Johannes Bochenek

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Johannes Bochenek - Self-Portrait
Holy Family 1865

Johannes Philip Josef Bochenek (born May 1, 1831 in Hultschin , then Ratibor district , province of Silesia , † December 3, 1909 in Berlin ) was a German painter .

Life

Born in Hultschin as the third of eight children of master carpenter Andreas Bochenek and his wife Barbara Marslik, he first learned the carpentry trade. His drawing and painting art was known since his youth and so he already sold many of his pictures during his apprenticeship. By chance his artistry was recognized by the portrait painter Stein, who worked in Hultschin, who supported the young carpenter in his artistic work and advised his father to train his son at an academy. The Hultschiner sculptor Johannes Janda finally persuaded him to give up his profession and attend the Berlin Art Academy .

In September 1849 he passed the entrance examination and after a short time he received a monthly grant of 3 thalers. One of his sponsors was the Prussian court painter Carl Joseph Begas . His first success was winning the first academy award. Larger orders followed: first St. Barbara , the prodigal son and Christ with the Samaritan woman for the parish church in Tarnowitz . In 1856 he painted the altarpiece in the Protestant church in Marienbad . In 1857 he received the Grand State Prize of the Prussian Academy of the Arts for 1,500 thalers for a three-year study trip to Italy. In the winter of 1858/1859 he lived in Munich. In Rome he studied the drawing and painting style of Roman works of art and learned to paint in watercolors. He stayed in Italy for two years, where he also became acquainted with Peter von Cornelius . In 1861 he returned to Berlin. Here he married Agnes von Rolland.

A very Catholic person all his life , he painted as one of the last of the Nazarene school , mainly creating works of ecclesiastical art of an ideal, tender, deep Roman conception, in the forms of classical calm. In addition, Bochenek was often active as a portrait painter.

Bochenek also gained special significance as an art philosopher and this brought the artist many recognitions. Among other things, he was made an honorary member of the Roman Art Society because of these works . In the last years of his life he spent the summers in his homeland, the Hultschiner Ländchen .

Works (selection)

  • 1870: Altar painting Baptism of Christ for the parish church of John the Baptist in Ostrog
  • Copy of the Holy Family after Murillo for the Gray Sisters in Neisse .
  • Life-size cruzifix for the high altar in Rybnik
  • Baptism of Christ for the Church of John the Baptist in Hultschin
  • St. Anna for Hultschin
  • Prodigal son for Hultschin
  • Heart of Jesus for Ratibor
  • Way of the Cross for St. Nikolai, Ratibor
  • Assumption of the Virgin for the Church of Our Lady (kościół pw. Matki Bożej), Ratibor
  • Jacobus the Elder for the Dominican Church , Ratibor
  • Franz Xaverius for the church in Bauerwitz
  • Thomas of Canterbury for Ratibor Castle
  • St. Barbara for Tarnowitz
  • St. Hedwig for the Hedwig Sisters in Trebnitz
  • All Saints' Day picture , for Benkowitz (now Sudice )
  • Eibsee with Wetterstein , (60.3 × 80 cm)

Works of art philosophy

  • Canon of all human figures and animals , Berlin 1885 [2]
  • The law of beauty. General relationship doctrine, invented and detailed. , Leipzig 1903 [3]

literature

  • E. Jureczka: Johannes Bochenek , in "Oberschlesische Heimat" 1911
  • Paul Wilpert: The painter of the Zauditz church pictures Johannes Bochenek (1831-1909) , in: Der Ratiborer , Vol. 45 H. 518 (1998)

Exhibitions

  • From May 8, 2011: Exhibition about his life and work in the Hultschiner Castle

Web links

Commons : Johannes Bochenek  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Original entry in the Hultschin church book at the bottom right
  2. ↑ Page of the monastery with illustration
  3. ↑ www.askart.com [1]
  4. ↑ Invitation card for the Silesian-German Friends' Association in the Hultschiner Ländchen in cooperation with the Hlučínska Museum
personal data
SURNAME Bochenek, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bochenek, Johannes Philip Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Hultschin
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1909
Place of death Berlin