Johannes Gehrts

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Johannes Gehrts , also Jochen Gehrts (born February 26, 1855 in St. Pauli , † October 5, 1921 in Düsseldorf ), was a German painter , book illustrator and costume designer .

Life

Armin says goodbye to Thusnelda , 1884, Zehntscheune, Lippisches Landesmuseum
Odhin , woodcut, book illustration 1901

Johannes Gehrts was born as the son of the painter JH Gehrts . The family lived in the “new Friedrichstrasse courtyard No. 17”. His older brother was the painter Carl Gehrts , his younger the painter and illustrator Franz Gehrts . Johannes Gehrts married Laura Adeline Adelgunde Auguste Koettgen (1848–1924), a daughter of the painter Gustav Adolf Koettgen and older sister of his sister-in-law Anna .

Gehrts attended the art academy in Weimar from 1873 to 1876 and was taught by Albert Baur , among others . Johannes Gehrts lived and taught in Düsseldorf from 1884. He belonged to the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

On the III. International exhibition of watercolors, pastels, hand drawings and etchings in Dresden in 1892 he exhibited four pictures: “In the desolate moor”, “On the trail of the dragon”, “Grimme enemies” and “After a difficult fight”. Gehrts is considered an important book illustrator of the 19th century. Many of his pictures were printed in the gazebo and in the flying leaves . He illustrated books on Germanic heroic sagas, naval and pirate stories, travel adventure novels and fairy tales. The paintings and illustrations of heroic sagas, mythology and folk life of the Germanic peoples earned him the nickname “Germanen-Gehrts”.

He was a member of the Marchia Bonn fraternity .

Works (selection)

Book illustrations

  • Reinhold von Werner : The book of the German fleet . 3., presumably u. continued edition of the book by the North German fleet. Illustrated by Wilhelm Diez , Johannes Gehrts a. a. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1880.
  • Felix Dahn : Harald and Theano. A poem in five songs . Illustrated by Johannes Gehrts. 2nd edition Tietze, Leipzig 1885. Digitized MDZ
  • The small world for the small world. A picture book on pleasure and teaching for mother and child. In friezes after original watercolors by Woldemar Friedrich ; Carl and Johannes Gehrts; Adolf von Grundherr ; Julius Kleinmichel ; Carl Röhling ; Franz Simm ; Hermann Vogel and with accompanying stanzas by Julius Lohmeyer ; Frida Schanz and Johannes Trojan . Weise, Stuttgart 1885.
  • Oskar Höcker : The Hansa brothers. Historical story from the heyday of the North German merchants' association. Appropriate for the more mature youth . With many illustrations. by Johannes Gehrts. Hirt, Leipzig 1886. (Merksteine ​​German bourgeoisie, Volume 1)
  • Sophie Wörishöffer : The book of the good man. Pictures from sea life with special consideration of the Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People . With many illustrations by Johannes Gehrts; 3rd edition Hirt, Leipzig 1888.
  • JH Otto Kern: The scourge of the South Seas. Life and deeds of a buccaneer of the present time. Told the mature youth . With many illustrations by Johannes Gehrts. Shepherd, Leipzig 1890
  • Frederick Marryat : The Flying Dutchman. A sailor legend. After captain Marryat freely editable for the more mature youth. by Otto Hoffmann. With 4 color print pictures after watercolors by Joh. Gehrts. 2nd edition Thienemann, Stuttgart 1891.
  • Karl von den Steinen : Among the primitive peoples of Central Brazil. Travel description and results of the second Schingú expedition, 1887–1888 . With 30 plates and 160 text illustrations based on the photographs of the expedition, based on the original photographs by Wilhelm von den Steinen and based on drawings by Johannes Gehrts, along with a map by Prof. Dr. Peter Vogel. D. Reimer (Hoefer & Vohsen), Berlin 1894.
  • Hanns von Zobeltitz : The sunken gold ship. An adventurous story from three continents . With watercolor cover picture and 12 full pictures in tone print, as well as 22 chapter vignettes by Johannes Gehrts. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1898.
  • Bruno Garlepp : The puss king. Story from the Hungarian steppe life . With 8 audio images based on drawings by Johannes Gehrts. Hirt, Leipzig 1902. (Beyond the border posts, Volume 4)
  • Westphalian costume book. The present and former Westphalian and Schaumburg areas include. With 24 plates in color print, numerous text illustrations and a historical overview map edited by Franz Jostes . With original drawings by Johs. Gehrts. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1904.
  • German book of heroes. Richard Weitbrecht tells the German people . Illustrations by Johs. Gehrts and Richard Ernst Kepler . 3rd edition Union Deutscher Verlags-Gesellschaft, Stuttgart 1905.
  • Friedrich Gerstäcker : The little whale catcher. Story for the youth . With 5 color print pictures after watercolors by Joh. Gehrts. %. Ed. Neufeld & Henius, Berlin 1910.
  • Julius Wolff . All works . Edited by Joseph von Lauff . Volume 2. Sülfmeister. An old city story . With full pictures by Johs Gehrts. List, Leipzig 1912.
  • Rudolph Vogel: spider woman. Fairy tales and tales for young and old. Told his children . With pictures by Johs. Gehrts. 3rd edition Perthes, Gotha 1812.
  • Friedrich J. Pajeken : Bob the millionaire. A story from the west of North America. For the youth . With illustrations after drawings by Joh. Gehrts. 7th edition Gehlen, Leipzig 1913.
  • Frieda Amerlan : gods and heroes of the ancient Germans. The Edda retells . With pictures by Johannes Gehrts. 6th edition. Meidinger, Berlin 1915.

Portraits

literature

  • Gehrts, Johannes . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 364.
  • Art chronicle and art market. Weekly for connoisseurs and collectors . Volume 33, part 1. EA Seemann, Jeipzig 1922, p. 40.
  • German biographical yearbook . Volume 3. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, p. 299.
  • Inge Hermstrüwer, Sabine Schroyen: Düsseldorfer Malerschule letters and documents. Inventory of autographs in the art archive of the Heinrich Heine Institute - state capital; Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1991, p. 35 f.

Web links

Commons : Johannes Gehrts  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg address book . Hermann's Erben, Hamburg 1855, p. 100.
  2. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt: On the history of Düsseldorf art in particular in the XIX. Century . Edited by Kunstverein for the Rhineland and Westphalia. Düsseldorf 1902, p. 321.
  3. ↑ Registration form at Kotte-Autographs, January 3, 2017.
  4. ↑ In the years 1880, 1881, 1885 and 1886 his drawings were printed there.
  5. ^ Franz Goldstein, Ruth Kähler, Hermann Kähler: Monogram Lexicon 1. International directory of monograms by visual artists since 1850 . W. de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, p. 948.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Mecklenburg et al .: Ex libris: Book Art and Applied Graphics , Volumes 9/10, 1899, p. 91
  7. ↑ Gehrts, Johannes . Articles in the portal foundation-volmer .com , accessed on November 3, 2014
  8. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 24.
personal data
SURNAME Gehrts, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gehrts, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and book illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-St. Pauli
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1921
Place of death Dusseldorf