Jakob Becker (painter)

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Jakob Becker

Jakob Becker (born March 15, 1810 in Dittelsheim near Worms , † December 22, 1872 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter , etcher and lithographer .

Life

The shepherd struck by lightning
Returning reapers
Portrait of the composer Norbert Burgmüller (1810-1836) , 1896

Jakob Becker was the son of the innkeeper Andreas Becker (* 1833) and his wife Catherine Christine, b. Schörmer (1775-1838). He received his first training from the now little-known painter Carl Nikolaus Jung in Worms. In 1826 he sat in at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main and at the same time worked as a lithographer at the Vogelschen Kunstanstalt in Frankfurt . Here he made friends with the painter Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann and together with him created a precise representation of the Rhine panorama from Mainz to Cologne. In 1833 he traveled to Düsseldorf on behalf of the lithographic institute to draw the painting Die Chorknaben by Theodor Hildebrandt on stone. He stayed in Düsseldorf and attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1833 to 1841 ; his teachers were Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Wilhelm von Schadow . In 1838 Becker married Wally Müller, the sister of his friend Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter , and took her on a 4-week trip via Cologne and Koblenz to Worms and on to Frankfurt am Main; then he settled in Düsseldorf. The marriage had four children. In 1842 Becker became a professor of genre and landscape painting at the Städel Art Institute. His pupils there included the painter Johannes Deiker , known for his hunting motifs , Heinrich Winter , Wilhelm Amandus Beer and Anton Burger , who later belonged to the Kronberg painter colony , as well as Heinrich Hasselhorst and Paul Weber . In Frankfurt, Becker became a member of the Masonic lodge “Socrates for steadfastness”.

Artistic development

After his lithographic beginnings in Frankfurt, Becker initially devoted himself to romanticizing themes, including the painting The Rider and His Little Love in 1834 based on a ballad by Ludwig Uhland . Under the influence of his friend Adolf Schroedter and the painter Rudolf Jordan , who also worked in Düsseldorf , he then turned to narrative painting . a. with the painting Homecoming of a Blind Man with His Daughter in a Thunderstorm (1834). The success of his composition Country People Frightened by Thunderstorms (1840) finally led to his appointment to the Staedelschule in Frankfurt am Main. This is where The Praying Peasant Family , The Storyteller , The Recruit's Farewell and the counterpart The Homecoming Warrior , The Two Game Shooters , The Request for Love , The Pouting And The Returning From Church, Were Made . As a portraitist, Becker created oil paintings and drawings. Becker's compositions are often characterized by closely related groups of people developed from the outline in the Nazarene tradition. This assessment corresponds to the judgment in Meyer's Konversations-Lexikon of 1890: "His drawing is correct and definite, but the color suffers from heaviness and dryness."

Works in public collections (selection)

Schnitter frightened by a thunderstorm (1840): Berlin, Nationalgalerie; Bonn, Rheinische Landesgalerie: Soldiers' Farewell (1842); Portrait of J. Lehnen (drawing): Düsseldorf, Stadtmuseum; The poor family (1848): Frankfurt am Main, Historical Museum; The shepherd struck by lightning (1844): Frankfurt am Main, Staedelsche Kunstsammlungen; Tryst at the fountain (1860): Karlsruhe, Kunsthalle; Game shooters on the run (1839): Poznań, National Museum ; The village fire (1853): Wiesbaden, Municipal Museum.

Honors

Becker's birthplace, Dittelsheim near Worms, honored his most famous son by naming a street that can be found at the end of the village in the direction of Gau-Odernheim in a new building area. His grave is located in the Frankfurt main cemetery and is an honor grave .

Illustrations (selection)

  • In: Album of German artists in original etchings. Buddeus, Düsseldorf 1841 ( urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-1080 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf ).
  • In: Robert Reinick: Songs of a painter with drawings by his friends. - between 1836 and 1852.
    • Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. Schulgen-Bettendorff, Düsseldorf 1838, color portfolio edition ( urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-18668 digitized edition of the University and State Library of Düsseldorf.)
    • Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. Schulgen-Bettendorff, Düsseldorf 1838 ( urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-18244 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf.)
    • Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. Buddeus, Düsseldorf between 1839 and 1846 ( urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-84 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf.)
    • Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. Vogel, Leipzig approx. 1852 ( urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-18254 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf.)

literature

  • Becker, Jacob. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, pp. 59-60 ( archive.org ).
  • Rudolf Schrey: Becker (Becker von Worms), Jacob . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 148–149 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Heinrich Weizsäcker :  Becker, Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 317-321.
  • Wolfgang Metternich: The painter Jakob Becker. A Frankfurt teacher and pioneer in the 19th century. Exhibition in the company museum of Hoechst AG , Höchster Schloss , March 17, 1985 to April 20, 1985. Hoechst AG, Frankfurt a. M. 1985.
  • Wolfgang Metternich: Jakob Becker. The teacher of the Kronberg painters (= documentation of the Museumsgesellschaft Kronberg eV 8). Published by the Museumsgesellschaft Kronberg eV Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-7829-0422-2 [this publication was published for the Jakob Becker exhibition of the Kronberger Museumsgesellschaft from January 26 to February 16, 1991 in the Kronberger Receptur].
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , pp. 93-98 (fig.).

Web links

Commons : Jakob Becker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Possibly the general artist lexicon by Georg Caspar Nagler (ed.) Mentioned Carl Jung, painter from Mainz
  2. ↑ Wally was the daughter of Johann Georg Müller and his wife Johanna, geb. Fox. The daughter Johanna died of typhus in 1859 at the age of 20; Maria (1840–1912) married the founder of Hoechst AG, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Meister in 1861 , the younger daughter Maximiliane (1842–1922) married Dr. Eugen Lucius , also co-founder of Hoechst AG.
  3. ^ Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Volume 1, 1997, p. 94.
  4. ↑ Becker, 10) Jakob . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 2, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 590–591.
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Dittelsheim near Worms
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1872
Place of death Frankfurt am Main