Ludwig Emil Grimm

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Self-Portrait (1813)
Double portrait Brothers Grimm (1843)
Dorothea Viehmann (1819)
Arrival in Heilbronn

Ludwig Emil Grimm (born March 14, 1790 in Hanau , † April 4, 1863 in Kassel ) was a German painter ( professor ), etcher and engraver . He was the youngest brother of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm .

Life

childhood and education

As a child, Ludwig Emil Grimm was enthusiastic about nature at an early age and writes in the memoirs from my life published by Stoll in 1911 : "That was a wonderful time, as we swarmed around in the lonely forest, where it was so lonely and quiet!" 1803 until 1805 Grimm attended the Lyceum Fridericianum in Kassel, then he studied at the academy in Kassel with Johann Gottlieb Kobold , and finally switched to Andreas Range . In addition, he received private drawing lessons from gallery inspector Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Robert .

In 1807 he made the acquaintance of Clemens Brentano and Bettina von Arnim , Friedrich Carl von Savigny , Achim von Arnim and Werner Henschel . From 1808 Grimm carried out occasional commissioned work for Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim. (Cover picture and illustrations for Vol. III Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Kinderlieder, Zeitung für Einsiedler; Goldfaden ). In 1808 followed a stay of several months in Heidelberg with Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim. In Heidelberg he made the acquaintance of Joseph Görres . In the same year Grimm lived in Landshut with Brentano's brother-in-law Carl von Savigny .

After a short period of teaching in Heidelberg with Professor Weise, in which, according to his own statements, he learned little, he came to Munich around 1808 to see the engraver Carl Ernst Christoph Hess , “under whose direction he soon did a great job with the etching needle and later also with the burin ; but later he preferred the etching needle and only connected the cold needle with the former where strength and harmony were required ”.

From 1809 to 1814 Ludwig Emil Grimm studied at the newly founded Art Academy in Munich . The course was financed by Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm , Clemens Brentano and Friedrich Carl von Savigny. Grimm specialized in etchings with z. T. independent technical inventions. At the same time he studied painting in Andreas Seidl's class . Nevertheless, he learned the technique of painting, which was his actual career aspiration, largely self-taught. An etched portrait of Bettina Brentano from 1809 was widely recognized by Johann Wolfgang Goethe . In 1810 Grimm traveled with Friedrich Carl von Savigny to Salzburg , Berchtesgaden and the Chiemsee . In 1812 he traveled again to southern Germany.

French campaign and electoral scholarship

From 1814 to 1815 he took part in the French campaign as a lieutenant in the 3rd Hessian Landwehr Regiment. In 1815 he received a scholarship from the Hessian elector Wilhelm I in the amount of 150 thalers and from his wife, Electress Wilhelmine Caroline in the amount of 600 thalers for further studies in Munich. On November 5, 1815, he met Johann Wolfgang Goethe in Frankfurt am Main . Goethe praised Grimm's sketchbooks and drawings. In the same year Grimm went on a trip to the Rhine . He met Joseph Görres again in Koblenz and visited the Boisserée art collection in Heidelberg . He then returned to Munich and resumed his studies. The first series of etchings was published by Artaria in Mannheim . In March 1816 he made the acquaintance of Carl Philipp Fohr and Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl . He then went on an almost three-month trip to Italy accompanied by Georg Brentano and Christian Erdmann Gottlieb Prestel . He stayed in Rome from mid-June to late July 1816. It was there that his portrait of the painter Friedrich Müller was created . In Italy he also met Peter von Cornelius , Friedrich Overbeck , Joseph Anton Koch , Bertel Thorvaldsen , Samuel Rösel and others. a. During his trip to Italy he created over fifty travel sketches, which were also etched. Grimm began his return journey via Switzerland. He returned to Munich and lived there until September 1817. In 1817 Grimm moved to Kassel. In September 1817 Grimm visited the von Haxthausen families in Bökendorf and Count Bocholtz-Asseburg on the Hinnenburg near Brakel . Further visits followed between 1821 and 1827 at Haxthausen and Bocholtz-Asseburg. With Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern , he founded the Willingshausen painters' colony in Willingshausen in 1825 . In 1828 Grimm took part in the Dürer Festival in Nuremberg while he was in the city from April 5 to April 22. He also documented the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of Dürer's death with an etching, the 'morning celebration at Dürer's grave' and a description in his memoirs.

Professor and teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts

In 1832 he got the long-awaited position as professor and teacher of the historical painting class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel. In 1835 Grimm was a co-founder of the Art Association for Kurhessen in Kassel. In 1837 Grimm traveled to Munich and met Heinrich Maria von Hess , Moritz von Schwind , Friedrich Olivier and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld . In 1843 Grimm went to Berlin to his brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. In Berlin he met Bettina von Arnim, Peter von Cornelius, Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Christian Daniel Rauch , Karl Herman , Carl Joseph Begas and Adolph von Menzel . His onward journey took him to Dresden and Teplitz . In 1850 he again took a trip to southern Germany. He made a travelogue about this trip to southern Germany with drawings on a roll of pictures about nine meters long. In 1851 he visited Berlin and in 1852 Hanover and again Berlin.

Private

In 1829 Ludwig Emil Grimm got engaged to the 26-year-old Marie Böttner, the daughter of the academy professor Wilhelm Böttner , whom he married in 1832. One year later his daughter Friederike, also known as "Ideken", was born. He lived as a freelance artist in Kassel until 1832. After Marie died in 1842, he married the daughter of the theologian and general superintendent Christoph Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst , Friederike , in 1844 .

The last few years in Kassel

Honorary grave in the main cemetery in Kassel

Ludwig Emil Grimm began his last work in 1860, until health problems made drawing and caricaturing impossible for him. On April 4, 1863 he died of pneumonia.

Graphic work

Grimm he is one of the most important German draftsmen and etchers of the 19th century. His artistic activity initially consisted mainly of drawing, etching and copying paintings from the courtyard gallery. Later Grimm etched his own compositions, landscapes, animals, preferably portraits. His treatment of the needle is free, the objects are consistently pure, delicate, and at times carried out to perfection. In 1818 he self-published a portfolio entitled “Etched leaves after nature”, which for the most part contained etchings from his trip to Italy. Thanks to the connections of his brothers to the academic circles in Göttingen, the youngest Grimm created the first series of commissioned portraits of scholars, professors and doctors in 1823; the second followed in 1826. Herman Grimm sees in these works the impetus for further commissions of this kind. Ludwig later also portrayed the poet Heinrich Heine and the violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini .

Most famous are the portraits of his brothers Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob Grimm , and the drawing of the "fairy woman" Dorothea Viehmann from 1814, from he made in 1819 and an etching that on the cover of the second edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales published has been. Several studies that have been preserved show the development from drawing to the finished etching. In this edition, his first picture for a fairy tale by the Grimms, the title copper for little brother and sister, appeared . Thus, the young Grimmbruder played a major role in shaping the “children's and house fairy tales”, which are still among the most popular and most-read books worldwide.

After being employed at the Kassel Academy, Grimm's artistic life was rather calm and he mainly worked on refining his technique. In 1840 he published a collection of etched sheets containing historical representations, genre pictures, heads, portraits and landscapes with the title page : Die Märchenerzählerin . On a trip to Steinau an der Strasse and Nuremberg in 1850 , on which he was accompanied by his family, a portfolio of 83 pen drawings was created as a travel diary. In 1854 thirty more sheets followed as a supplement to the etching collection from 1840. In 2017, etchings by Ludwig Emil Grimm were exhibited during “ documenta 14 ” in the Kassel Neue Galerie .

Picturesque oeuvre

Ludwig Emil Grimm's oeuvre consists of around sixty oil paintings. The oil portrait of Meline von Guaita was widely recognized. In 1821 he completed the painting Holy Family and in 1825 the painting Mary with a sleeping child and saints . In 1841 he painted The Moorish Baptism . The painting was exhibited at "documenta 14". Grimm created historical pictures with Christian themes, such as depictions of the Madonna, scenes from legends of saints and historical depictions. The painting Madonna in a Landscape with St. Joseph, St. George and St. Augustine , which he painted after a trip to Italy, is well known. In the artist portraits there are influences of the Romantics ; in other works, however, the influence of his friends Nazarenes and their return to Raphael and Dürer . The extensive and varied work can thus be paraphrased from realistic to at times with idealizing and romantic features. But there are also typical elements of the Biedermeier era , both in terms of content and composition.

student

List of descendants of the Grimm family

Heinrich Grimm (* December 12, 1637 in Bergen-Enkheim ; † September 11, 1713 in Dörnigheim ) ∞ June 2, 1670 Juliane Marie Pezenius (* July 2, 1653 in Dillenburg ; † February 8, 1692 in Hanau)

  1. Friedrich Grimm (the elder) (born October 16, 1672 in Hanau, † April 4, 1748 in Hanau) ∞II. October 27, 1701 Kunigunde Juliane Hake (born August 6, 1676 in Rotenburg an der Fulda ; † December 8, 1726 in Hanau)
    1. Friedrich Grimm (the younger) (* March 11, 1708; † March 20, 1777) ∞ October 6, 1734 Christine Elisabeth Heilmann (* October 22, 1715 in Birstein ; † February 17, 1754)
      1. Juliane Charlotte Friederike Grimm (* August 3, 1735; † December 18, 1796 in Hanau) ∞ Jacob Ludwig Schlemmer († April 19, 1785 in Hanau)
      2. Philipp Wilhelm Grimm (September 9, 1751 - January 10, 1796) ∞ March 23, 1783 Dorothea Zimmer (* November 20, 1755 in Kassel ; † May 27, 1808 in Kassel)
        1. Friedrich Hermann Georg Grimm (* December 12, 1783 in Hanau; † March 16, 1784 in Hanau)
        2. Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (born January 4, 1785 in Hanau, † September 20, 1863 in Berlin)
        3. Wilhelm Carl Grimm (* February 24, 1786 in Hanau; † December 16, 1859 in Berlin) ∞ May 15, 1825 Henriette Dorothea (Dortchen) Wild (* May 23, 1793 in Kassel; † August 22, 1867 in Eisenach)
          1. Jacob Grimm (April 3, 1826 - December 15, 1826)
          2. Herman Friedrich Grimm (born January 6, 1828; † June 16, 1901) ∞ October 25, 1859 Gisela von Arnim (born August 30, 1827; † April 4, 1889)
          3. Rudolf Georg Ludwig Grimm (March 31, 1830 - November 13, 1889)
          4. Auguste Luise Pauline Marie Grimm (* August 21, 1832 - † February 9, 1919)
        4. Carl Friedrich Grimm (born April 24, 1787 in Hanau, † May 25, 1852 in Kassel)
        5. Ferdinand Philipp Grimm (* December 18, 1788 in Hanau; † January 6, 1845 in Wolfenbüttel)
        6. Ludwig Emil Grimm (born March 14, 1790 in Hanau; † April 4, 1863 in Kassel)
          1. ∞ May 20, 1832 Marie Böttner (* August 9, 1803; † August 15, 1842)
            1. Friederike (Ideke) Lotte Amalia Maria Grimm (* July 23, 1833; † December 17, 1914) ∞ August 19, 1854 Rudolf von Eschwege (* January 22, 1821; † November 24, 1875)
          2. ∞ April 14, 1845 Friederike Ernst (* December 24, 1806; † April 2, 1894)
        7. Friedrich Grimm (born June 15, 1791 in Steinau, † August 20, 1792 in Steinau)
        8. Charlotte Amalie Grimm (Lotte) (born May 10, 1793 in Steinau; † June 15, 1833 in Kassel) ∞ July 2, 1822 Hans Daniel Ludwig Friedrich Hassenpflug (born February 26, 1794 in Hanau; † October 10, 1862 in Marburg )
          1. Karl Hassenpflug (January 5, 1824 - February 18, 1890), sculptor, married, childless
          2. Agnes (born December 11, 1825 - † October 29, 1829)
          3. Friedrich (born September 10, 1827 - † January 23, 1892 in Breslau ). Higher regional judge in Breslau, married to Anna Volmar, daughter of a ministerial colleague of his father
          4. Bertha (April 27, 1829 - June 9, 1830)
          5. Ludwig (Luis) (born December 1, 1831 - † October 11, 1878 in Malta ), officer in the Austrian Navy , married, childless
          6. Dorothea (born May 23, 1833; † January 24, 1898 in Munich )
        9. Georg Eduard Grimm (born July 26, 1794 in Steinau, † April 19, 1795 in Steinau)
      3. Nine more children
    2. Six more children


Ludwig Emil Grimm Prize

In 2012 the city of Hanau awarded the Ludwig Emil Grimm Prize for Fine Arts to Hans Traxler (* 1929), draftsman, journalist and writer for the first time. From 2015, the prize of 2,500 euros will be supported by civic engagement and accompanied by a retrospective. Other award winners are Greser & Lenz and FW Bernstein alias Fritz Weigle.

Bronze statue of Ludwig Emil Grimm

In 2014, with the support of the operating couple, a life-size bronze statue of Grimm was erected in front of the “Zum Riesen” hotel in Hanau. The occasion is Grimm's stay in this hotel on the occasion of the New Year's Eve Ball in 1819, which he remembers with the following words: “Before the New Year, I was invited by Forest Assessor Balde to Hanau, where I found Karl Blum and the Privy Councilor Leonardi of Munich. We spent New Year's Eve in the “Riesen” at a ball, where the ladies were far more beautiful than in Frankfurt, and they had grown very nicely ”. The figure was designed and built by the Hanau artist Joerg Eyfferth, who became a sculptor with it. Ludwig Emil Grimm sits on a granite bench, dressed in the Biedermeier style, with tailcoat, knotted scarf and cylinder. He seems to concentrate on the viewer in order to record it in his sketchbook. If you look over his shoulder, you will find an extract of his memoirs written on the sheet of paper.

Works in public collections

Publications

  • Etched leaves after nature , Munich 1818.
  • Brief biography of a strange and loving sow, drawn in Ihringshausen in 1849 ( digitized version ).
  • Travel diary in pictures , 1850.
  • Carlemann u. Ideken, 28 children's drawings . Edited by Karl Vötterle. With a foreword by Wilhelm Praesent, Bärenreiter, Kassel 1945.
  • Memories from my life. Edited and supplemented by Adolf Stoll. Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1911 ( digitized ).
  • Letters. 2 vols. Edited by Egbert Koolman , Elwert, Marburg 1985.
  • Ingrid Koszinowski, Vera Leuschner: Ludwig Emil Grimm. 1790-1863. Painter, draftsman, eraser. Exhibition Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, 1.6. – 15.9.1985. Hanau, Steinheim Castle, November 16 – December 15 , 1985 , Hitzeroth, Marburg 1989, ISBN 3-925944-90-7 .
  • Life memories of the painter brother . Edited by Heiner Boehncke and Hans Sarkowicz . Accompanied by Albert Schindehütte , Berlin: AB - The Other Library 2015, ISBN 978-3-8477-0016-6 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Emil Grimm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Ludwig Emil Grimm  - Sources and full texts

References and comments

  1. ^ Adolf Stoll (ed.): Ludwig Emil Grimm. Memories from my life. Leipzig 1911.
  2. ↑ Ibid., P. 91. “A painter taught me in Heidelberg, but I have completely forgotten his name; but I didn't like him, and his work still less; it seemed to me that he couldn't do much; later I saw that I had judged quite correctly. "
  3. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 219.
  4. ↑ Katrin Spanke: Ludwig Emil Grimm - Märchenillustrationen , 2009.
  5. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon , p. 382.
  6. ^ Homepage of the city of Hanau .
  7. ↑ Timo Kaufhold: FRITZ WEIGLE RECEIVES LUDWIG EMIL GRIMM PRIZE FOR CARICATURE 2018. kulturnetz-hanau.de, October 31, 2017, accessed on March 19, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Ludwig Emil Grimm: Memories from my life. Published by Adolf Stoll, Severus Verlag, Hamburg 2012, p. 337.

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SURNAME Grimm, Ludwig Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1863
Place of death kassel