Julius Scholtz

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Medallion on the grave of Julius Scholtz, Trinitatisfriedhof, Dresden
Julius Scholtz
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Grave of Gottfried Julius Scholtz in the Trinitatisfriedhof in Dresden.

Julius Scholtz (born February 12, 1825 in Breslau , † May 2, 1893 in Dresden ; full name: Gottfried Julius Scholtz ) was a German history and portrait painter.

life and work

On the advice of the Breslau curator of the König Gemäldegalerie, Scholtz studied at the Dresden Art Academy with Julius Hübner . The first picture of The Landlady's Daughter , with which he was applauded by contemporaries, was shown at the Dresden academic exhibition in 1858. For his work The Last Supper of Generals Wallenstein's , completed in 1862 , he received the prize advertised by the Association for Historical Art. The next larger picture, which Scholtz created in 1869, represented the moment in which King Johann and the Saxon general staff crossed the Saxon border in 1866 and it became the property of the King of Saxony. In the same year, the volunteers were drafted by Friedrich Wilhelm III. at Breslau, perhaps the most important historical oil painting by the artist. These pictures are characterized by a fresh characteristic and effective treatment.

Between 1863 and 1867 Julius Scholtz painted life-size portraits for the Dresden citizen-baron and banker Hermann Christian von Kap-herr. Six of these pictures were mainly taken in St. Petersburg , where Cape Lord's family lived at the time. At the invitation of the wealthy client, Scholtz went to the Russian capital in 1867 and mastered the gigantic work in half a year, “without even indulging in a bit of leisure to take a closer look at the Russian residence”, as his brief life report says.

After 1870, Scholtz received honorable offers to take over a professorship from Kassel, Königsberg and Weimar. The academies in Berlin and Munich made him a member. This may well have moved the Dresden administration to offer Scholtz an academic teaching post. But Academic Council did not envisage the brilliant painter for the history painting studio, which had been vacant since Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld's departure in 1871, but instead put him in the plaster drawing room as the third teacher.

In 1873, as the coronation and completion of the restoration of the Meißner Albrechtsburg, which began in 1859, its painting began. Julius Scholtz was one of the eleven Dresden artists who were called upon to undertake the monumental task, whose rank as history painter was now remembered again. In 1875 he began the preparatory work and did not complete his work, nine wall paintings in wax colors , until the mid-1880s. “They reproduce scenes from the life of Albrecht the Courageous and stand out against the other historical pictures with which other Dresden painters have adorned the halls and apartments of the restored Albrechtsburg, through clever use of the space, through an extremely brisk, very personal technique rare understanding of painterly effects, although a stricter historical conception due to the tendency towards a more genre-like treatment of historical processes does not quite come into its own. ”( HA Lier. )

As a result of these achievements, which caused a sensation in painting circles, Scholtz received various commissions to take part in external murals, but had no luck with his designs and he hardly found the time to do so. As a portrait painter he was overwhelmed with commissions and in 1874 Scholtz was appointed professor at the Dresden Art Academy, which had previously made him an honorary member.

During the three decades after 1855, the artist also worked as an illustrator , primarily for books for young people. The colored lithographs with realistic, unsentimental descriptions of bourgeois family life represent a peculiar, little-known achievement within contemporary book art and are evidence of a very personal, intimate genre art.

One of his studio was located at Sidonienstraße 16, III. Floor. He himself lived at Wiener Strasse 1, later at number 47.

Gottfried Julius Scholtz died in Dresden in 1893, his grave is in the Trinity Cemetery in Dresden-Johannstadt. In the year of his death, the National Gallery in Berlin held a special exhibition of his works, which was characterized by its unusual completeness.

In his honor, the Julius-Scholtz Street named in Dresden.

His son Walther Scholtz also became a painter.

Works

literature

  • Hermann Arthur Lier:  Scholtz, Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, p. 152 f.
  • Heike Biedermann: Julius Scholtz (1825–1893): Exhibition of the New Masters Picture Gallery in the Albertinum from July 10 to November 9, 1999. In: Dresdener Kunstblätter. 43, 1999, pp. 150-157.
  • Hans-Joachim Neidhardt: Julius Scholtz and the problem of the painterly in Dresden painting of the 19th century. In: Scientific journal of the Karl-Marx-Univ. Leipzig. Social and linguistic science Line. 12, 2, 1963, pp. 364-372.
  • Robert Becker: Julius Scholtz and the exhibition of drawings and studies from his estate in the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts . Korn, Breslau 1912.

Web links

Commons : Julius Scholtz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biography, Julius Scholtz
  2. ^ Housing and business handbook of the Kgl. Residence and capital, 1892
  3. ↑ Dresdner Geschichtsblätter, Volume 1, No. 1/5, 1892/1896, p. 88 in the SLUB Dresden
personal data
SURNAME Scholtz, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scholtz, Gottfried Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1893
Place of death Dresden