Martin Gensler

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Martin Gensler

Martin Gensler also Johann Martin Gensler (born May 9, 1811 in Hamburg ; † December 15, 1881 ibid) was a German painter and graphic artist from the Düsseldorf School of Painting and Hamburg School as well as a book illustrator with a focus on architectural painting .

Live and act

His older brothers Günther and Johann Jacob also descended from the marriage of his father, a gold platter and gold spinner, to Anna Elisabeth Koch, who was born on October 27, 1777 and died on December 9, 1860 in Hamburg on May 12, 1802 .

His activity as a prospective goldsmith was followed by painting and the works that have been preserved show, among other things, a focus on architectural painting. Gensler studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1836 . He worked alongside his two brothers from Hamburg.

All three Gensler brothers were also members of the Hamburg gymnastics association from 1816 .

Club of Hamburg Young Artists

Along with his two brothers, Gensler co-founded the 15-member Club of Hamburg Young Artists on September 17, 1832 (another source names September 19) , which later became the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 , which included the sculptors Otto Sigismund Runge , Otto Speckter , Carl Julius Milde , Adolph Friedrich Vollmer , Franz Heesche , and soon afterwards Hermann Kauffmann as well as the architects Alexis de Chateauneuf and Gottfried Semper were members. The statutes were revised in 1837. The association pursued the goal of professional training for artists and saw itself as a lobby group. In addition, it should serve to exchange experiences and socialize.

Gensler tomb, Heckengarten open-air museum

The association was funded by the syndicus and owner of the Hammer Hof , Karl Sieveking , who awarded commissioned work to the group of artists in connection with his house. Sieveking was also temporarily director of the Kunstverein in Hamburg from 1817 and in 1840 enabled an art exhibition on the occasion of the visit of the Danish King Christian VIII in the Hammer Hof. Depending on the season, the meeting places were the summer bar Das alten Baumhaus and, until the Hamburg fire of 1842, the Ratsweinkeller . Since 1847, the Patriotic Building has served as a conference venue for decades. Otto Speckter and the Gensler brothers were at times considered the “soul” of the association in which the merits of Martin Gensler were expressed. In 1844 the association donated a glass window for the main Protestant church of St. Petri in Hamburg. A well-known member from 1963 was the outdoor painter Hans Wrage .

Honors

The (family) tomb of Johann Martin Gensler is located in the Heckengarten open-air tomb museum at Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery , and in the area of ​​the Ohlsdorf Althamburg Memorial Cemetery on the collective tomb "painter" is written to him, his brothers Günther and Jakob and other Hamburg painters remind.

Genslerstrasse in the Hamburg district of Barmbek-Nord is named after the Gensler brothers .

Works

Architectural drawings

Interior view of St. Nikolai in Hamburg

Architectural drawings of St. Johanniskloster in Hamburg

  • 1826: A hall in the St. Johanniskloster executed in ink piano
  • 1828: The roof structure of the St. Johanniskloster executed in ink painting
  • 1828: The north side of the St. Johanniskloster in Tuschlavierung also known as the Johanniskloster from the Kleine Alster
  • 1828: The view of the Johanniskloster vom Fleeth (watercolor and 1831 etched by the artist)
  • 1828: The inner courtyard of the St. Johanniskloster executed in ink piano
  • 1829: The church ruins of the St. Johanniskloster from the east
  • 1830: The church ruins of St. Johanniskloster from the south
  • 1837: A hall of the St. Johanniskloster

Architectural drawings by St. Nikolai

  • 1831: Interior view of St. Nikolai in Hamburg

Architectural drawings of profane buildings

  • 1830: Rifle house with stone gate tower in Hamburg

painting

Oil painting

  • 1851: Wanderer's question about shelter
  • 1869: The letter

Watercolor studies

  • 1866: Fisherwoman from Blankenese

Illustrations

  • 1844: Buddrus publishing house: German poems with marginal drawings by German artists: songs and pictures. Second volume, Verlagbuchhandlung Buddrus, p. 24 , accessed December 15, 2013.

Folders

  • The St. Johanniskloster in Hamburg

Publications

Together with Cipriano F. Gaedechens and Karl Koppmann , he intended to publish a book from 1881.

Letters

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1999: Gensler: Three Hamburg Painters , August 6th to November 8th, Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 2019: Hamburg School - The 19th Century Rediscovered , April 12 to July 14, Hamburger Kunsthalle

literature

Web links

Commons : Martin Gensler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  2. ^ Carl Heitmann: Timeline of the history of the Hamburg gymnastics club from 1816: 1816–1882. Herbst, Hamburg, 1883, p. 5. ( deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de ).
  3. ↑ Michael Bergeest : Education between Commerz and Emancipation. Adult education in the Hamburg region of the 18th and 19th centuries. Waxmann, Münster and New York 1995, p. 180 ( books.google.de , also: Dissertation, University of Bamberg, 1995).
  4. ↑ Hans Wrage: The founders of the "Hamburger Künstlerverein von 1832". ( History PDF), accessed on December 16, 2013.
  5. ^ Alfred Lichtwark : Herrmann Kaufmann and art in Hamburg. Hamburg 1893, p. 65 ( books.google.de ).
  6. ↑ Johanniskloster from the Kleine Alster. , accessed December 15, 2013.
  7. ↑ Schützenhaus with stone gate tower in Hamburg , accessed on December 15, 2013.
  8. ↑ Martin Gensler and the St. Johanniskloster in Hamburg , accessed on December 15, 2013.
  9. ^ Letters from Otto Speckter to Martin Gensler , accessed on December 15, 2013.
  10. ^ Letters from Martin Gensler to Otto Speckter , accessed on December 15, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Gensler, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gensler, Johann Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and book illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1881
Place of death Hamburg