Jakob Friedrich Dörr (painter)

Jakob F. Dörr: Prof. Wilhelm Gottfried Ploucquet (1744–1814), (oil on canvas, 1783; Tübingen Professorengalerie )

Jakob Friedrich Dörr (also shortened to Jakob Dörr , * 1750 in Tübingen , † 1788 ibid) was a portrait painter from Württemberg in Tübingen. He was the father of the painter Christoph Friedrich Dörr .

Life

Jakob Friedrich Dörr was born as the son of the button maker and later mayor of Tübingen Christoph Adam Dörr and his second wife Juliane Friederike. Hagmaier, daughter of the pastor of Beihingen am Neckar , born in Holzmarkt 5. The only Tübingen painter at the time, the university painter Wolfgang Dietrich Majer , died when Jakob was still a child, so it is hard to guess who his first teachers were. In any case, Dörr later went to Düsseldorf , where he supposedly studied French and Dutch art.

Back in Tübingen, he continued to live in his father's house on the Holzmarkt and painted portraits, including of the Tübingen professors, for the auditorium's gallery. He was officially registered as a university painter in 1780. This meant that he was recognized as an official university painter, but did not bring in any steady income. The income earned him the individual jobs that he now got preferred. He has also apparently been giving private drawing lessons to students since then. Dörr not only made oil paintings, but also silhouettes, miniatures and "petty bourgeois, more decorative" representations of small format.

criticism

Silhouette and entry of Jakob Friedrich dried in the pedigree of a student (11 March 1783)

Dörr's early portraits, such as B. that of Johann Friedrich Stockmayer, nothing can be seen from the studies of French and Dutch art. They differ, however, clearly from the decorative, elegant, albeit similar, images of professors and dignitaries from Tübingen, which Majer made in the middle of the eighteenth century. Dörr's simple, sober conception is unrepresentative, petty-bourgeois. Only his pictures for the professors' gallery have something special because of their ties to custom and tradition. The elaborate depiction of the clothing and the colors are determined by the objectivity, the details of the bulging faces show all care and an occasional dry conscientiousness. In addition, over the years there is increasing effort to work out individual characteristics and peculiarities beyond the purely objective reproduction. Both of these factors determine that Dörr's portraits develop into a personal conception and are therefore more progressive than the portraits of Nicolas Guibal's students . His portraits are uniform and similar, which Werner Fleischhauer interprets as "a lack of thought and artistic and spiritual agility". In spite of this, Dörr was able to protect the simple, bourgeois approach to his pictures from a trivial objectivity through a consciously individual, self-confident attitude and through his physiognomic interest.

More famous works

• 1776 Johann Friedrich Stockmayer [Councilor]
• 1783 Professor Wilhelm Gottfried Plouquet (oil on canvas, 81 × 65 cm; University of Tübingen, professors' gallery )

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: Das Bildnis ... , p. 58
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Werner Fleischhauer: Das Bildnis ... , p. 59
3. ↑ Silke Schöttle: "Mahler Glocker ..." , pp. 18/22
4. ↑ This is supported not only by the fact that after Dörr's death in 1789, the painter and copper engraver Christian Friedrich Schouckard also expressly applied as a drawing teacher for the vacant position of the university painter, as well as an entry in Dörr's student register. (Silke Schöttle: "Mahler Glocker ..." , p. 18)

literature

• Silke Schöttle: "Mahler Glocker informs in the Zaichnen". Traces of first drawing lessons in the 18th century . In: Artists for Students. Pictures of the university drawing teachers 1780–2012 , ed. by Evamarie Blattner, Wiebke Ratzeburg, Ernst Seidl, Stadtmuseum Tübingen 2012 (= Tübingen Catalogs No. 94), ISBN 978-3-941818-13-2
• Werner Fleischhauer : The portrait in Württemberg 1760-1860. History, artists and culture , Stuttgart: Metzler 1939

Web links

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

• Studion: Tübingen Professorengalerie