Ismael Gentz

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Ismael Wolfgang Christian Gentz (born June 18, 1862 in Berlin ; † October 20, 1914 there ) was a German painter , draftsman and lithographer .

life and work

Ismael Gentz ​​was a son of the painter Wilhelm Gentz , from whom he also received his training. His earliest surviving works include sketches that he made on a trip to Karlovy Vary and that brought him a complaint with the police for harassment. In the late 1870s he traveled with his father to Algiers via Italy . Portraits that he drew on this trip were later included in Georg Ebers ' work Egypt in words and pictures . From 1879 he attended the art academy in Berlin. In 1888 and 1889 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There was Peter Janssen the Elder his teacher. In the years 1889/90 he went on a trip to Tunis and Tripoli with his parents . From the later 1880s he regularly participated in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . In 1892 he stayed in Paris to study. He was best known for his portraits of contemporaries. The portraits were partly lithographically, partly also photomechanically reproduced.

Ismael Gentz ​​died in Berlin in 1914 at the age of 52 and, like his father, was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . Both graves have not been preserved.

Exhibitions

In 1906 the Hamburger Kunstverein showed the exhibition “O. Altenkirch, Ismael Gentz ​​& Jul. Rehder ”; In 1911 Gentz ​​took part in a group exhibition at the same institution. In 2006/07 the exhibition “Drawings on Five Centuries” was on view at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , in which Gentz ​​was also represented.

Museum reception

Gentz's portrait of Karl Heinrich von Boetticher from 1897 is in the Schleswig-Holstein State Library. The Naumburg Museum owns a portrait of Max Klinger by Ismael Gentz. The Georg Schäfer Museum in Schweinfurt also owns at least one work by him. In 2006 the Museum Neuruppin received an oil painting by Gentz ​​that the donor's uncle found in a wagon at a Berlin paper wholesaler in 1945. His nephew gave the picture to the museum, which already has a collection of Gentz's paintings.

The grave relief for Ismael Gentz ​​(modeled by Wilhelm Wandschneider ), formerly on the grave site in the old St.-Matthäi-Kirchhof Berlin, is now in the holdings of the "Mitte Museum". His father's grave relief is also preserved there (modeled by Gustav Bläser ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Ismael Gentz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kunstlex.de/Ismael-Gentz-1862.htm
  2. ↑ Nathanjah Sahuwi, Ismael Gentz , in: Ost und West 1902, issue 3, columns 85–98, here column 92
  3. ↑ Cf. nos. 4042 and 4043 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
  4. ↑ http://www.textlog.de/40298.html
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 301.
  6. ↑ http://www.artfacts.net/de/kuenstler/ismael-gentz-160179/profil.html#Biography
  7. ↑ http://www.virtual-history.com/art/person/6208/ismael-gentz
  8. ↑ http://www.museen-sh.de/ml/digi_einzBild.php?s=3&t=1&sparte=museen&inst=&vert=12&b=49261&pid=mVS7VHfEVMhc2Al1Luw5S100813&v_ PERIOD = 101&mab_id=&action = 1001000B & 42
  9. ↑ http://www.mv-naumburg.de/objektpatenschaften
  10. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historischer-verein-ruppin.de
personal data
SURNAME Gentz, Ishmael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gentz, Ismael Wolfgang Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1914
Place of death Berlin