Nikolaus Drexel
Nikolaus Drexel (born March 2, 1795 in Fischen im Allgäu , † November 21, 1851 in Immenstadt im Allgäu ) was a German painter and lithographer . He worked in Immenstadt in the Allgäu and mainly created portraits and church art.
Life and works
Drexel started as a fifteen-year-old student in April 1810 to study "Figure Painting" at the Munich Art Academy. The register book notes on his origin “Imenstadt im Algei”, but does not contain any information about his parents, his denomination or similar. However, another source indicates that he was a son of the baker Anton Drexel, who immigrated to Immenstadt from Fischen was. “He developed”, it is said here, “to a very good portraitist, who portrayed simple people as well as people from the nobility or society. At the same time he was a sought-after artist for altarpieces and other paintings of sacred content [...] Nicolaus Drexel can be seen as "the" pioneer for lithography in the Oberallgäu. In this new kind of art he became the teacher and sponsor of Xaver Glötzle , the founder of the “ Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt ”. “Drexel probably inspired Glötzle primarily to paint views of the area around Immenstadt. Gunther le Maire offers further details on Drexel's biography: His mother Katharina, geb. Kling came from Ried bei Fischen. The couple bought the house at Bräuhausstrasse 2 in Immenstadt in 1812, but the shop was located at Bahnhofstrasse 1, the later residence of their son Nikolaus. One of his teachers in Munich was Peter von Langer , and Drexel exhibited a Christ in the grave at the academy exhibition in 1817 .
In 1815 he created an altarpiece for the chapel in Gopprechts , the following year reliquary tablets for the Loreto chapel in Bühl am Alpsee for the saints Kreszentius and Candida. In 1817 he recorded a rest at the summit of numerous people in an ink drawing, and a portrait of the major of the Landwehr FA Hoess also dates from 1817. A rosary ceremony was originally intended as a picture for a side altar in the parish church in Immenstadt. The picture, which was created in 1818, is now on the gallery. The side altars of St. Nicholas show in the predella representations of the Magi and the Entombment of Christ. Drexel created these paintings in 1843. In 1849 he created a painting for the city flags of Immenstadt.
The people portrayed by Drexel included the Immenstadt municipal administrator Heim, the wife of the country doctor von Missen in 1829 , Caroline and Ulrich Christoph Gradmann, both of whom he painted in 1832, the Engelwirt Geiss and his wife, the pastor Pius Langenmeyer, and the brewer's wife Theresa Klara Hoess , a Count von Rechberg-Rothenlöwen and a Countess von Rechberg, both painted in 1847, and Drexel's mother.
Drexel painted pictures for churches and chapels in Tiefenbach, Oberstaufen , Schönau, Balderschwang and Seifriedsberg , the latter have not been preserved.
Drexel came from landscape painting to lithography.
Works in public collections
The Basel Historical Museum owns a Tripet-Locher family portrait from 1817 by a Nicolaus Drexel, which Siegbert Eckel assigned to the Immenstadt painter.
The Westallgäuer Heimatmuseum owns at least 38 Drexel's works. They come from the collection of Ignaz Dornach, who manufactured tobacco in Weiler in the Lindau district and was one of the founders of the West Allgäu local history museum.
Several portraits by Drexel's hand can be found in the Hofmühle Museum in Immenstadt . Among them is a portrait of Ms. Geiss from 1834. Ms. Geiss was the landlady of the Engel inn in Immenstadt and was portrayed with a golden wheel hood and in a Biedermeier dress. The Portrait of Theresa Clare Hoess from 1835, which is in the same museum, painted Drexel probably after an assisted by Joseph Hauber . Theresa Klara Hoess was the wife of the brewery owner Franz Anton Hoess . In the painting she wears a bolt cap and puffed sleeves ; the attached book is supposed to identify her as an educated woman. In addition, the aforementioned summit rest drawing from 1817 and the portrait of Major Hoess are also in this museum. It also preserves some of Drexel's lithographs. B. show the Grünten .
The Immenstadt City Archives have several sketches by Drexel for altarpieces, some of which have not been preserved, as well as other sketches.
Drexel's works were shown in Immenstadt in the winter of 2014/15 as part of the exhibition Die Südliche 2014 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scan of the matriculation book on daten.digitale-sammlungen.de , Drexel is listed as Nicolaus Drexel under no. 109.
- ^ Artist, merchant, mayor at www.all-in.de
- ↑ Walter de Gruyter: General artist lexicon. Walter de Gruyter, 1983, ISBN 978-3-598-22740-0 , p. 205 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ↑ a b c d e f Gunther le Maire, nudes, altars and the police hour. The landscape and portrait painter Nikolaus Drexel was a respected man in Immenstadt and yet received an advertisement , in: Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt , May 6, 2006, p. 45 ( digitized version )
- ^ Andreas Tacke , image sources on southern German art of the 18th and 19th centuries. Century and the history of the Munich Art Academy , in: Kunstchronik 51, 1998, pp. 381–384 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Teacher's manual. Tell me who I am - portraits in the Museum Hofmühle , downloadable from museum-hofmühle.de
- ↑ Die Südliche 2014 on www.kulturgemeinschaft-oberallgäu.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drexel, Nicholas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1795 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fishing in the Allgäu |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1851 |
| Place of death | Immenstadt in the Allgäu |