standard of the volunteer corps at the Hamburg artist association was passed. Gustav Ludolf Martens then published the diary of a volunteer in the von der Tann'schen Corps , published in Hamburg , for which Soltau designed a title page. It is a frame grotesque in which three armed volunteers are depicted on the right and left, below on the left a shield with the double-headed imperial eagle of the German Confederation , on the right a shield of the later province of Schleswig-Holstein , which was also used by the Schleswig-Holstein Army , above a view of Altenhof and below a representation of the battle in the village of Hoptrup in the municipality of Hoptrup Sogn . The draft, a pen drawing, came to the Kiel Kunsthalle in 1891, and an etching based on the draft , also dated 1848, is in the collection of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg .

In 1849 Soltau stayed in Lüneburg for a while to study art treasures there. From 1853 to 1857 he had his studio at Gröningerstraße 31 (today Willy-Brandt-Straße ) in the Hamburg-Altstadt district . In 1857 he moved to horse market 21 (today Gerhart-Hauptmann-Platz ) and in 1858 to Holländischer Brook 22 on the Hamburg island of Wandrahm , where he worked and lived until his death. In 1959 he stayed in Kiel for a long time and on May 28th took part in a festival organized by the Kiel Artists 'Association in honor of Albrecht Dürer , to which the Hamburg Artists' Association was invited and whose invitation he designed. On September 18, the Hamburg Artists' Association returned to Kiel to celebrate the 28th Foundation Day of the Hamburg Artists' Association together with the Kiel Artists' Association . At the ceremony, Soltau presented the Kiel Artists 'Association with an address of thanks he had made with pen and watercolors on behalf of the Hamburg Artists' Association , which is now in the collection of the Schleswig-Holstein State Library in Kiel. For the Kiel Schiller Festival on November 9, 1859, he designed color sketches for Friedrich Schiller's dramas for the Setting of Living Pictures . On Christmas Eve 1859, a lithographic memorial sheet from Soltau was published, which showed in the middle the Schiller statue made of plaster , which Engelbert Peiffer created for the Kiel Schiller Festival and which stood on a pedestal in the old market during the festival .

After a long period of suffering, Hermann Wilhelm Soltau died of a heart attack in his apartment on May 14, 1861 on the night of May 15. A few days later he was buried with great sympathy from his friends and colleagues. The banner of the Hamburg Artists' Association , for which he created the design in 1852 , accompanied the funeral procession. Two artists came from Kiel who brought a wreath to the funeral on behalf of the Kiel Artists' Association .

At the Ohlsdorf cemetery in the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery , near the main entrance to the cemetery, the collective grave of painter commemorates Hermann Wilhelm Soltau, among others.

Soltau is with works in the collections of the Hamburger Kunsthalle , the Association for Hamburg History , the Altona Museum , the Museum of Art and Crafts Hamburg, the Kunsthalle Kiel , the Schleswig-Holstein State Library in Kiel, the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, the Berlin State museums , the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, of the Rhode Iceland School of design Museum in Providence, the new York Public Library and the National Library of France represented . In addition to his oil paintings, he created an abundance of ornamental occasional leaves, illustrations, marginal drawings, miniatures and designs for works of art as well as for craft items. He was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association and an honorary member of the Altertumsverein zu Lüneburg . In addition to Günther Gensler, he was also portrayed in oil by Hermann Steinfurth and drawn by Joseph Puschkin . In 1843 a portrait showing Soltau was published as a lithograph by C. Schulz in Paris.

  • Hermann Wilhelm Soltau, lithograph by C. Schulz, Paris, 1843

  • Hermann Wilhelm Soltau, print after a drawing by Joseph Puschkin

  • Hermann Wilhelm Soltau, oil painting by Hermann Steinfurth (black and white illustration), Hamburger Kunsthalle

  • Excerpt from The Members of the Hamburg Artists' Association

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1835: Exhibition at the Munich Art Association - oil painting Capuchin giving a girl a present
  • 1837: Exhibition at the Kunstverein Munich - oil painting Four monks with a lot of books
  • 1837: Exhibition in Hamburg - oil painting A Franciscan monk teaches three novices (also a Franciscan monastery )
  • 1838: Fourth exhibition of the Hamburger Künstlerverein - interior of the Palazzo Castei in Venice
  • 1838: Exhibition in Halle , Hallescher Kunstverein - oil painting raft trip on the Isar (near Munich)
  • 1839: Exhibition in the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg - oil painting raft trip on the Isar (near Munich)
  • 1841: Exhibition in the Musée Royal ( Louvre ) - oil painting raft trip on the Isar (near Munich)
  • 1844: Salon de Paris

Posthumously

Works (selection)

Dimensions: width × height

  • 183 ?: Country people decorating the graves of their relatives on All Souls Day
  • 183 ?: Farmer Hofer receives the final sacraments
  • 1832: Painter smoking at the easel , oil on canvas, 25 × 26.3 cm - Kunsthalle Kiel (The pictured painter represents Georg Heinrich Crola . In the Nationalgalerie Berlin there is a second painting with the same motifs and almost the same size, the 1832 was painted by Wilhelm Bendz .)
  • 1833: Young Zillertal woman , looking to the left , pencil on paper 16 × 20.5 cm
  • 1833: Cloister in Berchtesgaden , pencil on paper, 19.5 × 23 cm
  • 1834: Portrait of Veitel Ausserladscheider zum Kreiterer , pencil on paper, 20.3 × 24 cm
  • 1835: or before Capuchin, giving a girl , oil painting - exhibited in 1835 at the Kunstverein Munich , bought by the latter and raffled on February 16, 1836
  • 1835: African woman and gondolier , pencil on paper, 21 × 12.5 cm
  • Approx. 1835: Head of a Black Woman , drawing, graphite on vellum paper - Rhode Island School of Design Museum , Providence
  • After 1835: Portrait ( posthumously ) Carsten Wilhelm Soltau (in an armchair with a pipe), oil painting - exhibited in Hamburg in 1913
  • 1837 or before: A Franciscan monk teaches three novices (also a Franciscan monastery ), oil paintings - exhibited in Hamburg in 1837
  • 1837 or before: Four monks with a lot of books , oil paintings - exhibited in 1837 at the Kunstverein Munich
  • 1837: Raft trip on the Isar (near Munich) , oil on canvas, 143 × 118 cm - exhibited in Halle in 1838 and in Paris in 1841 - Neue Pinakothek
  • 1838 or before: Interior of the Palazzo Castei in Venice - exhibited in Hamburg in 1838
  • 1838: Portrait (posthumously) Carsten Wilhelm Soltau (in the main church St. Michaelis ), oil painting - Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 1839: The Carthusian monk , oil on canvas, 36 × 43 cm
  • 1839: Portrait of a Biedermeier hern , miniature , height 9 cm
  • Before 1840: A Little Distraction , oil on canvas, 181 × 136 cm
  • Before 1841: Coastal landscape , oil on canvas, 44 × 33, oil on paper (attached to wood) - Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 1843: Draft for the Hamburg thank you plaque for help after the Hamburg fire to Friedrich August II of Saxony
  • 1843: Draft for the Hamburg thank you plaque for help after the Hamburg fire to the King of Denmark Christian VIII.
  • 1843: Draft for the Hamburg thank you plaque for help after the fire in Hamburg to Tsar of Russia Nicholas I - Hermitage , Saint Petersburg
  • 1843: Draft for the Hamburg thank you plaque for help after the Hamburg fire to the King of France Louis-Philippe I.
  • 1843: 61 copies of miniatures , portraits of Bavarian and non-Bavarian princes from the royal library in Paris for King Ludwig I of Bavaria , beginning with Norix and ending with Duke Siegmund
  • 1843: Drawings (with AS) in the album de M me Viardot-Garcia (digitized version)
  • 1844: Drawings for a prayer book based on old miniatures with the support of Archbishop Denis Auguste Affre for Adélaïde d'Orléans
  • 1845: Proximity of the Beloved , illustration for the poem of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , watercolors on paper, 46.7 × 64 cm
  • 1847: Variations on German poems , etchings and explanations of three poems, The Sexes by Friedrich Schiller , the cradle and grave of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the tear of Sutor
  • 1847: Carved Gothic altar with scenes from the life of Christ , watercolors on paper, 24.1 × 29.8 cm
  • 1848: The battle at Hoptrup , etching - Museum for Art and Industry Hamburg
  • 1848 to 1851: Drawings and copies of miniatures for the volumes of Le moyen âge et la renaissance (digital copies )
  • 1849: Design for a lidded goblet and two spoons, pencil and gouache on paper, 24.5 × 32.5 cm
  • 1850: Utensils , gouache on paper, 21 × 29.2 cm
  • 1851: Design for a silver cup for the Hamburger Künstlerverein , which was never realized - Kunsthalle Kiel
  • 1852: Drawings in the Lindley album (on the marriage of William Lindley and Jeanne Julie Heerlein). In 1900 10 of the 12 plates were reprinted.
  • 1852: Portrait of Heinrich Christian Meyer (after a daguerreotype )
  • 1852: Draft for the banner that women from Hamburg sewed and embroidered and presented in gratitude to the Hamburg Artists' Association in 1852
  • 1857: Design for a desk top made in silver by Q. von Holten von Brahmfeld & Gutruf
  • 1857: Draft medal on the occasion of the 25th anniversary foundation celebration of the Hamburg Artist Association on September 19, 1857. It was founded by Heinrich Lorenz engraved and hung on Lukas Cup . It was also pressed in bronze and tin in certain editions by Heinrich Lorenz, presumably in the Royal Mint of Altona , of which he was the director at the time.
  • 1859: ABC for art and trade, designed by H. Soltau (26 sheets)
  • 1859: Draft for invitation cards for the Kiel Artists 'Association for a festival in Kiel with the Hamburg Artists' Association in honor of Albrecht Dürer , ink on brown paper, heightened with white, 10.5 × 14.3 cm - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett
  • 1859: Address of thanks from the artists 'association in Hamburg to the artists' association in Kiel , watercolor and pen drawing - Schleswig-Holstein State Library , Kiel
  • 1859: Drawings of the cardboard boxes to decorate the auditorium of the old building of the Meldorfer School of Academics with old coats of arms of the Dithmarsch church games as motifs - the building is now part of the Dithmarsch State Museum
  • 1860: Commemorative sheet of a precious, splendid Bible that the conventual women of Itzehoe Monastery gave to the Prioress von Ahlefeld for her 50th anniversary in office
  • 1860: Design of a commemorative cup in the form of a drinking horn , which was made in boxwood , ivory , horn and silver by Heinrich Friedrich Christoph Rampendahl , with the dedication “Dem Herr WA v. Rumohr Drält to December 13, 1860 ”(Wulf August von Rumohr) - The design is in the collection of the Museum of Art and Industry Hamburg
  • 18 ??: Study of the figure of a saint under a Gothic arch , oil paints and pencil on cardboard, 21 × 19 cm
  • 18 ??: Lady in a red shawl , oil on oak, 16 × 21 cm
  • 18 ??: Children throwing snowballs in a late Gothic courtyard , oil on canvas, 40 × 31.2 cm

Fonts

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Register of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
  2. ^ In the list of members of the record books from 1822–1842 (PDF-p. 53). PDF file from kunstverein.de
  3. ↑ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Kiel artists - Volume 1: Art life and artist trips 1770-1870 . Special publications by the Gesellschaft für Kieler Stadtgeschichte edited by Jürgen Jensen, Volume 75, Boyens, Heide 2014, ISBN 978-3-8042-1406-4 , pp. 68–69
  4. ↑ Hamburg address book 1853
  5. ^ Hamburg address book from 1858
  6. ^ Hamburg address book from 1859
  7. ^ Art sheet of August 29, 1837, pages 285 and 286 (digitized version)
  8. ^ Art sheet of July 19, 1838, page 232 (digitized version)
  9. ^ Art sheet of August 28, 1838, page 275 (digitized version)
  10. ^ Art sheet of June 20, 1839, page 199
  11. ^ Exhibition catalog Paris 1841
  12. ↑ Hamburg portraits , page 14, lower third
  13. ↑ Hamburger Bildnisse , page 58, illustration
  14. ↑ picture in Kiel (black and white picture)
  15. ↑ picture in Berlin
  16. ↑ Illustration of a young Zillertal woman, looking to the left and details on artnet
  17. ↑ Figure cloister in Berchtesgaden
  18. ↑ Figure Veitel Ausserladscheider on Kreiterer and details on artnet
  19. ↑ Article about the raffle in 1836 in the newspaper Bayerische Landbötin (digitized version )
  20. ↑ Figure African woman and gondolier and details on artnet
  21. ↑ Head of a Black Woman on risdmuseum.org
  22. ↑ Proof , date and dimensions of the painting Raft trip on the Isar
  23. ↑ Illustration of a portrait of a Biedermeier gentleman and details on artnet
  24. ^ Description of the thank you plaque for Friedrich August II. In the art paper of November 28, 1843, page 396 near Dresden (digitized version)
  25. ^ Illustration of the thanksgiving table (or a reprint) for Friedrich August II of Saxony
  26. ^ Description of the plaque of thanks to France in the art paper of February 6, 1844, page 44 (digitalized)
  27. ^ Art paper of February 22, 1848, pages 34 and 35
  28. ↑ Figure carved Gothic altar with scenes from the life of Christ and details on artnet
  29. ↑ Illustration of the design for a lid and two spoons and details on artnet
  30. ↑ Illustration of utensils and details on artnet
  31. ^ Lindley album (reprint) at Ketterer Kunst
  32. ↑ Illustration of all 10 reprinted panels from the Lindley album
  33. ^ Lindley album (reprint), Hamburg State Archives and Hamburg State and University Library - special collections (information)
  34. ^ Illustration of a lithograph based on Soltau's portrait by Heinrich Christian Meyer
  35. ↑ Desk at the Stahl auction house
  36. ↑ The Hamburger Künstlerverein and its cup in: Friedrich Eggers (Ed.): Deutsches Kunstblatt , March 1858, p. 76
  37. ^ Medal in Medals Hamburg: 1549 - 2009
  38. ↑ Proof of ABC for art and craft
  39. ↑ Illustration of the drinking horn, one page further the description
  40. ↑ Figure of a saint under a Gothic arch and details on artnet
  41. ↑ Image information on lady in red envelope on kunsthalle-hamburg.de
  42. ↑ Image information on children throwing snowballs in a late Gothic courtyard on kunsthalle-hamburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Soltau, Hermann Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soltau, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1861
Place of death Hamburg