Josef Schex

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Josef Schex (born March 16, 1819 in Wesel , † April 13, 1894 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

Life

Josef Schex: Portrait of a lady by Eleonore Böcking , 1854, later the artist's wife
The lovers quarrel

Josef Schex, son of Adolph Schex, the latter a teacher from Wesel and until 1837 headmaster in Isselburg , and his wife Sabine, born. Herlitschka, at the age of 16, was accepted into the elementary class of Josef Wintergerst at the Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf in 1835 . In addition to the building class of Carl Schäffer in 1836, he became a student of Karl Ferdinand Sohn and trained as a history and genre painter .

In 1851 Schex emigrated to London after having been involved in the Schleswig uprising as a lieutenant in the von der Tann'schen Freicorps . In London, Schex socialized with other emigrants (among them Carl Schurz ) among the German merchants, among others. a. in the house of the merchant Leonhard Havenith , and lived from occasional portraits. For Ernst Bosch , whom he had introduced to painting technique and oil painting as a private student in 1850/51, he organized financial support from London for his studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In autumn 1852 he returned to Wesel, where Bosch worked for him again.

In July 1856, Schex married Leonhard Havenith's widow, Emilie Anna Maria Havenith (* 1817), who died in November 1857, and settled in Düsseldorf. There is evidence that he lived in Kaiserstraße in 1861 , and from 1865 on Rosenstraße 39, where the daughters of his first wife, who were married to the painters Karl Joseph Litschauer and Ernst Bosch , lived in the immediate vicinity at Rosenstraße 35 and 37 .

In 1854 he made a large-format oil painting showing a portrait of Eleonore Charlotte Dorothea Böcking (* 1827). The daughter of Adolf Carl Böcking (1799–1866) and Eleonore Wagner (1803–1834) from Trarbach had a long liaison with the painter Schex before she became his wife in 1868. After the death of her husband in 1894, she returned to her parents' house, Palais Böcking , where she died in 1911, very old and childless. Her portrait can still be seen today in the Middle Moselle Museum in the baroque villa Böcking.

As a member of the artists 'association Malkasten , Schex was in the "Festival Committee" in 1869 and was actively involved in the preparations for the "Semisäcular Celebration" at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, in particular in decorating the banquet in the Knights' Hall of the Tonhalle .

He received a medal at the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 . Schex was a member of the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , from 1870 a member of the city council, the General German Art Cooperative and the Association of Düsseldorf Artists for Mutual Support and Help and in 1873 co-founder of the artist widow's fund.

In 1894 the Städtische Galerie showed his artistic estate in the Düsseldorf art gallery. His portrait, a pencil drawing by Carl Maria Seyppel showing him at the age of 58, marked January 22, 1877 , is kept in the Düsseldorf City Museum.

Works (selection)

  • Portrait of Flora von Pommer-Esche , 1840; Illustration under five kings. Memories of Flora von Pommer-Esche , edited by her daughter Catherine von Pommer-Esche. Mittler and Son, Berlin 1910, after p. 44
  • Evening party at the Ebernburg , 1857
  • Coronation of poets Ulrich von Hutten (1860)
  • Cromwell has the crown back / Cromwell Refusing the Crown (1861)
  • Rescue on the St. Bernhard , acquired by the Kunstverein for the Braunschweig Museum in 1864 (Thieme-Becker)
  • Portrait of the writer Elise Polko, née Vogel , 1865; Reproduction: Copper engraving by L. Sichling after J. Schex, in: Musical fairy tales, fantasies and sketches by Elise Polko. 14th edition, by Joh. Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1873 (frontispiece).
  • Oliver Cromwell and his daughter Francisca Baroness Rich in front of the picture of Karl I Stuart, King of Great Britain and Ireland , who was beheaded in 1649 , 1865, Upper Austrian State Museum Linz
  • Cromwell urges Charles I to sign the terms of the army , 1867, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf
  • Gemsjäger on the lookout (1870)
  • Gypsy girl (1872)
  • Wesel is taken by surprise by the Dutch with the assistance of the Reformed citizens on August 19, 1629 and freed from the rule of the Spaniards (12 × 17 feet / approx. 375 × 525 cm): purchased by the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia as a gift to the city of Wesel , 1877 (Bötticher, Malerwerke); formerly in the town hall of Wesel; Burned in 1945. - Expulsion of the Spaniards from Wesel , (1878), in the Wesel town hall
  • Portrait Johann Wilhelm Lindlar

literature

  • Josef Schex. In: Hermann Alexander Müller (Ed.): Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 465 ( retrobibliothek.de ).
  • Personal news - Düsseldrof. In: Art for All. Painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture. 9th year, issue 16, May 15, 1894, p. 251 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
  • Schex, Josef. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, p. 550 ( archive.org ).
  • Schex, Josef . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 3rd, revised and updated edition up to the latest time. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1901, p. 251 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - Supplements).
  • Schex, Josef . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936.
  • Ernst Bosch: Memoirs. (1917). In: Heimatspiegel. Weekly supplement of the local newspaper. General report for Wesel, Rees district and Lower Rhine. Wesel 1952.
  • Cathedral calendar. Wesel 1960.
  • Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (ed.), Irene Markowitz (edit.): The Düsseldorf school of painting. Volume 2: Painting. Düsseldorf 1969.
  • Emanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume 9, 1976.
  • Siegfried Weiß : Ernst Bosch (1834–1917), life and work: on Düsseldorf painting of the 2nd half of the 19th century. Diss. Univ. Munich 1992.
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , pp. 197-198 (fig.).

Web links

Commons : Josef Schex  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Schex , at geneanet.org, accessed July 24, 2016
  2. ^ Anton Lohmann: Historical news about Isselburg, a review of the new building of the Catholic Church there. 1878, p. 64 ( uni-duesseldorf.de ).
  3. ↑ Josef Schex. In: Hermann Alexander Müller: Biographical Artist Lexicon. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig, 1882, p. 465 ( retrobibliothek.de ).
  4. ^ "Schex, Jos., Painter, Kaiserstr. 46 “ In: Address book from the government district of Düsseldorf. 1861.
  5. ^ "Schex, Maler, Rosenstrasse 39" In: Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf. July 1865, p. 46
  6. ↑ "Schex, Jos., Painter, Rosenstrasse 39" In: Address book of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf. 1875, p. 110.
  7. ↑ Baroque villa Böcking in Trarbach , on tegels-uit-rotterdam.com, accessed on July 24, 2016 (with history and illustration of the portrait of Eleonore Charlotte Dorothea Böcking).
  8. ↑ The Semisäcular celebration of the Royal Art Academy in Dusseldorf: The Artist Festival.
  9. ↑ The Semisäcular celebration of the Royal Art Academy in Dusseldorf: The preliminary celebration.
  10. ↑ The semisäcular celebration of the Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf: The festival dinner. P. 10.
  11. ↑ Member of the City Council Assembly, Department I: painter J. Schex, electoral period ended in 1876. In: Report on the status and administration of municipal affairs in the city for the years 1873 and 1874 ( uni-duesseldorf.de ).
  12. ^ Members of the General German Art Cooperative in 1890, Düsseldorf: Schex, Josef , on wladimir-aichelburg.at, accessed on July 24, 2016.
  13. ^ Karl Bone: Düsseldorf and its surroundings. Appendix: Short guide. 1890, p. 72 ( uni-duesseldorf.de ).
  14. ↑ Die Dioskuren , No. 5, 1860, p. 140 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
  15. ^ Walker Art Gallery. Illustration: Cromwell Refusing the Crown, Joseph Schex .
  16. ↑ German artist album 5. 1872 (I. Artistischer Part.), Illustration Gypsy girl. according to v. J. Schex ( uni-duesseldorf.de ).
  17. ^ Marianne Bernhard: Lost works of painting. Munich 1965, p. 179.
  18. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt: On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century Publishing of the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, 1902, p. 69 ( uni-duesseldorf.de ).
  19. ^ I. Portraits of the members: Portrait of JM Lindlar. In: Catalog for the anniversary exhibition of the "Malkasten" on the occasion of its 50th foundation festival on July 2nd and 3rd, 1898 in the Kunsthalle zu Düsseldorf ( uni-duesseldorf.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Schex, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schex, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1894
Place of death Dusseldorf