Julius Geertz
Julius Geertz (born April 21, 1837 in Hamburg , † October 21, 1902 in Braunschweig ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Geertz began his artistic studies under the brothers Günther and Martin Gensler , then worked for some time as a private student of the former and later went to Karlsruhe , where Adolf des Coudres became his teacher. In 1860 he came to Düsseldorf , entered the studio of Rudolf Jordan and in 1864 went to Paris , where he studied the works of old masters, and from there to Brittany and Holland . He also worked several times in the United States ( New York City ) for commissions in the 1890s .
He settled in Düsseldorf, where he painted partly serious, partly humorous genre pictures from popular life and the goings-on of the youth, from which Der Verbrecher established his reputation after the conviction . Geertz was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . From 1898 he lived in Braunschweig.
His son Henry Ludwig Geertz , born in Düsseldorf in 1872, also studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1888 , including with Peter Janssen the Elder , and from 1893 in the painting class of Julius Roeting and Eduard von Gebhardt . A private student of Geertz was the Swiss animal painter Eduard Ortgies .
Works (selection)
- Confused and surrendered
- Two cheerful pictures of children
- Consequences of the school residue
- The flycatcher
- The village school
- Watch on the Rhine
- Prisoners of war
- The girl with the bird's nest
- The begging penny
literature
- Geeertz, Julius . In: Ernst Rump : Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area , Otto Bröcker & Co., Hamburg 1912, p. 43 ( digitized version )
- Carl Georg Heise : Geertz, Julius . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 331 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Maike Bruhns : Geertz, Julius . In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary. Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 142
- Gitta Ho: Geertz, Julius. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin and Boston 2015.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 207
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geertz, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1902 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |