Lüder Arenhold (painter)

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Ferdinand Lüder Arenhold (born May 7, 1854 in Soltau , † June 16, 1915 in Kiel ) was a German marine painter who was best known for his reconstruction paintings and drawings of the Imperial Fleet and the Prussian Navy .

Life

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Arenhold probably joined the Imperial Navy at the beginning of the 1870s and left in 1881 as a lieutenant captain in the sea ​​defense to work as a painter. He had also visited South America and China during his service . In Hamburg he took three years lessons from the painters Heinrich Leitner and Franz Johann Wilhelm Hünten , from 1886 to 1887 he was a master student of Hans Fredrik Gude at the Berlin Academy .

From 1887 he lived in Kiel, where he also owned a sailing yacht and had already participated in the first Kiel Week in 1882 as a regatta sailor. He was a co-founder of the Marine Regatta Association , later the Imperial Yacht Club . Arenhold preferred oil painting ; His subjects were primarily ships of the Imperial Navy and historical fleets, whereby he attached great importance to attention to detail, especially in technical matters, but also did not neglect geographical details.

Arenhold was particularly interested in the prehistory of the Imperial Navy, including the imperial fleet . His representations are considered the first attempts to reconstruct the appearance of the units, of which often only rough representations existed.

Nothing is known about his private life. He died at the age of 61 where he lived in Kiel.

Awards

  • 1891: Silver medal at the war art exhibition in Cologne
  • 1896: Gold medal at the ship art exhibition in Kiel

Famous works

Full ship SMS Mercur of the Royal Prussian Navy around 1853. Painting or drawing by Lüder Arenhold around 1905
  • The German Reichsflotte 1849 in the roadstead of Bremerhaven (1902, Schönebeck Palace (Bremen) )
  • The battle near Eckernförde (1902, Eckernförde Town Hall)
  • The Prussian corvette " Amazone " (1908, Naval School Mürwik )
  • The Prussian corvette " Merkur " (1908, Naval School Mürwik)
  • The Prussian fleet off Rügen in 1854 (1901, private property)
  • The gunboat " Von der Tann " (1911, Kiel, Kunsthalle)
  • Fleet parade in front of Kaiser Wilhelm II on the Kiel Fjord (1889, Kiel, City and Maritime Museum)
  • The Danish warships "Christian VIII." and " Gefion " in battle with the coastal batteries off Eckernförde (1909, ibid.)
  • SMS Augusta in the Gironde estuary on 4.1.1871 (1900, Kiel, Förde-Klub)
  • Drawings for the yearbooks of the Imperial Yacht Club (Yacht Club)

Publications

  • The historical development of ship types , Kiel 1891
  • Reminder sheets for the Royal Prussian Navy 1848–1860 , Berlin 1904
  • 50 years ago - the German Reichsflotte 1848–1852 , Berlin 1906, reprint Berlin 1996, another reprint announced for October 2015

literature

  • J. Schlick: Arenhold, Lüder , in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. The visual artists of all times and peoples , vol. 5, Munich / Leipzig (KG Saur) 1992, p. 24.
  • Hans Jürgen Hansen: German marine painting , Oldenburg / Hamburg (Gerhard Stalling) 1977.
  • Boye Meyer-Friese: Marine painting in Germany in the 19th century , Oldenburg / Hamburg (Gerhard Stalling) 1981.
  • Lüder Arenhold in: Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society : Seventeenth Volume, Shipbuilding Society, Springer-Verlag, pp. 89–91 ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Lüder Arenhold  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Oskar Dressler : Dressler's Art Yearbook. Rostock. Volume 2, 1907, p. 14 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ The name and his place of birth suggest a relationship with Lüder Arenhold (bailiff) who worked in Soltau
personal data
SURNAME Arenhold, Lüder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arenhold, Ferdinand Lüder (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Soltau
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1915
Place of death Kiel