Moritz Berendt
Moritz Berendt (born September 6, 1805 in Berlin ; † May 26, 1888 in Marienwerder ) was a German portrait and history painter .
Life
Moritz Berendt was the son of the Jewish businessman Levin Berendt and his wife Johanna, nee. Friedländer, in Berlin. From 1827 he received lessons in Karl Wilhelm Wach's studio in Berlin . He converted to Christianity; on January 10, 1828 he was baptized in the Trinity Church by the assistant preacher Adolf August Kober (1798–1877). From 1833 to 1835 he studied with Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .
He returned to Berlin; In the following years his studio was initially on Leipziger Platz , then on Markgrafenstrasse, Lindenstrasse and later on Oranienstrasse. Between 1830 and 1860 he participated regularly in the academic art exhibitions of the Prussian Academy of the Arts . From January 1855 he was a drawing teacher at the Marienwerder grammar school.
Berendt was very religious, worked a lot for awakening Pomeranian aristocratic families and joined the Old Lutherans .
He was married to Charlotte Beate Amalie Gertrude Berendt, b. Elmering (* 1830 in Telgte ; † 1896). The geologist Gottlieb Berendt was a nephew.
plant
Berendt devoted himself particularly to portrait painting, the religious genre and history painting, which often also dealt with a theme of church history and was based on the painting style of the Nazarenes . His works included:
- Christ with Maria and Marta (1830, today Foundation Collection Volmer, Wuppertal)
- Jan Hus in the dungeon
- The Prophet Elias in the Wilderness (1834, now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art )
- several scenes from the life of Martin Luther
- Luther with his family , as a lithograph from 1857 in the British Museum
- The sick mother ( lost in Rheinsberg Castle in 1945 )
- allegorical works such as The Invention of Painting (1834)
Berendt portrayed numerous members of the Brandenburg and Pomeranian nobility.
In 1850 he exhibited a full-length portrait of Otto von Bismarck , showing him as a member of the United State Parliament against the backdrop of the Schönhausen estate, together with his Danish mastiff Odin . He couldn't sell it at first. In a raffle, a group of Brandenburg landowners bought the painting and gave it to the city council of Brandenburg an der Havel in 1854 , where it hung in the town hall. When the town hall was destroyed in World War II, it was also destroyed.
The Prophet Elias in the Desert (1834)
Otto von Bismarck (1847)
literature
- Hermann Board : Berendt, Moritz . 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. 380 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Berendt, Moritz . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 9, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 , p. 269.
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal for the Gymnasium. 9, 1855, p. 223.
- ^ Heinrich Quiring: Berendt, Gottlieb Michael. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 69 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ Berendt, Moritz. Brief description in the portal stiftung-volmer.de , accessed on January 6, 2018
- ↑ Christ with Mary and Martha
- ↑ Elijah in the Desert
- ↑ Luther with his family
- ↑ Entry in the Lost Art database
- ↑ Otto Tschirch : A forgotten Bismarck picture. In: Westermanns Monatshefte 52, 1908, pp. 137ff .; Sebastian children, Haik Thomas Porada (ed.): Brandenburg an der Havel and surroundings. A geographical inventory in the area of Brandenburg an der Havel, Pritzerbe, Reckahn and Wusterwitz (= Landscapes in Germany . Volume 69). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-412-09103-0 , p. 417.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berendt, Moritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait and history painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1888 |
| Place of death | Marienwerder |