Johann Christian Heerdt

Hessian farmers in front of the homestead

Johann Christian Heerdt (born May 4, 1812 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 1, 1878 in Bockenheim ) was a German landscape painter .

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Heerdt first attended Heinrich Friedrich Höffler's painting school and then studied at the Städelschen Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main with Adolf Johann Hoeffler , with the sculptor Johann Nepomuk Zwerger , with the architect Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer , with the painter and etcher Carl Friedrich Wendelstadt and above all with Philipp Veit , the Director. In 1836 he studied with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he switched from portrait to landscape painting.

In 1836 he moved to Frankfurt with Alfred Rethel and Heinrich Funk . In addition to his own artistic activity, Heerdt also worked there as a drawing teacher at various schools. Many of the motifs in his landscape pictures, often with architecture, come from his travels in the Rhine region , the Taunus and most recently from Upper Bavaria and South Tyrol .

His sister Elise Heerdt was married to the painter Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp . His daughter was the painter Emma Heerdt (1849–1936).

Works (selection)

• Mountain farm in summer with cattle and people; Oil on canvas
• Motif from Cronberg im Taunus, 1852; Oil on canvas
• Street in Kronberg with a view of Falkenstein; Oil on cardboard

literature

• Heerdt, Joh. Christian. 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, p. 478 ( archive.org ).
• Heerdt, Christian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 231-232 .
• Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule Volume 2
• Carsten Roth: Heerdt, Christian . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 71, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023176-2 , p. 40.

Web links

Commons : Johann Christian Heerdt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Images at artnet.de
• Alpine farmhouses in front of high mountains. 1872

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann: The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145.