Louis Gurlitt

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Louis Gurlitt: Mountain landscape around Dorf Tirol , 1838
Louis Gurlitt: Norwegian Waterfall , 1835 ( Museumsberg Flensburg )

Heinrich Louis Theodor Gurlitt , also Ludwig Gurlitt (born March 8, 1812 in Altona , † September 19, 1897 in Naundorf ) was a German landscape painter from the Hamburg School .

Life

Louis Gurlitt was born in Altona, which was under Danish administration at the time, as the son of master gold wire drawer and later factory owners Johann August Wilhelm Gurlitt (1774–1855) and Helene Eberstein (1784–1855). Together with 17 siblings, he grew up in poor conditions. Known as a model student in his school days, his talent for drawing was discovered and promoted early on. He received his first training around 1826 from Anton Carl Dusch (1760–1829) and Günther Gensler (1803–1884), a family friend who portrayed his parents in Hamburg. From 1828 to 1832 he was a student and assistant to Siegfried Detlev Bendixen , in the period after that (1832–1834) he was a student at the Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen, where he developed his passion for landscape painting with Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg and Johann Ludwig Lund . In 1837 he married the Dane Elise Saxild, who died in 1839. In 1842 he moved to Düsseldorf , where he met established artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting, such as Andreas Achenbach and Carl Ferdinand Sohn . He later went on numerous study trips to almost all European countries. From the beginning of 1844 to the autumn of 1846 he lived in Rome , where he became a member of the German Art Association . On July 5, 1844, his second wife Julie, born Bürger (* 1823), who was only married in 1843, died there of typhus and was buried on Campo Santo Teutonico .

From 1851 Gurlitt lived in Vienna , where he regularly took part in exhibitions of the Vienna Art Association founded in 1830 and was listed as a local artist . In 1855 he was President of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . On the advice of artist friends and at the invitation of Duke Ernst II of Gotha, Gurlitt moved to the Thuringian royal seat of Gotha in March 1860 , where he set up a studio in Mönchhof Castle . The writer Gustav Freytag , with whom Gurlitt was friends, also lived here. Gurlitt spent fourteen creative years in Gotha, was highly valued and adored. After further stops in Dresden and Plauen, the artist moved his main residence to Steglitz near Berlin.

His family happiness was initially overshadowed by the early death of his first two wives. In his third marriage he was married to Elisabeth Lewald (1823-1909), the sister of Fanny Lewald , one of the most important German writers of the Vormärz . The marriage in Berlin in mid-1847 resulted in seven children. A few days after his golden wedding anniversary, Gurlitt died at his summer residence in Naundorf. His sons were u. a. the architectural historian Cornelius Gurlitt , the art dealer Fritz Gurlitt , the pedagogue Ludwig Gurlitt and the classical archaeologist Wilhelm Gurlitt (son of his second wife Julie, nee Bürger). His grandchildren were the art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt , the musicologist Willibald Gurlitt and the painter Cornelia Gurlitt (1890–1919). The watchmaker and writer Emanuel Gurlitt and the composer Cornelius Gurlitt were his brothers. The Hamburg painter and lithographer Eugen Krüger was a nephew and student .

See also

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Derelict house, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Louis Gurlitt  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gurlitt, Louis. In: Franklin Kopitzsch , Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . Lexicon of persons. Volume 2. Wallstein, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , p. 163 in the Google book search.
  2. ↑ Die Genseler (PDF; 11.9 MB), p. 9. (footnote), ebooks
  3. ↑ Louis Gurlitt ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Biography in the portal kettererkunst.de , accessed on July 24, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kettererkunst.de
  4. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 226
  5. ^ Wiener Nachrichten. (...) At this month's exhibition (...). In:  Local newspaper of the Wiener Zeitung, supplement to the Oesterreichisch-Kaiserliche Wiener Zeitung , No. 79/1853, April 2, 1853, p. 306, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  6. ^ Family News. (...) Trusted. In:  Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 190/1847, July 9, 1847, p. 1688, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dea.
  7. ↑ Louis Gurlitt, Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Bärbel Hedinger , Louis Gurlitt, 1812-1897: Portraits of European landscapes in paintings and drawings , 1997, p. 97

Remarks

  1. ↑ Gurlitt Alois, landscape painter, was registered as resident at the address Vienna- Leopoldstadt , Große Stadtgutgasse 396 (later: 44; today: about Heinestraße 30/32) until 1859 . - See: Adolph Lehmann ’s general housing indicator . Born in 1859, part A, p. 255 middle .
personal data
SURNAME Gurlitt, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gurlitt, Heinrich Louis Theodor (full name); Gurlitt, Ludwig; School, hamburgers
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter from the Hamburg School
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1897
Place of death Naundorf