Nikolaus Barthelmess

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Nikolaus Barthelmess, self-portrait, around 1870

Nikolaus Georg Barthelmess (born June 27, 1829 in Erlangen , † August 29, 1889 in Düsseldorf ) was a German engraver .

life and work

Nikolaus Barthelmess' talent for drawing showed very early and with the support of his parents, he went to the Academy of Fine Arts for a year in 1851, after he had learned the beginnings of his art of copper engraving under Carl Mayer in Nuremberg from the age of 15 Arts in Munich . There he was trained in the cartoon manner under Julius Thaeter . In order to learn the line style , he moved to Düsseldorf in 1852 and worked for four years under the direction of Joseph von Keller . After a stay in Paris, he settled permanently in Düsseldorf. There his wife gave birth to Maria, a sister of the engraverRudolf Stang , in 1862 the son Rudolf , who later became a portrait painter. In 1874 Barthelmess was one of the Düsseldorf painters of the Willingshausen painters' colony . In the spring of 1888 he was appointed as a juror for the III. International art exhibition in the Glaspalast Munich called. When Nikolaus Barthelmess died after a seven-week illness on August 29, 1889, his last sheet, "The Black Peter" after Benjamin Vautier, was not completed.

As a reproducing engraver, Barthelmess created a series of copper and steel engravings over the years , mostly based on newer genre images, which testified to the great skill in the use of the engraving and reproduced the originals in the expression and in the treatment of the fabrics. His technically well-versed engravings contributed significantly to the spread of the Düsseldorf School of Painting , because at that time paintings could only be reproduced cheaply with engravings and thus provided information about important artistic trends.

One of his first engravings was "Christ on the Cross" according to Joseph Kehren . For “In the Church” according to Vautier, he received the gold medal in the Paris Salon in 1867 . The steel engraving “The Holiday” after a painting by August Siegert from 1852 was given away to the members of the Potsdamer Kunstverein in 1867/1868, according to the dedication.

Honors

In 1869 Barthelmess received the large gold medal in Munich, as well as one in Berlin, where he was made a member of the Academy of Arts in 1874 . In Brussels he received the Belgian Leopold Order and in Vienna the great gold medal.

Works (selection)

  • Christ on the cross , after Joseph sweeping
  • The holiday , according to August Siegert, from 1852
  • The blind boy , after Hubert Salentin , from 1858
  • In the church , after Benjamin Vautier, from 1858
  • The sermon of the midshipman , after Henry Ritter , from 1852
  • The walkers in front of the gate , after Otto Schwerdgeburth
  • Evening on the Rhine , after Christian Eduard Böttcher , from 1860
  • The funeral feast , after Benjamin Vautier, from 1863
  • Salontiroler , after Franz Defregger , from 1882

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carton manner: a working method of the older engravers (15th and 16th centuries), for whom simple and crosshatching was sufficient, since it was only important for them to reproduce the drawing in the gradations of light and shadow in more delicate or stronger contrasts.
  2. ↑ Official Gazette for the Düsseldorf administrative region , issue No. 55 of June 23, 1846 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Roland Deppe: The Willingshausen painters as a group. Interpretation of expectations of concise role-bearers towards interactions in group processes . kassel university press, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-89958-436-3 , p. 16 ( PDF )
  4. ↑ Potsdamer Kunstverein gives the Potsdam Museum an annual gift: steel engraving “The Holiday” by Nikolaus Barthelmess , press release of December 15, 2011
  5. ↑ Short biography of Nicolas Barthelmess
personal data
SURNAME Barthelmess, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barthelmeß, Nicolaus; Barthelmess, Nikolaus Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1889
Place of death Dusseldorf