Josef Wintergerst

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Friedrich Overbeck : Portrait of Josef Wintergerst in the possession of the Kunsthalle Hamburg

Josef Wintergerst , also Joseph Wintergerst (born October 3, 1783 in Wallerstein ; † January 25, 1867 in Düsseldorf ), was a German Romantic painter who , as a member of the St. Luke League, belonged to the closest circle of the Nazarenes in Rome.

Life

Supply to Hagar , 1809, Alte Nationalgalerie , Berlin

Josef Wintergerst was a son of the painter Anton Wintergerst (1737-1805) and his second wife Maria Barbara Bux († 1833), daughter of the faience manufacturer Johann Baptist Bux († 1800) in Schrezheim . He received his training from 1804 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . As a co-founder of the Lukasbund, he belonged to the circle of Friedrich Overbeck and Franz Pforr as early as 1809 and went with them to Rome in 1811, where he became a member of the artistic community in the Sant'Isidoro monastery .

After the death of his close friend Pforr (June 1812) he left Rome in February 1813 together with Christian Xeller and was initially a drawing teacher at the canton school in Aarau , and from 1815 drawing teacher at the grammar school in Ellwangen . In 1822 his friend and acting director of the academy, Peter von Cornelius , got him a job as elementary drawing teacher at the Düsseldorf Academy , where in 1824 - as the successor to Lambert Cornelius - he also became an inspector and from then on gave drawing lessons at the Royal High School in addition to this profession .

Friedrich Overbeck had praised Wintergerst and his talent in a letter to August Kestner in 1809 and classified him as “a German Michel Angelo”, “when luck is favorable to him.” Wintergerst did not develop this artistic development through life fate, and his patron von Cornelius judged him 1821 about him: "... a man who did not succeed in striving for higher art ..."

One of Wintergerst's sister, Maria Barbara Wintergerst , was his student and later also taught as a drawing teacher.

Works (selection)

Reconciliation between Ludwig the Bavarian and Frederick the Fair , 1816
Parting of the knighthood , 1818

literature

Web links

Commons : Josef Wintergerst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the ADB, according to CG Heise in Schrezheim , Thieme-Becker refers to both opinions.
  2. ↑ Wintergerst, Anton . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 82 .
  3. ↑ Family tree of the Bux and Wintergerst families . In: Gustav E. Pazaurek: Schrezheimer Fayencen . In: Communications from the Württemberg Arts and Crafts Association . 1908/1909, issue 1, p. 185 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 650
  5. ^ A b Carl Georg Heise: Josef Wintergerst von Wallerstein: a forgotten romantic. In: The car . 1932, p. 52.
personal data
SURNAME Winter barley, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romantic painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallerstein or Schrezheim
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1867
Place of death Dusseldorf