Otto Arnz

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Franz Otto Arnz (born August 29, 1823 in Düsseldorf , † after 1860 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) was a German illustrator , genre and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life and family

Arnz, son of Maria Catharina Carolina and Heinrich Arnz (1785-1854), a well-known Düsseldorf publisher and printer owner ( Lithographische Anstalt Arnz & Comp. ), Studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he was taught by Wilhelm Schadow , Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Theodor Rated Hildebrandt as a very promising talent. He was not alone in his family with his painterly inclinations: his uncle was the lithographer Josef Arnz (1792–1841). One of his younger brothers, Albert Arnz , was a well-known painter of Italian landscapes, as were his brothers-in-law Oswald Achenbach and Albert Flamm . Another brother-in-law was the history painter Joseph Fay . Like them he was a member of the artists' association Malkasten , of which he is one of the founders. Around 1850 he worked as a painter in Volendam (Netherlands) . He took part in exhibitions in The Hague and Amsterdam . His friendly correspondence with the musician Robert Schumann dates from 1851 and 1853 . Together with his brother Carl (* 1821) Otto took over the Arnz & Comp. Company after their father died in 1854. As early as 1857, in the course of a fraudulent bankruptcy caused by a counterfeit, which was not known until 1858, both brothers left for South America, where they died in Buenos Aires after 1860.

Work (selection)

In contrast to his brother Albert, who as a pupil of Oswald Achenbach is assigned to the late romantic direction of the Düsseldorf School, Otto maintained close contacts with the realistically oriented circle of artists at the Düsseldorf Academy. Nonetheless, Otto used the romantic subjects and techniques of his time in his work .

  • Sailors' life , around 1850
  • In the woods , 1852
  • The golden serpent , 1856
  • Illustrations in: Fairy tales and legends for young and old (together with Joseph Fay, Otto Fikentscher , R. Oppenheim, Gustav Süs and Benjamin Vautier ), Arnz & Comp., Düsseldorf 1857

literature

  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See sailors' lives . In: C. Dräxler-Manfred (Hrsg.): Rheinisches Taschenbuch on the year 1851 . JD Sauerländer's Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1851, p. XXVIII ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Christina Frohn: The organized fool. Carnival in Aachen, Düsseldorf and Cologne 1823–1914 . Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2000, ISBN 978-3-89445-269-8 , p. 167
  3. ↑ Elsbeth Colmi: Splendor and misery of a lithographic establishment. Arnz & Comp. Düsseldorf 1815-1858 . In: Librarian Additional Hours. Dedicated to Joseph Gießler on the occasion of his 65th birthday . Publications of the State and City Library Düsseldorf, Volume 5, Düsseldorf 1964, pp. 44–67
  4. ^ Directory of the collections of the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels , Verlag des Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels, Leipzig 1897, p. 13 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ See Düsseldorf artist album . In: Hans-Ulrich Simon (Ed.): Mörike in the mirror of his letters from publishers, editors and editors . Publications of the German Schiller Society, Volume 48, Verlag Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-7681-9805-7 , p. 164 ff. ( Google Books )
  6. ↑ Searched for from the German Confederation in January 1858 , website in home.foni.net portal (German profile register), accessed on February 16, 2015
  7. ^ Sabine Herder: Arnz & Comp. A lithographic institution between theater and artists . In: Bettina Bäumgärtel: The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its International Impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 284
  8. ↑ Im Walde , illustration, digitized in the digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de portal , accessed on February 16, 2015
  9. ↑ Die goldene Schlange , illustration, digitized in the portal digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de , accessed on February 16, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Arnz, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnz, Franz Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH after 1860
Place of death Buenos Aires