Moritz Delfs

Moritz Delfs (born April 18, 1823 in Segeberg ; † December 28, 1906 in Hamburg ) was a German painter, lithographer and illustrator.

Napoleonic battle scene (1869), from the art market

Life

The son of the cantor in Segeberg first learned the teaching profession at the father's request. His older brother, who was employed as a teacher and organist in Ottensen, managed to get Moritz Delfs to train as a lithographer from 1845 to 1847 with Otto Speckter in Altona . In 1848 Delfs went to Vienna. There he studied at the Academy of United Fine Arts with Carl Grethofer , but broke off his studies due to his participation in the First Schleswig-Holstein War , which he documented in numerous drawings and paintings. In 1852/53 he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp , where he met and portrayed Wilhelm Busch . In 1853 he was in Paris and copied a. a. based on works by Horace Vernet and Hippolyte Bellangé . In 1854/55 Delfs worked as an animal and landscape painter in Hamburg before returning to Paris in 1856. He studied there with Constant Troyon in the forest of Fontainebleau . From 1860 he was a drawing teacher in Hamburg, a. a. at Konrad Schleiden's private school . His students included the future neurologist Max Nonne and the art historian Adolph Goldschmidt . He also provided illustrations for the Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung . After 1863 he was the chairman of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

Works

• Self-portrait, lithograph, 1847, Hamburger Kunsthalle
• Knight Bock von Schlanstedt kidnaps Countess Oda von Falkenstein, oil on canvas, Werningerode Castle
• Artillery on horseback before the battle (Kolding 1849), Schleswig-Holstein State Library, Kiel
• Battle near the village of Gudsoe on May 7, 1849, oil on canvas, Altonaer Museum Hamburg
• approx. 25 drawings from the German-Danish war from 1848–1851 in the Altonaer Museum Hamburg
• Portrait of Wilhelm Busch, drawing, around 1852, Wilhelm Busch Museum Hanover
• Partial copies from the Passage de troupes françaises dans les Pyrénées after Hippolyte Bellangé, 1853, whereabouts unknown (Hamburg, SUB c)
• Landscape , copy after Karl Bodmer, 1853, whereabouts unknown (ibid.) 53
• Cattle pasture near Kellinghusen, oil on canvas, 1861, Kellinghusen Local History Museum
• Battle scene, 1869, oil on canvas. Kiel art gallery
• Exodus of the prisoners from Metz, oil on canvas, Hamburger Kunsthalle

literature

• Nina Struckmeyer: Delfs, Moritz (Ernst August). In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015.

Web links

Commons : Moritz Delfs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Ries, Portraits and Self-Portraits of Young Busch, in: Wilhelm Busch Yearbook 1983, No. 12 and 13.
2. ^ Max Nonne, Beginning and Goal of My Life - Memories, Hamburg 1971, p. 13. Adolph Goldschmidt, Lebenserinnerungen, Berlin 1989, p. 41f.