Ludwig Pietsch

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Ludwig Pietsch (1824–1911)

Ludwig Pietsch (born December 25, 1824 in Danzig ; † November 27, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German painter, art writer and columnist in Berlin.

Life

Pietsch as a painter
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Pietsch attended the Danzig art and trade school and from 1841–1843 the Berlin Art Academy and worked as a draftsman for newspapers and magazines, such as B. the well-known Illustrirte Zeitung from Leipzig. From 1864 he wrote articles for the Vossische Zeitung , the Spenersche Zeitung , for the Schlesische Zeitung published in Breslau , of which he was temporarily head of the features section, for the Grenzboten magazine published by Gustav Freytag and Julian Schmidt and for the Berliner Allgemeine Zeitung . He reported on Berlin social events, in particular on the annual press ball , whose most important chronicler and most gifted fashion critic he was considered to be the most important chronicler and most gifted fashion critic, as well as on travel experiences, art and trade exhibitions and as a companion of Crown Prince Friedrich on the Franco-German War 1871 .

Pietsch was appointed professor on his 70th birthday.

Pietsch had a reputation for being a tireless social man into old age. He dealt with actors, artists and politicians equally intensively on a daily basis and was an intimate connoisseur of almost all Berlin discussion groups, cafes, restaurants and ball events and was especially admired by his female readers. Pietsch used to celebrate his birthday for a whole day from December 24th at midnight. Alfred Kerr wrote about Pietsch:

“ “ He is a daredevil, at seventy, he is jerking the joie de vivre from every limb, he lives from the full, he has hardly given up hope of becoming dangerous to women, he is at every notable feast, at everyone Premiere, in every exhibition, at every inauguration. " (Quoted from Kerr, Alfred: Where is Berlin ?, Berlin 1997, p. 7)"

Walther Kiaulehn made a similar statement

“ “ Pietsch was a talented painter, whose social and knowledgeable talents increasingly withdrew from the easel. He was the intimate of the town houses where art was loved. He chatted witty and gallant about everything, about old families and new pictures, about exhibitions, about women's clothes, soupers and studio visits. " (Berlin - Schicksal einer Weltstadt, 1958, p. 324)"

Pietsch's most important acquaintances included the workers' leader Ferdinand Lassalle , the sculptor Reinhold Begas , the painter Adolph Menzel and the writers Theodor Storm , Theodor Fontane and Iwan Turgenjew . Pietsch maintained particularly close contact with the latter in Berlin and Baden-Baden.

Works (in selection)

  • From the world and art: studies and images . Jena: Costenoble, 1867 (2 volumes)
  • From Berlin to Paris. War pictures (1870-1871) . Berlin 1871
  • To Athens and Byzantium. A spring getaway . Berlin: Janke 1871
  • Orient trips by a Berlin draftsman . Berlin: Janke 1871
  • Morocco. Letters from the German legation trip to Fez in spring 1877 . Leipzig: Brockhaus 1878
  • Pilgrimage to Olympia in the first spring of the excavations (April and May 1876) together with a report on the results of the two following excavation campaigns . Travel letters. Berlin: Luckhardt 1879
  • Andreas Achenbach . Wroclaw 1880
  • Paul Meyerheim . Wroclaw 1881
  • Contemporary German painting at the anniversary exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1886 . Munich: Hanfstaengel 1886 ( digitized joint library network (GBV))
  • The painting at the Munich anniversary art exhibition in 1888 . Munich: Hanfstaengel 1888–1889
  • Ludwig Pietsch: How I became a writer. The whimsical novel of my life . ( Digitized by the Digital Library of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
    • Volume 1: Memories from the 1950s . Berlin: Fontane 1893.
    • Volume 2: Memories from the Sixties . Berlin: Fontane 1894.
    • Newly published by Peter Goldammer, Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag 2000. ISBN 3-351-02875-X
  • International art exhibition Berlin 1896. Accompanying text by Ludwig Pietsch. Franz Hanfstaengl, Munich 1896 digitized
  • From old and young . Memories. Berlin: Fontane 1904
  • The great Christmas exhibitions , ed. Angelika Friederici, in: Castan's Panopticum. A medium is viewed, issue 3 (D1), Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-928589-23-9

Letters

Unprinted letters

Printed letters

  • Leaves of friendship. From the correspondence between Theodor Storm and Ludwig Pietsch . Communicated by Volquart Pauls. Heide: Boyens 1939
  • Theodor Fontane's letters to Ludwig Pietsch. Introduced u. commented by Christa Schultze. In: Fontane leaves. Potsdam. Vol. 2, Issue 1, 1969, pp. 10-59
  • Ivan Turgenev . Letters to Ludwig Pietsch. With an appendix: Ludwig Pietsch on Turgenev . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1968

literature

  • Ludwig Pietsch on his 80th birthday, December 25, 1904 . Berlin: von Holten 1909
  • Catalog of a rich collection of oil paintings, watercolors, hand drawings and original graphic works by the first German and foreign artists of our time: from the bequests of the writer Professor Ludwig Pietsch, Berlin, the Privy Councilor Dr. C. Ruland, Weimar, and Mr. J. Fromm, Gnesen. Auction in Berlin 23.-26. October 1912 . Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin 1912
  • Der Große Brockhaus , 15th edition 1933, volume 14, page 564
  • W. Finger: Fritz Reuter and Ludwig Pietsch . In: Ostdeutsche Monatshefte. Culture magazine for the east . Stollhamm, Oldbenburg, Vol. 16.1935, pp. 479-485
  • Grete Grewolls: Pietsch, Ludwig . In: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Edited by the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Library. Hinstorff, Rostock 2011 ISBN 978-3-356-01405-1

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Reuter Literature Archive Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Pietsch, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, art writer and columnist
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1911
Place of death Berlin