Johann Christian Wraske

Flower children

Johann Christian Wraske (born May 4, 1817 in Hamburg ; † July 21, 1896 there ) was a German portrait and history painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Johann Christin Wraske was the son of the navigator Johann Wraske. At first he worked as a private teacher in Hamburg. On April 21, 1838 he joined the Hamburg gymnastics club from 1816 . After he had been the second cantor at the main church St. Petri from April 6, 1840 and at the same time had worked as a drawing teacher at the Hamburg orphanage from December 18, 1841 , he went to Düsseldorf in 1847 or 1848 and studied painting until 1852 the Royal Prussian Art Academy with Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow , Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Theodor Hildebrandt . He then resumed both offices in Hamburg, but gave them up again at the end of June 1853 and traveled to Düsseldorf. In Düsseldorf he was one of the members of the artists' association Malkasten . From 1861 at the latest, he lived and worked again in Hamburg, where he was also a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 and the Kunstverein in Hamburg . He was also a member of the General German Art Cooperative . Travels took him to Paris , Munich and Vienna .

In November or December 1866 he gave the Hamburg gymnastics club from 1816 an oil painting that he had painted, depicting the club's founder Wilhelm Benecke (1797-1827) and a copy of a family-owned portrait of Friedrich Carl Gröger from 1819. On September 1, 1867, he gave the gymnastics club another larger than life oil painting that he had painted, showing Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , the father of gymnastics . On October 20, 1879, an oil painting by the gymnast Gustav Gosewisch (1839–1879), which he had also painted, was unveiled in the gymnastics hall. At this point he was no longer a member of the gymnastics club.

The Sugar Licking or Sugar Licking Angel

The television broadcast of the BR Fernsehen on December 5, 2015 of an episode of the series Kunst und Krempel produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk was presented including Wraske's oil painting Der Zuckerlecker . The motif there called the sugar-licking angel represents a sugar-licking cupid symbolizing the “forbidden love” or human sexuality . The painting is signed JC Wraske .

Works (selection)

Dimensions: width × height

• Resting children , oil on canvas, 157 × 207 cm, exhibited at the Düsseldorf art exhibition in 1850
• The daughters of Cid in the forest (based on a ballad by Herder ) , oil on canvas, 157 × 207.5 cm, 1852 - Hamburger Kunsthalle
• The daughters of Cid , drawing after the Hamburg painting, 35.2 × 45.9 cm, 1851 - Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud
• The Niobids , oil on canvas, 425 × 336 cm, 1859 - Hamburger Kunsthalle
• The Niobids , color sketch for the Hamburg painting, 34 × 26 cm, exhibited at the Cologne general German and historical art exhibition in 1861 in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum
• Der Zuckerlecker ( Amor ) , oil on canvas, around 1865 to 1875 - private property
• After the fight , oil on canvas, 240 × 157 cm
• Half-length portrait of the actress Charlotte Ackermann , ink drawing, 38 × 42 cm
• Portrait of Wilhelm Benecke (1797–1827), oil painting, given away in 1866, copy of a painting by Friedrich Carl Gröger from 1819
• Portrait of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , larger than life oil painting, given away in 1867
• Portrait of Gustav Gosewisch (1839–1879), oil painting, unveiled in 1879

literature

• Wraske . In: Georg Kaspar Nagler : Neues Allgemeine Künstler-Lexikon , Volume 22, Verlag von EA Fleischmann, Munich 1852, p. 110
• Wrascke, Johann Christian . In: Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexikon , edited by the Association for Hamburg History , Hoffmann and Campe 1854, pp. 297–298
• Wraske, Joh. Christian . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 567
• Wraske, Joh. Christian . In: Hermann Alexander Müller: Biographical Artist Lexicon . Second edition corrected and supplemented by a supplement. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1884, p. 567
• Wraske, Joh. Chr. Wraske . In: Alfred Lichtwark : Directory of paintings by recent masters . History and organization of the Kunsthalle, Hamburg 1897, p. 172
• Wraske, Johann Christian . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume II, Dresden 1898, p. 1014
• Wraske, Johann Christian . In: Ernst Rump : Lexicon of the Visual Artists Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area , Otto Bröcker & Co., Hamburg 1912, p. 155 and after p. 142 (illustration)
• Wraske, Johann Christian . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : General Artist Lexicon , Volume 5, Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.), Rütten & Loening 1921, p. 126
• Wraske, Joh. Christian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 272 .
• Wraske, Johann Christian . In: Joachim Busse: International Handbook of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century , Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 978-3980006200
• Wraske, Johann Christian . In: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 .
• Maike Bruhns : Wraske, Johann Christian . In: The new rump. Lexicon of the visual artists of Hamburg . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary. Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 522
• Hamburg School - The 19th Century Rediscovered , edited by Markus Bertsch and Iris Wenderholm on behalf of the Hamburger Kunsthalle , Michael Imhof Verlag , Petersberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7319-0825-8 , pp. 57, 61

Web links

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

• Sugar-licking angel (Cupid), video ( art and clutter , excerpt from the broadcast on December 5, 2015, Bayerischer Rundfunk, 5:13 min)
• Johann Christian Wraske at the Hamburger Kunsthalle's online collection
• The daughters of Cid (drawing by the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud) in the picture index of art and architecture
• Johann Christian Wraske , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
• Wraske, Johann Christian in the Union List of Artist Names

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry of the profession in the Hamburg address book 1841
2. ^ ^{A b} Carl Heitmann: Timeline of the history of the Hamburg gymnastics association from 1816: 1816 - 1882. Herbst, Hamburg, 1883, p. 15, 20. ( online )
3. ↑ In the finding aid (link to the Excel file at the bottom of the page) of the student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, it is only entered from 1848.
4. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on January 31, 2017
5. ↑ Entry in the Hamburg address book 1862 (and also in the following)
6. ^ Entry in the list of members from 1886. P. 17 (PDF-S. 11) in: Annual report of the Kunstverein in Hamburg for 1886 . (PDF Daitei) on kunstverein.de .
7. ↑ Roster , General German Art Cooperative, 1890. In Hamburg he stands there as C. Wraske, St. George . According to the Hamburg address book from 1890, JC Wraske lived in St. Georg (Gurlittstrasse 12) and is the only Wraske in the address book.
8. ^ Description of the painting After the Battle , auction catalog, October 1913, Painting Gallery Lorenz-Hamburg , p. 7
9. ↑ The half-length portrait in the auction catalog The Ernst Rump † Carl Stahl † Collections of the Commeter Gallery , December 1931, p. 54