Ludwig Streitenfeld

Ludwig Streitenfeld , also Louis Streitenfeld (* December 20, 1849 in Vienna - Leopoldstadt ; † February 6, 1930 in Eisenach , Land Thuringia ), was a German-Austrian portrait , landscape and still life painter as well as illustrator , copyist and restorer . From 1902 to 1918 he was the last court painter in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz .

Life

Streitenfeld, son of the Viennese upholsterer Ludwig Streitenfeld and his wife Johanna, née Ulner, studied at the Vienna Art Academy until 1872 . He is also said to have attended the academies in Munich , Düsseldorf and Dresden . He was also a student at Eduard von Engerth's “Special School for History Painting” . He also deepened his knowledge in the studio of the portrait painters Heinrich von Angeli and Hans Makart . He maintained closer contacts with the painter Hans Canon and the sculptor Viktor Tilgner . In 1872 Streitenfeld became a member of the Viennese artists ' association Künstlerhaus , since 1876 he was listed there as an absent member.

Franz II , commissioned work for Rudolf of Austria-Hungary , 1874, today Museum Schloss Franzensburg in Laxenburg

In 1874 he became the pupil of the school of Engerth next Ludwig Minnigerode (* 1847), Robert Schuster of Bärnrode (1845-1894), Josef Festl and Julius Berger from the Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary the order , a series of portraits of German emperors for to build a hall of the Hofburg , in which the apartment of Empress Karoline Augusta was previously located. In this context, Streitenfeld created his most famous work, the portrait of Emperor Franz II , which shows him in full figure as the Roman-German Emperor in coronation regalia and in possession of the imperial insignia . In the same year he received a call to the Pinakothek in Munich , where he was supposed to copy pictures by old masters, a task that he had previously carried out for the Belvedere in Vienna . He lived in Munich until 1880 and in Würzburg until 1882 . He stayed in Italy for a long time (1883–1886), traveling to France , Switzerland , Holland and the United States . In Berlin , where he settled for seven years, he created not only commissioned work for the German Empress Auguste Viktoria, but also a copy of the picture The Man with the Gold Helmet, then attributed to Rembrandt .

In 1899 Streitenfeld married the landscape and portrait painter Elfriede Krüger (1876–1950), who was 26 years his junior, and the daughter of the Kalkhorst pastor Heinrich Krüger (1836–1921). The couple had two sons. In 1902, Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm II of Mecklenburg appointed him court painter and restorer. He became the successor to the painter Georg Kannengießer, who died in 1900 . He and his family moved into an apartment at Neustrelitz Castle . During this time, he created portraits of the German Emperor Wilhelm II (1915), the Mecklenburg Grand Dukes Friedrich Wilhelm II, Adolf Friedrich V and Adolf Friedrich VI. , the Mecklenburg Grand Duchess Augusta Karoline (1911), the Mecklenburg Duke Karl Borwin and the Oberhofmarschall Friedrich von Maltzan . In 1909 Adolf Friedrich V awarded him the title of professor . The mysterious death of the last Mecklenburg Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich VI. , the events of the First World War and the November Revolution brought about the fact that the court of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was dissolved by the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1918. In the process, Streitenfeld became unemployed. He moved to Neetzka , where he painted together with his student Martha Gerling, in 1925 to Eisenach. There he died at the age of 81 after a short illness.

literature

• Streitenfeld, Ludwig . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 180 .
• Siegfried Weiss : Ludwig Streitenfeld. Portrait of a mother with her children. In: Weltkunst . 68, 15, 1998, p. 2834 f.
• Jürgen Lenz: Professor Ludwig Streitenfeld - the painter of the Klein Vielener chapel and mill. In: village newspaper. Life between Lieps and the Havel spring. No. 7, 2016, p. 33 ff. ( Kleinvielen-ev.de PDF).

Web links

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

• Literature about Ludwig Streitenfeld in the state bibliography MV
• Ludwig Streitenfeld , data sheet in the RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis
• Ludwig (Louis) Streitenfeld artnet .de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No entry in the matriculation database
2. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 440.
3. ↑ General directory of members , website in the portal wladimir-aichelburg.at , accessed on December 18, 2016.
4. ↑ The bee. Illustrated magazine for entertainment and instruction. Supplement No. 17 of June 10, 1874 ( books.google.de ).
5. ↑ Morning Post. Issue No. 314 from November 15, 1874 ( books.google.de ).
6. ^ Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1822–1916), when Dowager Grand Duchess Friedrich Wilhelm of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , website in the portal royalcollection.org.uk , accessed on December 18, 2016.