Oswald Sickert

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Self-portrait, around 1844

Oswald Adalbert Sickert (born February 21, 1828 in Altona , † November 11, 1885 in London ) was a Danish - German painter .

life and work

Sickert was the son of the painter Johann Jürgen Sickert from Flensburg and grew up in Altona, where he received drawing reports from Carl Friedrich Kroymann at the Sunday school. At the age of 16, his father brought him to Copenhagen in September 1844, where he was a student of Johann Ludwig Lund and Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg at the Royal Danish Academy of Art until 1846 . In April 1847 he moved to the Munich Art Academy . From 1852 to 1854 he worked in Hamburg as a portraitist and illustrator for the humorous weekly magazine Asmodi . In 1854 he went to Paris for half a year as an apprentice of the painter Thomas Couture , where he a. a. associated with his compatriots Christian Carl Magnussen and Moritz Delfs . His father gave him the recommendation on the way: "Paint well and quickly". After his return from Paris he worked in Munich for nine years as a draftsman for the Flying Leaves . Since 1854 Sickert had a complicated friendship with the Englishwoman Eleanor Henry, whom he married in 1859 on a trip to London. The son Walter Sickert was born in Munich on May 31, 1860 , later one of the most important impressionists in England. Another son, Bernhard Sickert , also became a painter. His parents' circle of friends included the painters Caesar Willich , Victor Müller and Wilhelm Füssli , whom Sickert knew from Paris. The Sickerts ran a hospitable house in which the members of the English colony in Munich also frequented, including Edward Wilberforce and the anthropologist Heinrich Ranke , who had worked for several years as a doctor at the German Hospital in London.

In 1868, Oswald Sickert emigrated to England with his family because he feared that his sons would have to do military service after Schleswig-Holstein, to which his birthplace Altona belonged, had become a Prussian province. Sickert allowed himself to be naturalized and lived in London, first in Notting Hill and later in Kensington. He created a number of dramatic works of painting and was a genre and landscape painter and regularly worked at the Dudley Gallery and occasionally at the Royal Academy of Arts . Sickert and his wife were highly musical and gave house concerts in which the painter Otto Scholderer , whom he had also known since his studies in Paris, took part. Scholderer created a portrait of Oswald Sickert (Hamburger Kunsthalle) around 1876. The guests at the Sickert house included a group that united the idea of ​​socialism, including the writers Henry Hyndman , Oscar Wilde , George Bernhard Shaw and the painters William Holman Hunt , Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris with their wives.

literature

Web links

Commons : Oswald Sickert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ France Nerlich, Bénédicte Savoy (ed.), Pariser Lehrjahre - A Lexicon for the Training of German Painters in the French Capital, Vol. 2: 1844-1870, pp. 245 f.
  2. ↑ Anna Gruetzner Robins, Walter Sickert -. The complete Writings on Art Oxford 2000, p.435.
  3. ^ Evelyn Lehmann, Der Frankfurter Maler Victor Müller, Frankfurt.M., 1976, p. 211 f.
  4. ↑ Denys Sutton, Walter Sickert - a Biograph, London 1976, p. 19th
  5. ↑ Jutta M. Bagdahn, Otto Franz Scholderer, Diss. Freiburg 2002, No. 158
personal data
SURNAME Sickert, Oswald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sickert, Oswald Adalbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish-German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1885
Place of death London