Joseph Settegast
Joseph Anton Nikolaus Settegast (born February 8, 1813 in Koblenz , † March 19, 1890 in Mainz ) was a German portrait , history and church painter .
Life
Joseph Settegast received his first training at the Düsseldorf Art Academy between 1829 and 1831 . Unsatisfied with the conditions in Düsseldorf, however, he switched to Philipp Veit at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main , where he stayed until 1838. During this time altar, devotional and family pictures were created. In 1835 he painted - together with his fellow student Johann Franz Brentano - the altarpiece designed by Veit in the church of St. Peter and Paul in Camberg im Taunus .
He used his stay in Italy from 1838 to 1843 for several study trips. He lived in Rome from mid-October 1838 to early May 1843 . There he became a member of the "Composing Association" of the Nazarenes . In 1841 and 1842 he took part in the “Cervaro festivities” of the Ponte Molle Society , and in 1841 as “Wolkenschieber”.
After his return, Settegast lived in Frankfurt am Main until 1849, where he married Dorothea (1822–1897), the daughter of his teacher Philipp Veit, in 1844. The marriage resulted in nine children.
In 1850 the family moved to Koblenz and in 1860 to Mainz. Settegast received commissioned work for churches ( Maxkirche in Düsseldorf , St. Kastor in Koblenz, St. Lubentius in Kobern-Gondorf , Mainz Cathedral , St. Aegidii in Münster and others), devotional pictures and portraits . For the Association for the Dissemination of Religious Images , he designed widespread images of saints . Settegast remained shaped by Nazarism throughout his life, put his art in the service of the Catholic Church and gained a reputation as a church painter beyond Germany.
literature
- Karl Georg Bockenheimer : Settegast, Joseph Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 48.
- Settegast, Joseph . 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, p. 537 .
- Clemens-Sels-Museum (ed.): Joseph Anton Nikolaus Settegast 1813–1890. Retrospective on the 100th anniversary of the death of a late Nazarene. Neuss 1990.
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph Settegast in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jutta Assel: Joseph Anton Nikolaus Settegast's Italian journey. With excerpts from his diaries and letters
Individual evidence
- ^ Pia Müller-Tamm : Nazarenic drawing art . In: The drawings and watercolors of the 19th century at the Kunsthalle Mannheim , 2018, Volume 4, p. 197
- ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 554
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Settegast, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Settegast, Joseph Anton Nikolaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German church painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koblenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1890 |
| Place of death | Mainz |