Johann Friedrich Reik

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Johann Friedrich Reik (born November 12, 1836 in Ebersbach an der Fils , † March 24, 1904 in Hall ) was a German painter and drawing teacher.

Life

Johann Friedrich Reik was the oldest child of the Ebersbach baker Johann Ludwig Reik and his wife Wilhelmine geb. Widmann. He had thirteen younger siblings, nine of whom died early.

From 1843 to 1850 he attended the Ebersbach elementary school and probably received his first drawing lessons at the local drawing school for apprentices. He then switched to the teachers' seminar in Nürtingen . The first service examination in 1855 was followed by five years of inconsistent school service in various localities. After the second service examination, he took up a position as a teaching assistant in Geislingen in 1861 . There he continued his education at the drawing school and initially became an assistant to a sculptor. On July 1, 1866, he received a call to the high school in Kirchheim unter Teck , where he was given the newly created position of drawing teacher. He also attended the arts and crafts school in Stuttgart . In 1871 he moved to Hall , where he continued to work as a drawing teacher. Württemberg's King Karl I awarded Reik the title of professor in 1885 .

family

On October 27, 1864, Reik married Sophie Marie Jobst, the daughter of the Nürtingen girls' school teacher Karl Friedrich Jobst. In the following 14 years the marriage produced six children, of which only the daughters Maria (1865-1936) and Klara (1879-1969) and the son Karl (1869-1914) reached adulthood. In Hall, the family lived from 1880 in the Schweinemarkt house no. 248 (today Am Säumarkt 8), which Reik acquired and had it converted.

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Reik was particularly concerned with the architectural motifs of his surroundings, such as the Comburg and other buildings in and around Hall. In the time between 1874 and 1902 he created over 700 pictures. In terms of techniques, he preferred pencil drawing, watercolor and mixed media . While he tried to reproduce the external architectural features of the building in great detail, he was often not interested in the interior, although he did document historical furniture from the 16th and 17th centuries.

As far as the environment was concerned, he apparently wanted a pleasant setting for the buildings shown. On a painting about showing the Haller Badtorweg with Jose tower in the foreground is a cornfield, but not the arm to Reik's time located there of the digester to be seen.

Reik's works are in the Hällisch-Franconian Museum , where the artist's estate is also kept. In 1999, the exhibition Impressions from Hohenlohe was shown there, in which 120 works by Reik were juxtaposed with black and white photographs by the photographer Roland Bauer. He does not seem to have gained national fame.

  • Watercolor, St. Bartholomew's Church in Anhausen

  • Holy Cross Church in Erlach

  • Pilgrimage church to the 14 helpers in need on the Einkorn, reconstructed with drawings

  • St. Maria am Schuppach

Publications

  • Herta Beutter and Armin Panter (eds.): Views from Schwäbisch Hall and its surroundings by Johann Friedrich Reik (1836–1904) . Umschau / Braus, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8295-6322-1

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norbert Michels, Manfred Akermann (Ed.): Views from Hohenlohe: Graphics from four centuries (=  catalogs of the Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum, Schwäbisch Hall . Volume 4 ). J. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1990, ISBN 3-7995-3304-4 , p. 199 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Chronicle of the school ( 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gsg.gp.bw.schule.de
  3. ↑ a b biography of Reik on kloster-grosscomburg.de
  4. ↑ Württembergisch Franken (Yearbook of the Historical Association for Württembergisch Franken) 81, 1997, p. 193
  5. ↑ Comparison between the historical motif and today's view on waymarking.com . The creator suspects that Reik omitted the stove arm in order to achieve a pleasing effect. However, it is questionable whether this body of water would really have been visible from the painter's perspective, cf. this map .
  6. ↑ News from Hohenlohe , archive July 1999, on hall-one.de

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personal data
SURNAME Reik, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and drawing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebersbach
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1904
Place of death Hall