Ludwig Hugo Becker

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Ludwig Hugo Becker, photo by Arnold Overbeck , Gebr. G. & A. Overbeck in Düsseldorf

Ludwig Hugo Becker , also Louis Hugo Becker (born July 19, 1833 in Wesel , † December 25, 1868 in Düsseldorf ), was a German painter , draftsman and etcher of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Becker grew up in Wesel on the Lower Rhine and attended grammar school there - together with the later painters Ernst Bosch and Ernst von Bernuth , among others . The painter Hendrik Lot , whose private student Becker became in 1850, taught here as a drawing teacher . Together with the teacher as well as Ernst Bosch, the later painter Ernst von Raven , the lithographer Wilhelm Düms and others, he drew after the living model in evening classes. In the summer of 1851, landscape studies in the vicinity of Wesel were made in the summer of 1851 in preparation for the studies and specifically for the creation of the template folder to be submitted. With the specialty copper engraver he entered the "Antikensaal" under Karl Ferdinand Sohn at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1852 and also attended the building class under Rudolf Wiegmann . In 1853 he was a student in the landscape class of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , from 1854 to 1860 in the painting class of Hans Fredrik Gude . From 1859 he made numerous study trips to the Rhine and Moselle, to Hesse (to the Willingshausen painters' colony ), to the Baltic Sea, to Normandy and Switzerland as well as to Italy and - together with Wilhelm Busch , Carl Irmer , Christian Kröner and Julius Rollmann - to the Upper Bavarian Brannenburg . From 1857 Becker was a member of the artists' association Malkasten and from 1865 of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia .

He showed his work in the annual exhibitions of the Düsseldorf Art Association and in the "permanent art exhibitions" of the art dealers Eduard Schulte and Bismeyer & Kraus in Düsseldorf and, above all, in Berlin. Etchings and lithographs based on his works have appeared in the Düsseldorf youth album ( Der Einsiedler , Die Schaukel , 1859), in the German artist album ( Abendlandschaft , 1859), in the Düsseldorf artist album ( Die Schöne Luft , 1859; Sommer. 1866) as well as in the magazine for visual arts ( Wassermühle im Walde , 1863). Becker was represented with illustrations in numerous publications, including in the Düsseldorf picture folder , in the album German Art and Poetry , in German picture sheets for young and old , in German Ballad Treasure , edited by Gustav Wendt.

Works (selection)

Sunday morning , 1860 (black and white illustration of the oil painting)
Village road in the mountains , 1867 (black and white illustration of the oil painting)
  • Winter landscape with an old church , 1852.
  • Landscape with a Hermit , 1855.
  • On the church side , 1855, Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast
  • Festival of sacrifice of the old Germans in the holy grove , 1856.
  • Village idyll , 1859, formerly Düsseldorf, Lissauer collection
  • Passing thunderstorm , 1859.
  • Sunday morning , 1860.
  • Boys sledding , 1861.
  • Sunshine on the Country Road , 1862.
  • Coastal landscape near St. Valéry , 1862, Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast
  • Channel coast in Normandy , 1863.
  • Netzflicker , 1863.
  • Bach im Wiesengrund , 1864, Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast
  • Haus am Hang (Bergisches Land) , 1865, Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast
  • Christmas Eve , (1866).
  • Auf der Höhe (village road in the mountains) , 1867.
  • Going to church , 1867.
  • The bleach , 1868.
  • Grape harvest on the Moselle , 1868, last picture by the artist
  • Hessian village , Kiel, Pomerania Foundation, Rantzau Castle
  • The landscape painter , Wuppertal, Von der Heydt Museum
  • Sketchbook, 1856–1859: Mountain landscape , pencil drawing, 1864, Düsseldorf, Malkasten Artists' Association

literature

  • Ludwig Bund: Memorial sheets to Ludwig Hugo Becker . Düsseldorf 1869.
  • Moritz Blanckarts : Düsseldorf artist. Necrologist for the past 10 years . Stuttgart 1877.
  • Becker, Louis Hugo. In: Robert Edmund Graves, Sir Walter Armstrong (Eds.): Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers . George Bell and Sons, London 1886, Volume 1, p. 99 (digitized version)
  • Adolf Rosenberg : From the Düsseldorf painting school. Studies and sketches . 1889.
  • Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history . Volume I-1, Dresden 1891.
  • Becker, Hugo (Ludwig Hugo) . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 148 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists. prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1921, Volume 1, 1921.
  • Walter Cohen : One Hundred Years of Rhenish Painting . Bonn 1924, pp. 5, 13, 14, 22; Plates 66, 67.
  • Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume 1, 1976.
  • Hans Ries: Illustrations and Illustrators 1871–1914. The range of images from the Wilhelminian era. History and aesthetics of the original and printing techniques. International lexicon of illustrators. Bibliography of her work in German-language books and magazines, on picture sheets and blackboards . H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-87898-329-8 .
  • Jürgen A. Wollmann: The Willingshausen painters 'colony and the Kleinsassen painters' colony . Fulda 1992.
  • Siegfried Weiß: Ernst Bosch (1834–1917). Life and work. On Düsseldorf painting of the 2nd half of the 19th century . Dissertation University of Munich 1992.
  • Martina Sitt: Ludwig Hugo Becker. In: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , pp. 98-102 (fig.).
  • Becker, Hugo (Louis Hugo; Ludwig Hugo). In: Andreas Beyer among others: General artist dictionary. The visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 8, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , p. 165.

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Hugo Becker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 144.
  2. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 234. (digitized version)
  3. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on February 21, 2016.
  4. ↑ The beautiful air. In: Düsseldorf artist album. 9th year, 1859.
  5. ↑ summer. In: Düsseldorf artist album. 16th year, 1866.
  6. ↑ Volume VII, 1872.
  7. ↑ Grote'sche Verlagbuchhandlung Berlin, around 1866.
  8. ^ Friedrich Bodenstedt (Ed.), Album of German Art and Poetry, 1st edition. Berlin 1867, p. 31 and 4th edition, 1877.
  9. ↑ Volume 1, No. 9. Verlag Gustav Weise (Ed.) Stuttgart.
  10. ↑ Grote'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 1871.
  11. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 2, p. 239 (Catalog No. 194)
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Ludwig Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Louis Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and etcher from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1868
Place of death Dusseldorf