Johann Wilhelm Preyer

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Johann Wilhelm Preyer , portrayed by Johann Peter Hasenclever , 1846

Johann Wilhelm Preyer (born July 19, 1803 in Rheydt ; † February 20, 1889 in Düsseldorf ) was a German still life painter from the Düsseldorf School .

family

The Preyer family - consisting of Gustav Preyer , Johann Wilhelm and Louise - lived in Eschweiler's old town from 1810 to the mid-1830s . Preyer's daughter Emilie Preyer also painted still lifes. His son Paul (1847–1931) painted genre pictures and portraits. From 1844 Preyer was married to Emilie Lachenwitz, sister of the animal painter Siegmund Lachenwitz .

Life

Emilie Preyer, b. Lachenwitz, painted by Johann Peter Hasenclever in 1842
The Preyer Brothers , painting by Josef Winkelirer

Born in Rheydt, Johann Wilhelm Preyer grew up in Eschweiler. The father had a grocery and materials shop. Like his older brother Gustav, Johann Wilhelm Preyer was dwarfed by stature . He received his artistic training from 1822 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Peter von Cornelius . He became a master student of Wilhelm von Schadow . Long study trips took him to Holland in 1835, to Munich from 1837 to 1843, from where, after the death of his brother Gustav in November 1839, he went with Johann Peter Hasenclever and Tamme Weyert Theodor Janssen to Northern Italy and Venice, and in 1840 to Milan and Switzerland as well Traveled to Tyrol in 1843. In 1844 Johann Wilhelm Preyer returned from Munich to Düsseldorf.

Johann Wilhelm Preyer was one of the founding members of the Association of Düsseldorf Artists, founded in 1844 for mutual support and help , in which Hasenclever was elected to the board. In the first years of the association, the association members took over the guarding of the annual exhibition of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia . He was also one of the founders of the Malkasten artists' association, which was founded in August 1848 . His Düsseldorf residence and studio were first at Pfannenschoppenstrasse 34, today's Klosterstrasse, and around 1887 in his house at Gartenstrasse 33 in Düsseldorf- Pempelfort .

plant

Fruits on a porcelain bowl , 1832

After initial drawing studies based on nature, initially with landscape motifs and a few attempts at portraiture, Preyer had already concentrated on still life during his studies at the academy from 1828 . With this, Preyer laid the foundation stone for the subject of still life painting at the Düsseldorf Academy and is one of the most important representatives of this art genre today. He only cultivated the still life with careful treatment of details and miniature-like replicas of the objects (mostly fruits and flowers). Most of his pictures, which are assigned to the Düsseldorf School of Painting, are in America, several also in the Berlin National Gallery and in the Ravené collection in Berlin. There are also pictures of him in the Düsseldorf City Art Collection . Some, such as the Bockbierbild (original in the Pinakothek in Munich), have been reproduced using color prints.

Honors

In Eschweiler, where the family had lived since the 1810s, a street was renamed Preyerstrasse in 1974 after him and his family members. There is also a Preyerstrasse in Rheydt .

literature

  • Preyer, Johann Wilhelm. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, pp. 325–326 ( archive.org ).
  • Ralf Eschenbrücher: The still life painter Johann Wilhelm Preyer (1803-1889). In: Contributions to the history of the city of Mönchengladbach. 31, Weiss & Zimmer, Mönchengladbach 1992, ISSN  0175-4793 .
  • Siegfried Weiß , Hans Paffrath (ed.): Preyer: Johann Wilhelm 1803–1889 and Emilie 1849–1930: with the catalog raisonné of the paintings by Johann Wilhelm and Emilie Preyer. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86832-003-9 .
    • Johann Wilhelm and Emilie Preyer. With the catalog raisonné of the paintings by Johann Wilhelm and Emilie Preyer. Düsseldorf 2009 ( wienand-koeln.de , PDF)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Preyer, JW, painter, Pfannenschoppenstrasse 34 , in the address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf. 1855.
  2. ↑ Gartenstr. 33: Preyer, Wilhelm, Maler, E. (= owner) . In: Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf. 1887.
personal data
SURNAME Preyer, Johann Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheydt
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1889
Place of death Dusseldorf