Johann Heinrich Schilbach

Johann Heinrich Schilbach; Pencil drawing by August Ferdinand Hopfgarten , 1827/28

Johann Heinrich Schilbach (* 1798 in Barchfeld ; † May 9, 1851 in Darmstadt ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

Schilbach was a student of the theater painter Johann Georg Primavesi in Darmstadt . In the late summer of 1818 he went on a study tour of several weeks through Switzerland. The drawings and engravings were published by the Johann Peter Lamys publishing house in Bern under the title "Souvenirs Suisse". A Hessian grand ducal scholarship enabled him to go on a study trip to Italy . In 1823 he emigrated to Rome with the Heidelberg painter Ernst Fries , where he met Ludwig Richter . With Richter he went hiking in the Sabine Mountains and traveled with him to Naples in 1825 . There the painters Schilbach, Richter, Carl Götzloff , Ludwig von Maydell , Johann Nikolaus Hoff (1798–1873), and Hans Georg Haderer climbed Vesuvius together .

Darmstadt. View from Riedelsberg in 1816

Coast at Amalfi, 1825

Marina Piccola, Sorrento , 1825

In Rome, Schilbach became a sought-after painter of Italian landscapes and cityscapes . Like other painters of his generation, he began to paint oil studies of nature. During the five years of his stay in Italy, he developed a very free style that combined an immediate view of nature with an ideal sense of large pictorial forms. Schilbach returned from Italy with a collection of 400 sheets of sketches ( drawings and watercolors ). In the years that followed, he executed many of the landscape motifs he had collected as oil paintings . In 1828, the year he returned, he became a court theater painter in Darmstadt. August Weber and August Becker were his students. He continued to practice landscape painting, for example in 1838 he created a painting of Schönberg Palace on Bergstrasse and an undated Rhine landscape with Oberwesel .

meaning

Johann Heinrich Schilbach was primarily a landscape painter. His Italian landscapes show the style features typical of his generation of romanticism in transition to realism .

Works (selection)

• Darmstadt from Riedelsberg , 1816
• Coast near Amalfi , around 1825 ( Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt , graphic collection)
• Sorrente , pencil and watercolor on paper, 1825 (Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt)
• High mountain landscape, watercolor on cardboard, 1826
• Wooded shores of the Königsee , colored drawing, around 1826–30 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints, inv. No. 2006.339)
• The Rosenlauigletscher , 1835 ( Frankfurt am Main , Museum Giersch , exhibition 2009/2010)
• View of Arricia , oil on canvas, 1842 ( Vienna , Österreichische Galerie Belvedere , inv.no.5560)
• Lautertal in the Odenwald , oil on canvas, 1845 (Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eva Haberkorn, Extraordinary Careers, The Becker Family Archives in the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt, archive news from hessen, 15/1, 2015, p. 9

literature

• Johann Heinrich Schilbach (1798-1851). The dream of the south. Drawings, oil studies and paintings . Catalog for the exhibition in the Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, 2000, ISBN 3-9332-5714-X .
• Magic of the moment; Sketches and studies in oils . Catalog for the exhibition at the Museum Giersch Frankfurt / Main, 2009
• Jens Christian Jensen : watercolors and drawings of the German romanticism . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1992, p. 184, ISBN 3-7701-0976-7 .
• Andrea Tietze:  Schilbach, Johann Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 754 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Bernd Krimmel , Elisabeth Krimmel, Thomas Reinheimer: Heinrich Schilbach, Studies after Nature , Darmstadt 1984.

Web links

Commons : Johann Heinrich Schilbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Johann Heinrich Schilbach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Florian Illies : Feeling more precisely , in: » Die Zeit «, June 22, 2015