Johann Konrad Dorner

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Johann Konrad Dorner (born August 15, 1809 in Balderschwang , Oberallgäu , † June 30, 1866 in Rome ) was a German painter of the Nazarene style and great-nephew of the painter Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder. Ä.

Life

childhood

Dorner was the sixth of 16 children of Konrad Dorner and his wife Anna Maria, geb. Herburger, born. His father was a brick cheese merchant , miller and innkeeper . He spent the first year of his life in the nearby Hittisau in Vorarlberg , then his parents moved to the nearby village of Egg . In elementary school he earned his first kreuzer by helping his classmates with handwriting .

Studied in Munich

After 1824 Dorner came to the Munich Art Academy , where his great-uncle Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder. Ä. Was vice director. Dorner became a student of Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld and Josef Schlotthauer , whose style he appropriated. He was allowed to help Peter von Cornelius with the frescoing of the Ludwigskirche in Munich . From 1831 Dorner exhibited ecclesiastical representations and genre paintings at the Munich Art Association .

Moved to Russia and married

In late 1835, Dorner went to what was then the Russian Baltic States with a Baron von der Osten-Sacken and Baron Alfred von Lüdinghausen-Wolff . He lived first in Mitau and from 1839 in Wilna , where he married the nineteen-year-old Karoline Alexandrine Georgine Retep, adoptive daughter of a von Vegesack , in 1842 . Of the pictures created there, only the portrait of a soldier from 1840 in the Riga Stock Exchange Art Museum in Riga is known.

Work in St. Petersburg

The latest from 1844 lived Dorner in St. Petersburg , where his college friend from Munich days, Josef Andreas White , good relations with the son of the Tsar I. Nicholas and President of the Imperial Academy of Arts , Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg decreed . Dorner was quickly a sought-after portraitist, also painted members of the imperial family and became a member of the imperial academy. Soon he was in the favor of Nicholas I and his wife Charlotte of Prussia . Some of his pictures are stored in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Dorner also created numerous altarpieces for the house chapels of the castles of the Russian nobility, which were preferably destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1917 .

In 1846 Dorner received the major order to create 12 icons for St. Petersburg 's Isaac Cathedral , one of the largest churches in the world with a dome height of 101.5 meters. Dorner belonged to the international artist group around Karl Brüllow , who was responsible for the interior decoration. Dorner received 16,800 silver rubles for his work. The work, completed in 1852, is complete and intact.

Late creative period and death in Rome

In 1853 Dorner returned to Munich and devoted himself exclusively to religious art. It was there that his picture “Ecce homo” was created, which one of Nicholas I's daughters, Olga , Queen of Württemberg, bought after his death . In 1854 Dorner moved on to his brother Hanspeter's inn "Pelegrino" in Bologna .

From the end of 1856 / beginning of 1857 Dorner lived in Rome , concentrated on religious images and kept in contact with Peter von Cornelius. Dorner's house became a meeting place for German artists. In 1857 Charlotte von Prussia and Olga visited him and bought a Madonna picture for 3,000 scudi .

From 1865 Dorner was sick. When he died in mid-1866, he left behind a wife and five children.

Parts of the estate returned to St. Petersburg

On April 24, 2014, the Bremen Senator for Economic Affairs, Martin Günthner, presented a total of 69 items from Dorner's estate to Nikolai Burow, the director of the State Museum of St. Isaac's Cathedral, in St. Petersburg as part of the “German Week”. These include sketches for altarpieces from St. Isaac's Cathedral and studies on icons as well as the artist's passport with Nikolaus I's signature. The objects were purchased in 2003 by the Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation and made available to the Bremen Senate .

The original of the Madonna, which the Tsar's daughter Olga acquired in Rome, as well as other memorabilia can be viewed in Hittisau (Ritter-von-Bergmann-Saal). One picture, “The Player”, is on display in the Vorarlberg Museum in Bregenz .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Gunther le Maire: "A dream job in St. Petersburg" . In: Oberallgäu - Kultur , June 20, 2006. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b cultural chronicle May 6, 2014 . In: Voice of Russia , May 5, 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  3. ↑ Dorner, Johann Konrad . In: Austria Forum , March 28, 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b Gift for St. Petersburg: Senator Günthner hands over sketches for altarpieces in Isaac's Cathedral . In: Bremen Verwaltung online , April 25, 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Dorner, Johann Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dorner, Johann Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Balderschwang
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1866
Place of death Rome