Jean Bungartz

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Letterhead with portrait of Jean Bungartz
Jean Bungartz's house in Lechenich Zehntstrasse 8 with a memorial plaque

Jean Bungartz (born May 6, 1854 in Cologne , † September 15, 1934 in Münster ) was a German animal painter , author and illustrator of numerous animal books and a photographer.

Life

Jean Bungartz, the son of the bookbinder Johann Bungartz and his wife Maria geb. Bley, was married to Maria geb. Burmeal. At the beginning of the 1880s he worked as an animal painter and editor in Hamburg and founded the Hamburg Association for the Promotion of Pure Dog Breeds .

In April 1886 he moved with his family to Lechenich , Erftstadt . In 1893 he founded the German Association for Medical Dogs , which he headed until 1909 and thus laid the foundation for today's rescue dog system. In his dressage and breeding institute built in Lechenich in 1894, he trained dogs, which he handed over to the Red Cross . The dogs were able to find the wounded in the area. His writings The War Dog and His Dressage and The Dog in the Service of the Red Cross were discussed in the Illustrirten Zeitung in 1892 . In 1886, Bungartz also published a very detailed drawing of the celebrations for the inauguration of the Lechenich synagogue on September 10, 1886 in this newspaper.

The years in Lechenich were among his most productive. In 1895 he published his richly illustrated work on farm chickens with contributions on the different breeds of chicken . He has also published and illustrated books about pigeons, cats, rabbits, fish and the African animal world in Namibia (then German South West Africa). His detailed drawings have made him internationally famous as an animal painter.

In 1903 he moved to Oberdollendorf to devote even more time to training dogs in the medical service. After he had to give up his work for health reasons in 1909, he returned to Lechenich, where he took over the chairmanship of the poultry breeding association for Lechenich and the surrounding area . He lived with his family in Lechenich until 1913.

  • Drawings, illustrations (selection)

  • Inauguration of the synagogue in Lechenich 1886 Drawing by Jean Bungartz

  • Chicken breeds by Jean Bungartz postcard around 1910

  • Bottlenose dolphins from Vienna, 1882

  • Whaling using the latest fishing methods (1885)

Bungartz was the holder of the first class gold medal and the Grande Diplome d'honneur of the Academy of Art and Science in Belgium, of which he was a member. He had 40 gold and silver state and exhibition diplomas and honorary diplomas, as can be read on his letterhead. He was also an honorary member of a number of animal breeding associations. He described himself as a "knight pp. Animal painter and writer ”.

A street in Lechenich is named after him.

Fonts

  • Kynos. Handbook for the assessment of the racial purity of the dog. Neff, Stuttgart 1884.
  • The war dog and its training . Twietmeyer, Leipzig 1892.
  • The dog in the service of the red cross . Twietmeyer, Leipzig 1892.
  • Illustrated cat book . Berlin 1896.

literature

  • Helmut Weingarten: Jean Bungartz died 100 years ago. In: Yearbook of the city of Erftstadt. 1998.
  • Frank Bartsch, Hanna Stommel: Lechenich. From Roman times until today. An illustrated city history . Erftstadt-Lechenich 2004, ISBN 3-924576-07-6
  • Frank Bartsch (ed.): Continuity and change in the country. The Rhine Prussian mayor of Lechenich in the 19th and early 20th centuries (1815-1914). Landpresse, Weilerswist 2012, ISBN 978-3-941037-91-5 . (History in the Euskirchen district, vol. 26)
  • Julia Fabienne Klan: The German Association for Medical Dogs and the Medical Dog System in Germany (1893-1946) . VVB Laufersweiler, Giessen 2009, ISBN 3-8359-5374-5 . (also Diss. med. vet. Leipzig 2009)
  • Bernhard Pickert: Unvergessenes-rounder in the field of wildlife: Jean Bungartz, a "knight pp." . In: rabbit newspaper. No. 13, 2012, pp. 16–18 (online since July 31, 2010; pdf, 345 kB )

Web links

Wikisource: Jean Bungartz  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Jean Bungartz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Frank Bartsch: Continuity and change in the country. The Rhenish Prussian mayor of Lechenich in the 19th and early 20th centuries (1815 - 1914). Pp. 122-123.
  2. ↑ Julika Renger: Social debates about the economic and psychosocial use of the dog from 1870-1945 in Germany . Dissertation. mbv, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86664-638-4 , p. 19 .
personal data
SURNAME Bungartz, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animal painter and author of various books
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1934
Place of death Muenster