Lazarus Wihl

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Lazarus Wihl (* around 1824 in Wevelinghoven , Grevenbroich district ; † after 1868 ) was a German portrait and history painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Portrait of the writer Fanny Lewald , 1851

Lazarus Wihl was one of many children of the Wevelinghoven butcher, "Ellenwarenhändlers" and Jewish religion teacher Moshe ben Israel (from 1808 Moses Wihl, 1772–1842) and his wife Tiltz Salomon (Walburga Levenstein). One of his older brothers was the classical philologist, poet and publicist Ludwig Wihl , whose yearbook for art and poetry in 1843 also published poems by Lazarus Wihl and his brother David. At the age of 20, he began studying painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the same year . Rudolf Wiegmann and Karl Ferdinand Sohn were his teachers there until 1848 . During his studies in Düsseldorf, Wihl belonged to a politically active group of friends around Moritz Geisenheimer .

By 1849 at the latest he lived in Berlin , where Theodor Fontane called him in an exchange of letters with Wilhelm Wolfsohn because of the splendor of hair because of “wig-Wihl”. He made copies of old masters, and to secure his livelihood he also gave painting lessons. He shared a studio with the sculptor Hermann Heidel . In 1851 he painted a portrait of the writer Fanny Lewald there . He was living in Paris on October 10, 1857 at the latest when he patented children's toys in the office of the Département de la Seine . In 1861 he presented the study Tête de nègre (Negro head) in the Salon de Paris . In 1863 he exhibited a picture depicting a drumming dwarf at an exhibition of Jewish artists in Paris. In 1865 and 1866 he was represented in the salon with two portraits, and he exhibited portraits in the salons of 1867 and 1868.

Wihl was the teacher of the painter Modeste Amandine Pierrette Théodeline Lejault (1832–1898, stage name Anaïs Landelle or Anaïs Beauvais ). A portrait photo of Wihl, taken by Étienne Carjat , dates from the 1860s and is now in the holdings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Wihl (ed.): Yearbook for Art and Poetry. Born in 1843 . Verlag von W. Langenwiesche, Barmen 1843, pp. 419–426 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
  3. ↑ Arno Herzig : Political goals of Jewish intellectuals from the Rhineland and Westphalia in the Vormärz and in the revolution of 1848 . In: Walter Grab , Julius H. Schoeps : Jews in the Vormärz and in the Revolution of 1848 . Burg Verlag, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 978-3-9228-0161-0 , p. 283
  4. ↑ Heinz Kapp: Revolutionaries of Jewish origin in Europe 1848/49 . Konstanzer Schriften zur Schoah and Judaica, Volume 12, Hartung-Gorre Verlag, Konstanz 2006, ISBN 978-3-8662-8092-2 , p. 492
  5. ↑ Christa Schultze (ed.): Theodor Fontane's correspondence with Wilhelm Wolfsohn . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3-3510-1184-0 , p. 115
  6. ↑ Letters No. 429, 433, 435, 492 and 493 from Fanny Lewald
  7. ^ Bulletin de lois de l'Empire français . Paris 1860, XI. Episode, Volume 14, p. 281, No. 787 ( Google Books )
  8. ^ Entry Wilh (Lazarus), Quest 72 . In: Annuaire-almanach du commerce, de l'industie, de la magistrature et de l'administration . Didot-Bottin, 65th year, Paris 1862, p. 996 ( digitized )
  9. ^ Salon de 1861. Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants, exposés au Palais des Champs-Élysées le May 1, 1861 . Paris 1861, p. 380, No. 3118 ( Google Books )
  10. ↑ Ludwig Philippson (ed.): Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums . Volume 27, Issue No. 27 (June 30, 1863), p. 418 ( Google Books )
  11. ↑ L'Univers Israelité. Journal des Principes conserateurs de Judaïsme . Volume 18, No. 10, June 1863, p. 437 ( Google Books )
  12. ↑ Ministère de la maison de l'Empereur et des beaux-arts: Salon de 1865. Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants, exposés au Palais des Champs-Élysées le 1st May 1865 . Paris 1865, p. 290 ( digitized version )
  13. ^ Explication des ouvrages de peinture exposés au Palais des Champs-Élysées le May 1, 1866 , nos. 1976 and 1977. In: Horst W. Janson : Catalogs of the Paris Salon 1673 to 1888 . New York / London 1977
  14. ↑ Ministère de la maison de l'Empereur et des beaux-arts: Salon de 1868. 86e exposition officielle depuis l'année 1673. Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants exposés au Palais des Champs- Élysées le 1st May 1868 . Paris 1868, p. 320, No. 2565 ( Google Books )
  15. ↑ Les peintres de la famille Proust (2): Anaïs Beauvais (1832–1898) , website in the portal lefondeproust.fr , accessed on December 26, 2018
  16. ↑ Ministère des beaux-arts: Salon de 1870. 88e exposition officielle depuis l'année 1673. Explication des ouvrages, de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants exposés au Palais de Champs-Élysées le May 1, 1870 . Paris 1870, p. 22 ( Google Books )
  17. ↑ Lazarus Wihl , data sheet in the metmuseum.org portal ( Metropolitan Museum of Art )
personal data
SURNAME Wihl, Lazarus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter and history painter of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH around 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Wevelinghoven , Grevenbroich district
DATE OF DEATH after 1866