Johann Wilhelm Lindlar

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Johann Wilhelm Lindlar

Johann Wilhelm Lindlar (born December 9, 1816 in Bergisch Gladbach ; † April 23, 1896 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School . He is the only well-known painter that Bergisch Gladbach produced in the 19th century.

Life

Lindlar initially worked as a teacher at various schools in the Rhine Province . In 1845 he turned to painting. From 1846 to 1848 he was a student of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1849 to 1851 he worked in a master workshop at the academy.

Lindlar was one of the founding members of the Malkasten artists' association . On February 5, 1857, he made a statement in which he publicly accused the director of the Düsseldorf Academy, Wilhelm von Schadow , of “terrorism” and “nepotism”. From 1867 to 1871 he was managing director of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia . Until his death in 1896 he made numerous trips to the Alps . Friedrich Wilhelm Schreiner was a private student of Lindlar .

Works

Rest at the foot of the glacier

His studio compositions depict the untouched nature of the Swiss Alps and the Mediterranean landscape of the northern Italian lakes. Icy peaks, dramatic clouds, foaming waterfalls and vegetation defying the elements are the common means of expression in his visual language, in which he orientated himself to his teacher Johann Wilhelm Schirmer throughout his life. However, based on numerous, realistic nature studies, Lindlar increases the realistic elements, whereby the late romantic ideal of the landscape is occasionally overlaid with vedute-like features.

The Galerie Villa Zanders owns about a dozen works by his hand. The complete oeuvre, comprising over 500 paintings and many of which were exported to the New World , is largely lost.

Honors

Monument to Johann Wilhelm Lindlar in the pedestrian zone of Bergisch Gladbach Stadtmitte
  • The city of Bergisch Gladbach dedicated Johann-Wilhelm-Lindlar-Strasse to him.
  • A monument in the pedestrian zone shows a bronze bust of him together with other well-known personalities of the city of Bergisch Gladbach.

literature

  • Lindlar, Johann Wilhelm . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 339.
  • Lindlar, Johann Wilhelm . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 881 f.
  • Gaby Lindlar: Landscape painting between romanticism and realism . Johann Wilhelm Lindlar (1816–1896) - a painter of his time. In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (Hrsg.): Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar . tape 1985 . Joh. Heider, Bergisch Gladbach, ISBN 3-87314-145-0 , p. 144-148 .
  • Ferdinand Schmitz: Johann Wilhelm Lindlar and his way to free artistry . In: Glorious Mountains. Local history supplement of the Heider newspaper . No. 13 . Bergisch Gladbach 1934.
  • Ferdinand Schmitz: The landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Lindlar . In: Glorious Mountains. Local history supplement of the Heider newspaper . No. 15 . Bergisch Gladbach 1934.
  • Christoph Dautermann: Enthusiasm for the Alps as reflected in 19th century painting, Imhof-Verlag Petersberg 2016, pp. 228–231.

Web links

Commons : Johann Wilhelm Lindlar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145
  2. ^ Sabine Schroyen: Sources on the history of the artists' association Malkasten. A center of bourgeois art and culture in Düsseldorf since 1848. LVR-Archivhefte, Volume 24, Rheinland-Verlag Habelt, Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1293-8 , p. 20 ( PDF )
  3. ^ Website of the municipal gallery Villa Zanders ( Memento from December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Lindlar, Johann Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergisch Gladbach
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1896
Place of death Dusseldorf