Ludwig Rullmann
Ludwig Rullmann (* 1765 in Bremen , † probably 1822 in Paris ) was a German painter , engraver and lithographer .
biography
Rullmann's ancestors came from Göttingen to Bremen, where his father Jacob Ferdinand Rullmann (1774–1828) received citizenship in 1763 and worked as a shoemaker and as a clerk at the Bremen Cathedral . His younger sister was the poet and writer Elise Reindahl .
He attended the Latin school in Bremen, where he presumably received his first training in drawing.
His artistic talent was already evident at a young age, as his youthful self-portrait from the years between 1780 and 1785 suggests. At that time he probably came into contact with the Gesellschaft Museum in Bremen and was given the opportunity to use the collection of the local art gallery for study purposes.
From 1788 studied Rullmann with the help of a scholarship , the Eltermann Kulenkamp and the alderman Deneken and Iken funded, at the Dresden Art Academy . Here he especially practiced drawing portraits with Anton Graff . In 1794 he returned to Bremen, where he worked as a "master drawing and engraver" according to the Bremen sales address calendar and lived on Domsheide . In the following years he worked as a drawing teacher and portrait draftsman. Above all, he portrayed people from Bremen society. Numerous paintings were also created. In 1801 he was a participant in the competition for visual artists in Weimar and conducted a brief exchange of letters with Johann Wolfgang Goethe . Around 1804 he came into contact with the doctor, writer and Goethe friend Nikolaus Meyer , for whose drama Kalloterpe he made illustrations .
After the death of his wife Elise, Rullmann went to Paris in 1805 or 1806; Why he decided to take this step at the age of 40 and a secure livelihood is not known. According to Wilhelm Hurm , he worked here in the studio of Jacques-Louis David - Napoleon's court painter . Various lithographs by actors and actresses for the magazine Carrier du Spectacle as well as a series of pictures on the Affaire Fualdès , a judicial case that caused a sensation in France in 1817/18, have been preserved from his time in Paris .
From 1822 Rullmann is considered lost, as no more works or news from him have survived; presumably he died in Paris.
The Paris Archives hold a card in the files of the restored marital status, which shows the death of a certain Louis Rullmann in Paris in the former 4th district on April 8, 1823.
After his death, the National Archives in Paris took stock of "Amadieu-Louis Rullmann, peintre, demeurant rue de l'Arbre Sec, No. 46", compiled on July 12, 1823, Study XVIII.
Most of his surviving oeuvre is kept in the Kunsthalle Bremen .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edith Laudowicz : Reindahl, Anna Christina Elisabeth, called Elise , geb. Rullmann. In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
- ↑ Bremischer Action Address Calendar . Bremen 1794.
- ^ Wilhelm Hurm: Descriptive directory of the paintings and sculptures of the Kunstverein zu Bremen . Bremen 1892, p. 90 f .
literature
- Anne Röver-Kann: Ludwig Rullmann. Idyll - revolution - restoration . In: Jörn Christiansen (Hrsg.): Art and citizenship in Bremen. Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-89757-063-7 , pp. 180-199.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rullmann, Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rullmann from Bremen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1765 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: 1822 |
| Place of death | uncertain: Paris |