Ludwig Holthausen

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Portrait of the painter Ludwig Holthausen , inspector of the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1868 to 1880, black-and-white illustration of the painting by Peter Janssen the Elder , around 1880

Ludwig Holthausen (* 1807 in Uerdingen , Département de la Roer ; † April 13, 1890 in Düsseldorf ) was a German flower and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School . From 1868 to 1880 he was the inspector of the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

Life

Holthausen attended the Düsseldorf Academy from 1825 to 1839. There he was a student of Wilhelm Schadow . In the student lists of that time he was referred to as a commissioned flower painter. From 1855 to 1870 he was a practicing painter in the academy's master class . At the same time, he specialized in copying images of saints and restoring paintings. It was also noted that he lived mainly from teaching outside of the academy, in the mid-1870s as a drawing teacher at the “Catholic secondary school for girls” in Grabenstrasse. On February 1, 1868, he was appointed inspector of the academy, succeeding Josef Wintergerst . From 1871 until his retirement in 1880, he was also a member of the Academy's teaching staff in this capacity. In Düsseldorf, where Holthausen lived until his death, he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . Holthausen lived in the house at Klosterstrasse 47, whose owner he became at the end of the 1870s and Franz Ittenbach's widow moved in around 1882 with daughters Wilhelmine and Franziska.

Holthausen's painting, including a double portrait of the daughters in childhood with flowers and fruits , which Wolfgang Hütt brought close to the Nazarene art of Andreas Müller because of the “purity of the form-bound lines” , was soon forgotten.

Before he retired, Peter Janssen the elder , who was about to take up the directorate of the art academy, portrayed him as a stout old man on a chair. The portrait of the painter Ludwig Holthausen was exhibited at the Düsseldorf trade and art exhibition in 1880 , where it received special recognition for its "painterly conception and energetic characterization". The portrait that Janssen gave to the sitter was bequeathed to the art academy during his lifetime. In 1906, at Hugo von Tschudi's request, it was transferred to the Nationalgalerie Berlin as an excellent example of Janssen's portrait painting .

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  1. ↑ See nos. 5956–5988 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
  2. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on July 29, 2017
  3. ↑ Holthausen, Ludw., Painter, Klosterstr. 47, in the address book of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf 1867 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
  4. ↑ Klosterstrasse 47, Holthausen, Academy Inspector E., in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office Düsseldorf 1879 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
  5. ↑ Ittenbach, Frz., Wwe., Geb. In short, Klosterst. 47, in the address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf 1883 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
  6. ^ Wolfgang Hütt : Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1869 . VEB EA Seemann Buch- und Kunstverlag, Leipzig 1984, p. 55
  7. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 310, 312
  8. ↑ Portrait of the painter Ludwig Holthausen , data sheet in the smb-digital.de portal , accessed on July 29, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Holthausen, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German flower painter and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Uerdingen , Département de la Roer
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1890
Place of death Dusseldorf