Julius Hübner (painter, 1806)

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Self-portrait of Julius Huebner from 1859

Rudolf Julius Benno Huebner , also Julius Huebner the Elder (born January 27, 1806 in Oels , province of Silesia , † November 7, 1882 in Loschwitz near Dresden), was a German painter and gallery director as well as poet and translator.

Life

The Bendemann family and their friends , joint work by Eduard Bendemann , Theodor Hildebrandt , Julius Hübner, Wilhelm Schadow and Karl Ferdinand Sohn , 1830/1831: Hübner (in the so-called "Schadow Circle", bottom right) looks at the viewer.

Hübner was friends with Wilhelm Wackernagel and had attended the Art Academy in Berlin since 1821 , became a pupil of Wilhelm Schadow in 1823 and followed him to Düsseldorf in 1826 , where he belonged to his close circle in terms of both family and artistry. From 1829 to 1831 he stayed with friends in Rome , and from 1831 to 1833 in Berlin . From 1833 to 1837/1838 he was a member of Schadow's master class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Under Schadow, Hübner developed a "tendency towards the academic" which made him "one of the most striking representatives of the Düsseldorf school of painting ".

In 1828 he became known for his painting Die Fischer after Goethe's Ballade , in which "I particularly liked the beauty of the forms and the expression". At the same time, the picture Roland, the Princess Isabella freed from the robber's den (The raging Roland) , after which Joseph von Keller made an engraving. During his stay in Italy (1829–1831) he painted Ruth , accompanying her mother-in-law Naomi abroad (1831, Berlin National Gallery ). Simson was created for the Berliner Kunstverein in 1832 , tearing down the columns .

In 1833 he was back in Düsseldorf, where in 1834 Amalie Bensinger (1809–1889) was one of his students. In the years 1836/1837 he created an altarpiece for the Andreas Church in Düsseldorf that shows Christ on the scourge column . He was initially criticized because of the "naked portrayal of the suffering Savior" which was felt to be offensive at the time. In 1839 he was appointed to the art academy in Dresden . Since 1841 professor at the same, he developed an extensive teaching activity. In 1845 he was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Meissen . In 1871 he became director of the Dresden Royal Picture Gallery (today: Picture Gallery Old Masters and Gallery New Masters ). He died of pleurisy on November 7, 1882 in Loschwitz near Dresden, after he had recently retired. He was buried in the Trinity cemetery; the grave has not been preserved.

family

Portrait of Pauline Huebner , the artist's wife, 1829, Alte Nationalgalerie , Berlin

Julius Hübner was married to Pauline Charlotte Bendemann , a sister of the painter Eduard Bendemann . The couple had eight children:

  • Emma Hübner (1830–1844)
  • Paul Huebner (1831-1833)
  • Emil Hübner (1834–1901), philologist and epigraphist, married to Marie Droysen (1839–1896), a daughter of the historian Johann Gustav Droysen
  • Fanny Hübner (1835–1875)
  • Hans Hübner (1837–1884), professor of chemistry in Göttingen
  • Franz Huebner (1840-1891), Lieutenant Colonel
  • Eduard Hübner (1842–1924), painter
  • Martin Huebner (1846–1908), banker

Works (selection)

Some of his works from the Düsseldorf period include:

For the Kaisersaal in Frankfurt's Römer, he painted Friedrich III. , a Christ for the town church in Meißen , a large altarpiece for the market church in Halle : See the lilies in the field after the Sermon on the Mount.

Made in Dresden:

  • The golden age (Dresden gallery (loss of war), a repetition in the Berlin National Gallery - rediscovered in 2009 in the Museum of Simferopol )
  • a large picture from the Apocalypse: the whore Babylon on the seven-headed dragon on clouds, while the angel of the Lord interprets the vision to the evangelist (1852, Petersburg)
  • Charles V in San Yuste
  • Friedrich's last days in Sanssouci
  • Cupid in winter
  • Magdalena before the body of Christ
  • The twelve year old Christ in the temple
  • The disputation of Luther and Eck (1866, former State Picture Gallery Dresden, destroyed in 1945)
  • Luther proposes the theses (1878, Lutherhaus Wittenberg )

Illustrations (selection)

Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf :

  • In: ABC book for small and large children / drawn by Dresden artists. With stories and songs by R. Reinick and songs by Ferdinand Hiller. Leipzig: Wigand, 1845. - Digitized edition
  • In: Reinick, Robert. Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. between 1836 and 1852.
    • Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. Düsseldorf: Schulgen-Bettendorff, 1836, test print. Digitized edition
    • Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. Düsseldorf: Schulgen-Bettendorff, 1838, colored portfolio edition. Digitized edition
    • Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. Düsseldorf: Schulgen-Bettendorff, 1838. Digitized edition
    • Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. Düsseldorf: Buddeus, between 1839 and 1846. Digitized edition
    • Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. Leipzig: Vogel, approx. 1852. Digitized edition
  • In: The Nibelungs. Translated into prose, introduced and explained by Johannes Scherr. Leipzig: Wigand, 1860. Digitized edition
  • In: The Nibelunge Song. Copy of the handwriting of Baron Joseph von Laßberg. Leipzig: Wigand, 1840. Digitized edition
  • In: The Nibelungenlied. With woodcuts based on original drawings by Eduard Bendemann and Julius Hübner. Leipzig: Wigand, 1840. Digitized edition
  • Schadow and his school: Speech . Bonn: Cohen, 1869. Digitized edition

Poems and post-poems

  • Chiaroscuro. From the poetic diary of a painter. Sonnets and songs by Julius Hübner. George Westermann, Braunschweig 1871 ( digitized from Google Books )
  • Chiaroscuro. From the poetic diary of a painter. Sonnets and songs by Julius Hübner. Second episode. Theodor Meinhold, Dresden 1876 ( digitized from Google Books)
  • One hundred selected sonnets by Francesco Petrarka, translated by Julius Hübner. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1868 (bilingual edition; digitized in the Internet Archive )

literature

  • Hermann Arthur Lier :  Huebner, Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 774-777.
  • Elias H. Füllenbach: St. Andreas in Düsseldorf's old town . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): Places of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Traces of the artists in Düsseldorf . Rheinische Kunststätten 528, Cologne 2011, pp. 68–69.
  • Katharina Wippermann: Julius Hübner's "Ruth and Naemi" as an interdenominational program image . In: Yearbook of the Berlin Museums, NF 50.2008 (2009), pp. 155–163
  • Elisabeth Hipp: Julius Hübner's catalog of the picture gallery in the Semperbau from 1856 . In: Dresdener Kunstblätter, 49.2005,4, pp. 229–234
  • Birgid Monschau-Schmittmann: Julius Hübner (1806-1882). Life and work of a late Romantic painter . Münster [u. a.]: LIT, 1993. - VIII, 315 pp.
  • Konrad Renger: "Because I'm a painter, I shouldn't write poetry ...": to Julius Hübner as a book illustrator and poet . In: De arte et libis, Festschrift Erasmus 1934–1984 / (editor: Abraham Horodisch). - Amsterdam: Erasmus, 1984, pp. 369-386
  • Karl Koetschau: Early portraits of Julius Huebner . Düsseldorf: Schwann, [1925]. - 16 p .: with plate.
  • Hans Mackowsky: Julius Hübner 1806–1882. Exhibition in the National Gallery. December 1925 - January 1926 . Berlin: Boll, 1925. - 30 pages .: with ill.

Web links

Commons : Julius Hübner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Julius Hübner  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Jünger: Wilhelm Wackernagel as a poet
  2. ^ Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 347
personal data
SURNAME Huebner, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hübner, Rudolf Julius Benno (full name); Huebner, Julius the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and gallery director
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Oels , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1882
Place of death Loschwitz near Dresden