Oscar Wichtendahl
Oscar Wichtendahl , also Oskar Wichtendahl , (born October 18, 1860 in Hanover , † April 5, 1933 in Hanover) was a church painter of historicism .
Life
Wichtendahl studied painting and architecture at the art academies in Munich , Berlin and Stuttgart . From 1885 he lived and worked in Hanover and was a member of the board of the aesthetically conservative Hanover Art Association . In the 1880s he went on study trips to Italy , North Africa and the Middle East .
Around 1900 the painter Wichtendahl acquired the “Saline” property in Heyersum . The property later came into the possession of the painter L. Wichtendahl's daughter-in-law (Mrs. Schulz).
1910–1912 he accompanied Johann Albrecht von Mecklenburg on a trip to Asia . In 1922, the House of Braunschweig-Lüneburg appointed him curator of its art collections and administrator of the Welfenmuseum . Wichtendahl had been married to Laura (née Elbers) since 1890.
Wichtendahl's grave can be found in the Engesohde city cemetery .
Works (selection)
Wall paintings in:
- Aerzen , Schwöbber Castle, Knight's Hall (1922/23)
- Buckeburg , palace
- Hall , town hall
- Hanover, Garrison Church on Goetheplatz , memorial mosaic for the fallen
- Hanover, Evangelical St. Luke Church
- Hanover, Protestant monastery church Marienwerder (late 19th century)
- Hanover, Evangelical St. Mark's Church (1905/06)
- Hanover, Protestant Nazareth Church
- Hanover, Protestant Neustädter Church
- Hanover, St. Bernward Catholic Church (1893)
- Hanover, Catholic Church St. Elisabeth (1898–1905)
- Hanover, auditorium of the University of Veterinary Medicine (1899)
- Cologne , boardroom of the Reich Railway Directorate
- Mahlerten , Protestant St. Bartholomew Church (restoration / addition)
- Minden , town hall
- Ratingen , Landsberg Castle (1903/04)
- Wiesbaden , Protestant Market Church (1900)
Mosaics:
- Christ as ruler of the world at the Markuskirche in Hanover, donated by Kaiser Wilhelm II.
literature
- Wichtendahl, Oskar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 510 .
- Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's struggles with modernity in the Weimar Republic. (Under the title Understanding for a Time is perhaps best obtained from her art as a dissertation presented at the University of Hanover) (= Hannoversche Studien, series of publications by the Hanover City Archives , Volume 5.) Hahn, Hanover 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955 -9 , p. 223 f. and more often.
- Hugo Thielen : Wichtendahl, Oscar. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 387.
- Hugo Thielen: Wichtendahl, Oscar. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 675.
- Stefanie Lindemeier: Studies on the history of restoration of medieval vault and wall paintings in the area of today's Lower Saxony. Presentation of historical methods, techniques and materials. Dissertation, Technische Universität Dresden 2008. ( Online version ( Memento from March 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefanie Lindemeier: Studies on the history of restoration of medieval vault and wall paintings in the area of today's Lower Saxony…. P. 323; there also the other stages of life and a catalog raisonné.
- ^ A b Hugo Thielen: Wichtendahl, Oscar. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon …. 2002, p. 387.
- ↑ Stefanie Lindemeier: Studies on the history of restoration of medieval vault and wall paintings in the area of today's Lower Saxony…. P.56.
- ^ Hans-Heinz Emos, Hans-Henning Walter: Old salt pans in Central Europe. On the history of evaporated salt production from the Middle Ages to the present. Deutscher Verlag für Grundstofftindustrie, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-342-00352-9 , p. 126 (restricted view, books.google.de ).
- ↑ Heyersum - Former saltworks . In: Hermann Deckert (Ed.): The art monuments of the province of Hanover . tape 26 : II. Administrative district Hildesheim, 10th district Alfeld, II. The former district Gronau. Theodor Schulze, Hanover 1939, p. 150 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Klaus Mlynek : WILHELM II., Dt. Kaiser, King of Prussia. In: Dirk Böttcher: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 978-3-87706-706-2 , p. 389.
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SURNAME | Wichtendahl, Oscar |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wichtendahl, Oskar |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German church painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1860 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1933 |
Place of death | Hanover |