Jacob Reiners
Jacob (Jakob) Reiners (born February 28, 1828 in Lobberich am Niederrhein; † September 17, 19 or 21 September 1907 in Brühl ) was a German portrait , genre and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Live and act
Reiners was the son of the dyer Peter Jacob Reiners and the dyer Sybilla Catharina (nee Kauertz). After leaving school, he studied painting from 1847 to 1850 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and became a master student of Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow and Karl Ferdinand Sohn . Further teachers were Josef Wintergerst and Rudolf Wiegmann . In 1848 Reiners was one of the 112 co-founders of the Düsseldorf paint box . In addition to his artistic activities, he taught at a boys' school .
Reiners was married to Theodora (née Aldenhoven). The couple had several children, among them the later art historian Heribert Reiners , who dedicated a chapter of the reception of Gothic in Germany to his father in 1909 to commemorate the work The Rhenish Choir Stalls of Early Gothic in Germany .
Reiners spent the last months of his life in Brühl, where he died in 1907. He found his final resting place in the Lobbericher cemetery. In honor of the Reiners family, a street in Lobberich was named after him. In the case of Reinersstrasse in Kempen, on the other hand, the painter C (Ornelius) A. Reiners is meant, who received his confirmation in Lobberich in 1731; a relationship could not be proven.
Works (selection)
Many of Reiners' works have not survived, some can be found in relevant auction catalogs. The focus of his artistic work was portrait painting, especially in the area of the Rhenish and Westphalian nobility. In addition, he was engaged in Christian works. For example, he was largely responsible for the restoration of the altar painting in the Lambertus Chapel in Eupen , the copy of the Assumption of Mary by Peter Paul Rubens made by an unknown artist . He also dealt with moral painting, for example with the portrait of The Card Reader , which is considered lost. He also made interiors and atmospheric landscapes.
literature
- Reiners, Jakob . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 239 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - Supplements).
- Reiners, Jacob . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934.
- Joachim Busse: International handbook of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century. Verlag Busse Art Documentation GmbH. Frankfurt / Main 1977.
Web links
- Jakob Reiners (German, 1828–1907). artnet.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mixed News - Jacob Reiners . In: The Christian Art . 4th year, issue 3rd Society for Christian Art Kunstverlag, Munich December 1, 1907, p. 29 ( Text archive - Internet Archive - obituary in the enclosure).
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
- ↑ Inventory list of paint boxes Düsseldorf
- ↑ Heribert Reiners: The Rhenish choir stalls of the early Gothic in Germany a chapter of the reception of the Gothic in Germany . Heitz, Strasbourg 1909 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Reinersstrasse in Lobberich
- ↑ Reinersstraße in Kempen
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reiners, Jacob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reiners, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait, genre and landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Praise |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th September 1907 |
| Place of death | Bruehl (Rhineland) |