Johannes Heydeck
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
- 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
Honors
- Member of the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts
- Dr. phil. H. c. of the Albertus University of Königsberg (1894)
literature
- Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1909.
- Ostpreußische Zeitung 1910, p. 13.
- Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 , p.?.
- Wulf D. Wagner , Heinrich Lange: The Königsberg castle. A building and cultural history . Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-1953-0 , pp. 262, 264, 294, 295, 330.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Old Prussian Biography , Vol. I, p. 274
- ↑ a b Helmut Scheunchen: Heydeck, Johannes . In: Kulturportal West-Ost
- ^ A b Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 , p.?.
- ↑ a b Message from Helmut Scheunchen
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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 |