Ludwig Horst

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Ludwig Horst (born December 28, 1829 in Büdingen , † August 19, 1891 in Degerloch ) was a German painter.

Life

He was born as the son of the Grand Ducal Hessian and Countish Isenburg bailiff at the Büdingen district court, Johann Caspar Adolph Horst (around 1895–1854), and his wife, Sophia Antonia, née Bausch, from Freiburg im Breisgau . In the Protestant baptism he was given the first name Tobias Georg Philipp Christian Ludwig, after his godparents, noted in the baptismal register, Tobias Horst, senior appellate judge in Darmstadt , Georg Philipp Ludwig Christian Lotz, stocking manufacturer in Steinau an der Straße , and Georg Bausch, merchant in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Ludwig Horst grew up with his sisters Luise (* 1828) and Charlotte (* 1832) as well as their brother Carl (* 1835) in Büdingen until the family moved to Nidda in 1838 , where he attended elementary school. In 1844 he moved to the Wolfgang Ernst Gymnasium in Büdingen and passed the Abitur examination there in 1849. He then joined the Grand Ducal Hessian Artillery Corps stationed in Darmstadt as a one-year volunteer , but decided not to train as an officer and decided to become a painter.

He was enrolled at the Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf from 1856 to 1858. He completed the elementary class and the preparatory class for the painting school with Josef Wintergerst , Andreas and Karl Müller and Christian Köhler and attended the lectures on art history with Andreas Müller. In the 2nd year he took the subjects anatomy and proportion theory with Heinrich Mücke . All teachers certified him talent, hard work and good behavior. His entry into the class of antiquities at the Munich Art Academy under Johann Georg Hiltensperger is documented on January 2, 1862 as "Louis Horst from Schlitz, father: bailiff, denomination: Lutheran, age: 31"

In 1864 Ludwig Horst settled as a portrait painter in Heidelberg , where he married three years later, on September 26, 1867, Maria Luise Nebel (1840–1901), who was 11 years his junior. She was the eldest daughter of the late surgeon, ophthalmologist and private lecturer Dr. med. Heinrich Wilhelm Daniel Nebel (1809–1855), and his wife Katharina Maria Friederike, née Zimmer (1810–1884). The marriage resulted in two sons who died in childhood, another son who drowned in the Rhine as a student at the age of 21, and two daughters who were later married. The family moved from Heidelberg to Stuttgart, where they were registered (1876) at Eugenstrasse 22. In Degerloch - today a part of Stuttgart - Ludwig Horst died on August 19, 1891 after a five-month illness. His widow, Maria Horst, survived him by 10 years; she died on August 28, 1901 in Albersweiler .

In 1859 Ludwig Horst exhibited an “Italian Evening Landscape” at the Munich Art Association; the title of the picture suggests a previous stay in Italy. A short description and evaluation of the picture appeared in the daily press: (...) the evening landscape of an Italian region, glowing and dazzling in color, rich in forest valleys, rocky spaces and mountains, it is just a pity that the heaped masses were not arranged more clearly. The estate exhibition on the occasion of his death also showed early copies after older masters, which were probably made during his time in Munich and Rome. Horst's main work, however, consists almost exclusively of portraits. The portrait commissions came mainly from the royal and ducal house of Württemberg and its aristocratic circle, others from upper class bourgeois society. These successful portraits of well-known and famous personalities were also shown publicly, for example in the "Permanent Art Exhibition Herdtle & Peters" in Stuttgart or on the occasion of the "Stuttgart Portrait Exhibition" of 1881 and also in the national annual exhibitions in Munich and Berlin .

Ludwig Horst was a member of the Stuttgart artist society "Das radiant Bergwerk" and the Stuttgart art cooperative and was friends with many artists. On the occasion of the painter's burial in the Stuttgart cemetery, the architect Christian Friedrich von Leins and the painter Heinrich Schaumann, as representatives of the artistic community, gave the funerary speeches. The Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten reported on August 23, 1891 and a few days later referred to the exhibition of the estate in the studio and the sale of the bequeathed paintings and studies. Obituaries appeared in the local daily newspapers, in art magazines and in the Büdinger Allgemeine Anzeiger on September 5, 1891.

Work (selection)

Copies (1891 in the estate):

  • Fruit wreath , copy after Peter Paul Rubens : putti with fruit wreath , Munich, Alte Pinakothek
  • The incredulous Thomas , copy after Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591–1666), known as Il Guercino, acquired in 1898 by the Royal Museum in Stuttgart from Marie Horst
  • Unknown title, copy after Guido Reni

Painting:

  • Young Italian woman in costume from the Alban Mountains , oil / canvas: Catalog for the 1st international art exhibition in the Royal Glass Palace in Munich, Munich 1869, No. 264: Horst in Heidelberg
  • Portrait of a lady in a blue dress , Ö / Lwd., 90 cm × 71 cm, inscribed: Horst 1871 : Dorotheum auction Vienna, 2016
  • Sibling pair (presumably their own children), oil / canvas, oval, 78 cm × 62 cm; sign. ul: L. Horst 1875
  • Portrait of the German Emperor (Wilhelm I); German art exhibition of the world exhibition in Philadelphia 1876
  • Portrait of Duke Eugene of Württemberg , life-size portrait, commissioned by Queen Olga of Württemberg ; Repetition for her adopted daughter, the widow of the Duke, Vera Konstantinovna Romanova , who died in January 1877 ; exhibited: Stuttgart portrait exhibition 1881
  • Portrait of the writer Emma Vely ; Commissioned by her husband, the Stuttgart-based publisher Carl Simon
  • Portrait of the actress Eleonore Wahlmann in the role of "Phaedra" ; exhibited: Annual exhibition in the Glaspalast, Munich 1876
  • Portrait of the poet Sophie Countess Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach (1857–1924); exhibited: anniversary exhibition, Berlin 1886
  • Portrait of a young lady in a red skirt and red velvet jacket with a lace collar , 1887; Oil / canvas, 137 cm × 88 cm: Nagel auction, Stuttgart, September 25, 2003, No. 1361
  • Portraits of the Hamburg merchant Carl Theodor Rudolph Goldenberg (1850–1913) and his wife Eleonora Hermine Wilhelmine (1854–1920), 1888; each oil / canvas, oval, 63.2 cm × 51.6 cm or 63.9 cm × 51 cm, and each inscribed: L. Horst / 1888 .: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, portrait collection; Inv. No. 1964/5 and 1964/6; Gift from Mrs. Magdalene Funcke
  • Portrait of the high school rector of Büdingen, Georg Thudichum, 1794–1873 ; Gift of the painter to the Büdinger Gymnasium, 1889
  • Portrait of a Tübingen university professor in official robe ; exhibited: Stuttgarter Kunstverein, February 1891
  • Boy portrait / girl portrait ; exhibited: Berlin, international art exhibition 1891
  • The dream of St. Cecilia ; last work by the artist.
  • Portrait of a girl with a rose decoration , oil / canvas. 126.5 cm × 80 cm: art trade
  • Nocturnal fishing under a full moon , oil / canvas, 74 cm × 110 cm, signed lower left L. Horst : Linz, Upper Austria State Gallery, Inv. No. G 879
  • Failing sailing ship , Linz, Upper Austrian State Gallery, Inv. No. G 735

literature

  • Friedrich Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1, 1. Dresden 1891.
  • Brigitte Heinzl: The painting collection of the art history department of the Upper Austrian State Museum in Linz. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Society for Regional Studies, Volume 124, I. Treatises, Linz 1979 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • Siegfried Weiß : The portrait painter Ludwig Horst (1829–1891) from Büdingen and his ancestors. In: Büdinger history sheets. Historical news sheet for the former Büdingen district Volume 22, 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The grandfather, Georg Conrad Horst , was a Protestant pastor and author of theological and historical works.
  2. ^ Matriculation of the Wolfgang-Ernst-Gymnasium in Büdingen: Büdingen, City Archives: March 7, 1844 Ludwig Horst from Nidda, 14 years old.
  3. ^ Volkmar Stein: Liber Scholasticum. The students of the Büdinger Gymnasium between 1790 and 1946 .
  4. ↑ Communication from PD Dr. Dawn M. Leach, Head of the Archives of the Art Academy Düsseldorf (December 2011).
  5. ↑ Entry in the matriculation database .
  6. ↑ Georg Ludwig Menzer: Tribal history of the Nebel family . Gluing 1937.
  7. ↑ See reference to a stay in Rome with Thieme-Becker.
  8. ↑ Abendblatt to the Neue Münchener Zeitung , No. 12, December 31, 1859.
  9. ↑ Kunstchronik 11, 1876, p. 449.
  10. ^ Art gallery of the painters Pieter Francis Peters and Eduard Herdtle ; founded in 1861
  11. ↑ Founded in 1850 by Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer
  12. ↑ (Ludwig Horst †). As we are told from Stuttgart, the portrait painter Ludwig Horst died on Wednesday at the summer resort of Degerloch near Stuttgart at the age of 61 of cardiac paralysis. Horst was a popular personality in Stuttgart and a very experienced artist in the portrait field.
  13. ↑ Munich Latest News No. 378 of August 23, 1891 and No. 495 of October 30, 1891.
  14. ^ Neues Tagblatt , Stuttgart, August 22, 1891; Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst , supplement 12, 1877, p. 614; Art for All 7, 1892, pp. 10, 110.
  15. ↑ Die Kunst für Alle Vol. 7, Issue 7, 1892, p. 110.
  16. ^ Directory of the painting collection of the Royal Museum Stuttgart 1907, No. 553
  17. ↑ Official catalog. German department. Berlin 1876, p. 93: No. 692
  18. ↑ Boetticher, Malerwerke des 19. Century, No. 2
  19. ↑ Boetticher, Malerwerke des 19. Century , No. 1.
  20. ↑ Catalog, No. 518; see. Boetticher, No. 3
  21. ↑ Illustration in: Friedrich Thudichum: History of the Thudichum family: First part 1716-1848 .
  22. ↑ Schwäbischer Merkur / Schwäbische Kronik , No. 45, evening edition, February 24, 1891, p. 368.
  23. ↑ Boetticher, Malerwerke des 19. Century , No. 4 and 5.
  24. ↑ Die Kunst für Alle Vol 7, Issue 7, 1892, p. 110: (…) a larger picture of noble religious attitudes.
personal data
SURNAME Horst, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horst, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Büdingen
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1891
Place of death Degerloch