Jean Nicolas Ponsart

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Jean Nicolas François Ponsart (born April 23, 1788 in Malmedy , Imperial Abbey Stablo-Malmedy ; † March 4, 1870 ibid) was a Walloon draftsman and lithographer . His romantic views, published in books and portfolios, show vedute of the Prussian Rhine province , especially the Ahr valley of the 19th century, which he portrayed as one of the first artists of the Düsseldorf school .

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View of the city ​​theater in Aachen , 1826
View of the lock and the ship's dock in Antwerp , with the Hansahaus in the background , around 1827
View of the castle and town of Blankenheim , around 1835
View of Kreuzberg Castle , around 1835

In 1807 Ponsart was sent by his father, the merchant Antoine Sigismond Lambert Ponsart, son of a tanner born in Liège , and his wife Marie Elisabeth Thérèse, née Hermann, to Godesberg and to the secondary school in Bonn, thus the youngest son in the interests of the trading house Ponsart Learn German. Then his father sent him to an apprenticeship at the Paris trading house Dubourg & Périet. In 1808 the family managed to buy their son out of French military service. In 1811 Ponsart returned to Malmedy to join his father's company. Until 1816 he served as a Prussian Landwehr officer , where he suffered hearing damage in a battle. In 1817 he married Hélène Françoise Faymonville, who died in 1818 without having given birth to him.

Ponsart gave up his learned profession in leather manufacture in 1818 in order to study painting with Peter Cornelius at the newly founded Art Academy in Düsseldorf until 1825 . In 1825 Ponsart was hired as a decorative painter and set designer at the theater in Aachen . Then he went via Antwerp to Brussels , where he met the painter Jean-Baptiste Madou , with whom he published lithographs in 1828 and 1829. Shortly after the July Revolution of 1830 , he went to Paris , where he rented 21 rue des Petites Ecuries and exhibited drawings of the Meuse landscape from Givet to Liège in the Salon de Paris . In 1835 he moved to 45 rue de la ferme des Mathurins .

His illustrations began to appear from the 1820s. In 1829 his work Nouvelle route de Liége à Aix-la-Chapelle et Spa par Chaufontaine (German: The new route from Liège to Aachen and Spa via Chaudfontaine ) appeared in Brussels as a collection of 24 lithographic views . The landscape scenes of the late 1830s are considered to be the high point of his oeuvre, which aimed at topographical accuracy in addition to a painterly effect. In the Parisian art institution Engelmann he gave in 1831, the lithographic series Souvenirs de l'Eyfel et des Bords de l'Ahr dans la Prusse Rhénane (German: reminder of the Eifel and the banks of the Ahr in Rhenish Prussia ) out. This was followed by the publication Souvenirs de la Prusse Rhénane (German: Memories of Rheinpreußen ), a series of lithographs about the five administrative districts of the Rhine Province , dedicated to Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm , who took “quite a lively interest” in Ponsart's work in 1834 and gave him a “golden Memorial coin "awarded. The work was enthusiastically received by contemporary critics. In 1838/1839 Ponsart published the publication Vallee de l'Ahr, Prusse Rhénane (German: Ahrtal, Rheinpreußen ). André Henri Constant van Hasselt wrote an introduction to this. In 1840 he published a richly illustrated hiking map for the central Ahr valley in German and French under the title Itinéraire de la vallée de l'Ahr depui Rech jusqu'á Kreuzberg (German: Directions for the Ahr Valley from Rech to Kreuzberg ) . The work led the tourist along the hiking trails that existed at the time to the sights of the river valley, which Ponsart - not without pointing out tourist-relevant transport facilities such as the stagecoach route and the Ahrtalstrasse - represented in the section between Rech and Kreuzberg Castle with a three-dimensional map.

After a short stint with his painter friend Madou in Brussels, where both published lithographs, to which Ponsart contributed the landscapes and Madou the figures, Ponsart is said to have re-enrolled in 1842, with Eduard Wilhelm Pose (1812–1878) and with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807-1863). During this time he appeared briefly and without economic success as a genre painter , mainly of pub scenes. The second edition of his lithography series about the Ahr valley appeared in later years under the title Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Provinces de Bas-Rhin (German: Picturesque journey in the two Lower Rhine provinces ).

Despite some business acumen, which was already evident in the invitation to subscribe to his lithographic works at the beginning of his work , Ponsart did not become wealthy. As an art teacher at the Malmedy High School, he decided to start his professional career between 1842 and 1866. Every now and then he is said to have worked as an architect in Malmedy in addition to painting. In 1858 he was made an honorary member of the Belgian Society of Watercolor Artists.

literature

  • Hans Gerd Lauscher: The lithographic work of Jean Nicolas Ponsart (1788–1870) . Art and culture center of the Aachen city region, Monschau 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030393-7 .
  • Conrad-Peter Joist: In the footsteps of Jean Nicolas Ponsart. Model for numerous Eifel artists . In: Eifel-Jahrbuch , 2003, pp. 91-106.
  • Ernst Burkardt : The painting of Nicolas Ponsart. Motives and intentions . In: Home yearbook of the Ahrweiler district . Year 1993, p. 173.
  • Jules Bosmant: La peinture et la sculpture au Pays de Liège de 1793 à nos jours . Mawet, Liège 1930.
  • Jules Helbig : Ponsart (Jean Nicolas François) . In: Biographie nationale , XVIII, 1905, col. 819.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Ruland: The Lochmühle near Mayschoss and the Düsseldorf School of Painting ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website in the portal Kreis.aw-online.de , accessed on June 9, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreis.aw-online.de
  2. ^ Jürgen Haffke: 200 years of tourism in the Ahr Valley. From "Lower Rhine Switzerland" to "Paradise for connoisseurs" . Website from September 9, 2013 in the rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de portal , accessed on June 8, 2014
  3. ^ Jean Nicolas Ponsart: Nouvelle route de Liége à Aix-la-Chapelle et Spa par Chaufontaine . Dewasme-Pletinckx, Brussels 1829 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ Rheinische Provincial-Blätter for all stands , Volume 4, p. 79
  5. ^ Didaskalia. Leaves for Spirit, Mind and Publicity , No. 274, October 4, 1839
  6. ↑ Ignaz Görtz: A hiking map for the Mittelahr from 1840 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website in the portal Kreis.aw-online.de , accessed on June 8, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreis.aw-online.de
  7. ↑ See for example Johann Peter Joseph Monheim: Die Heilquellen von Aachen, Burtscheid, Spaa, Malmedy and Heilstein Verlag JA Mayer, Aachen, Leipzig 1829, p. 363
personal data
SURNAME Ponsart, Jean Nicolas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ponsart, Jean Nicolas François (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Walloon-Rhenish draftsman and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Malmedy ( Imperial Abbey of Stablo-Malmedy )
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1870
Place of death Malmedy ( Imperial Abbey of Stablo-Malmedy )