Johannes Heydeck

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Johannes Heydeck opening the grave of Kant. Heydeck hands the skull to Emil Arnoldt , Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer standing with his legs apart to his left . On the right Paul Albrecht holds the lower jaw with the tooth in his hand, on the right next to him Fritz Bessel Hagen. In the foreground the handles of the coffin and on the lower right the metal shield: Cineres mortales immortalis Kantii

Johannes Heydeck (born July 2, 1835 in Sakuthen , Wilkieten district, Memel district (now the Rajongemeinde Šilutė ); † August 6, 1910 in Rauschen , Samland ) was a German history and portrait painter . From 1869 to 1900 he was a professor at the Königsberg Art Academy .

Life

Heydeck was the son of a teacher in Lithuania Minor . He was trained at the Königsberg Art Academy by Ludwig Rosenfelder , whose daughter he married. The fellow student Lovis Corinth was a declared opponent of Heydeck. Heydeck became known after the establishment of the German Empire . Early on and throughout his life he devoted himself to Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz . The painting on her escape, first exhibited in Berlin in 1887, made Heydeck widely known. The City History Museum in Königsberg bought some of his religious and historical paintings as well as portraits of August von Dönhoff , Immanuel Kant and Karl von Horn .

Heydeck's importance for the art history of Königsberg was great and lasting. He took care of the preservation of the art monuments in Königsberg and East Prussia and was one of the discoverers of Nida . With his great interest in prehistory , he became involved in the ancient society Prussia . He had already carried out numerous excavations for them and made reports on their findings. For this, the Faculty of Arts awarded him the University of Konigsberg , the honorary doctorate . He operated and directed the removal of Kant's bones from the professors' vault of the Königsberg Cathedral in June 1880. He recorded the scene in a chalk drawing, from which an engraving was made. The missing drawing shows Heydeck handing Kant's skull to the Kant researcher Emil Arnoldt . In addition to reproductions of the Luisen picture and the Kant excavation, a painting has been preserved in the Hermitage . In the next few years an exhibition of East Prussian artists will commemorate Heydeck's work. He was a member of the Königsberg Freemason Lodge Immanuel .

photos

J. Heydeck: Arrival of the ambassadors in front of the unrest building of the Königsberg Palace on the occasion of the coronation of Wilhelm I (pencil drawing from 1861)
  • Queen Luise fleeing from Königsberg over the Spit to Memel in January 1807
  • The Grand Master of the Marienburg goes to the evening prayer .
  • The sick queen, accompanied by Countess Voss, driving to the beach in an open carriage .
  • Altarpiece in the Sackheim church
  • The four faculties in the auditorium of the Albertus University
  • with Emil Neide and Max Schmidt : Odysseus cycle in the Insterburger Gymnasium (1882)
  • Children's Studies (East German Study Collection)
  • Self-portrait, lost
The Grand Master of the Marienburg goes to the evening prayer

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Old Prussian Biography , Vol. I, p. 274
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Scheunchen: Heydeck, Johannes . In: Kulturportal West-Ost
  3. ^ A b Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 , p.?.
  4. ↑ a b Message from Helmut Scheunchen

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personal data
SURNAME Heydeck, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heydeck, Johannes Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history and portrait painter in Königsberg
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Sakuthen, Kreis Memel , Lithuania Minor
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1910
Place of death Rauschen , East Prussia