Julius Fürst (painter)
Julius Fürst (born April 4, 1861 in Dänischenhagen , † March 18, 1938 in Kiel ) was a German painter, draftsman and graphic artist.
Life
Fürst began his art studies with the sculptor and medalist Engelbert Pfeiffer in Hamburg . From 1882 to 1886 he studied at the Berlin Art Academy . In 1888 he continued his studies with Otto Seitz in Munich . From 1892 he lived in Kiel. In 1894 he was a founding member of the Schleswig-Holstein Art Cooperative . 1903–1920 he was chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Art Association .
He made a name for himself above all with genre pictures and portraits, often as copies of older works. An oil painting by the leading Berlin salon lady Princess Henriette of Schleswig-Holstein became particularly well known . Julius Fürst often took part in exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace . In 1893 and 1914 he sent the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . For the town hall in Kiel he created portraits of the writer Klaus Groth and the privy councilor Friedrich von Esmarch . He provided the book about the Schleswig-Holstein national anthem Schleswig-Holstein sea-wrapped with his illustrations.
The Julius-Fürst-Weg commemorates him in Kiel.
literature
- Prince, Julius . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 562 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Kiel artist. Volume 2: Artistic Life in the Imperial Era, 1871–1918. Boyens, Heide 2016, ISBN 978-3-8042-1442-2 , pp. 293-300.
- Telse Wolf-Timm: The portraits of the sick by Johann Heinrich Wittmaack and Julius Fürst. In: Jörg Henning Wolf, Hans-Helfrich Petersen (Ed.): Diseases of the face in artistic illustrations of the 19th century. Neumünster 1994.
Web links
- Index entry for Julius Fürst in the database of the German biography
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Prince, Julius |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist, illustrator |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1861 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dänischenhagen |
DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1938 |
Place of death | Kiel |