Otto Erdmann (painter)

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Otto Erdmann (1860s)

Otto Wilhelm Eduard Erdmann (* 7. December 1834 in Leipzig , † 9. December 1905 in Dusseldorf ) was a German painter of the Neo-Rococo .

Life

Otto Erdmann received his first drawing lessons at the age of around 14 from the Leipzig lithographer Gustav Schlick . Shortly before the age of sixteen he began studying painting at the Leipzig Academy , where he was taught by Gustav Jäger , Friedrich Wilhelm Brauer and Gustav Adolph Hennig . A year later he moved to the Dresden Academy , where he worked in the painter's studio a. a. studied with Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld , Eduard Robert Bary , Heinrich Gotthold Arnold , Johann Karl Ulrich Bähr and Julius Hübner . After completing his studies, he went to Munich, where he joined the local art association and the artist-singer association and came into contact with Louis von Hagns' Rococo painting . In 1858 Erdmann settled in Düsseldorf , where he became “a specialist for the Rococo era, equipped with a finest sense of fragrance and the delicacy of color”. From then on he almost exclusively painted genre pictures with scenes from this “ gallant ” time. They are characterized by fine humor, a piquant approach and pleasing motifs, which are often located in a courtly milieu .

Erdmann was a member of the Düsseldorf artist association Malkasten . He was a member of the board of this association for several years. He also took an active part in the success of theatrical performances in the Malkasten House . On January 27, 1877, he played the main role Enerique in the " Degen- und Mantelstück " The Daughter of Hidalgo by Edmund Henoumont and on March 28, 1882, the main role Arnaldus in the tragedy Erica , also by Edmund Henoumont. Together with his colleague on the board, Albert Baur , Erdmann presented Adolf Menzel with honorary membership of the Malkasten Artists' Association on his 70th birthday in Berlin in December 1885 . In 1890 he was honored with the gold medal in the category of the best foreign painter at an exhibition in London's Crystal Palace . In 1898 Otto Erdmann, Albert Flamm and Georg Oeder received the Red Eagle Order 4th class on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the painting set .

family

Otto Erdmann was born in Leipzig as the son of the chemist and three-time rector of the University of Leipzig Otto Linné Erdmann and his wife Clara, née Jungnickel. From 1843 the Erdmann family lived in the newly built Fridericianum , a university building built by Albert Geutebrück , which housed the father's teaching and research rooms as well as the collection of the Leipzig Museum of Antiquities. He was the youngest of four children. His two older brothers were Karl Ludwig Erdmann, legal scholar and advocate in Leipzig and Arthur Bernhard Erdmann , medical advisor and grand master of the Freemason Lodge in Dresden Erdmann's sister Cora was the mother of the German-Swiss painter Clara Grosch (1863-1932), who from 1902 with her husband, the landscape painter Jakob Wagner (1861–1915) from Gelterkinden , Switzerland , ran a joint studio in Locarno . Otto Erdmann married Franziska Hubertina Franken in 1864, the daughter of the Düsseldorf genre painter and Malkasten member Theodor Franken (1811–1876). After the early death of his first wife, Erdmann married her sister, 17 years younger than Elisabeth Franken (1872–1901), in 1872. The couple remained childless.

Works (selection)

Erdmann's pictures were shown regularly at numerous academic and international art exhibitions. Some of his paintings were donated or purchased to museums and public art collections during his lifetime, such as the Städtische Gemäldesammlung Düsseldorf, the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and the gallery of the Woburn Public Library in Massachusetts , USA. Pictures by Erdmann were also purchased as an inventory of the Wiesbaden city palace and for furnishing public facilities.

Today, there are works by Erdmann in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Braunschweig and the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig , the Lowe Art Museum in Miami , USA, the Shipley Art Gallery in northern England Gateshead and in the collection of the Pabst Mansion in the US Milwaukee in State of Wisconsin

  • The Groom's Reception (1860)
  • The engagement ring (1862)
  • The Blind Man's Game (1863)
  • The Happy Advertisement (1864)
  • The Talented Kidner (1865)
  • The Bride Show (1866)
  • The Secret Message (1870)
  • The Interrupted Piano Lesson (1870)
  • The oracle of love (1875)
  • The Casual Thief (1884)
  • The opening of the will (1886)
  • The bouquet of roses (1893)
  • Preparations for the masquerade ball (1900)

literature

Web links

Commons : Otto Erdmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. OA: At the family table. The Roccocomaler , in: At home. A German family paper with illustrations , vol. 5 (1870), p. 688.
  2. List of the works of fine arts publicly exhibited at the KS Akademie der Künste Dresden on July 13, 1851 , ed. from the Academy of Arts Dresden, Dresden 1851, p. 28.
  3. List of the works of fine arts publicly exhibited at the KS Akademie der Künste Dresden on July 13, 1851 , ed. from the Academy of Arts Dresden, Dresden 1851, p. 28.
  4. ^ Adolf Rosenberg : From the Düsseldorf School of Painting . Studies and sketches . Leipzig 1890, p. 43.
  5. Inventory list of the Malkasten artists' association (as of 07/2005) in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on September 16, 2013.
  6. Title recording The daughter of Hildalgo in the portal digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de , accessed on September 16, 2013.
  7. ^ Title recording Erica in the portal digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de , accessed on September 16, 2013.
  8. ^ Edmund Henoumont was a captain a. D. and with Otto Erdmann belonged to the "Kaiserfest-Comité des Künstlerverein 'Malkasten'", which in 1877 prepared for Wilhelm I's visit to the "Malkasten" artists' house. - See: Bernhard Endrulat: An imperial festival in the “Malkasten” in Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf 1878, p. 20, (digitized version) .
  9. From the history of the artists' association Malkasten. To the jubilee of its 50th anniversary 1848–1898, ed. from the artists' association Malkasten, Düsseldorf 1898, p. 77.
  10. ^ The Illustrated London News, May 17, 1890, p. 630.
  11. Staff news . In: Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe , NF 9, 1898, issue 32, p. 521 (digitized version)
  12. At home. German Family Gazette, July 23, 1870 . Volume 6, No. 43. Leipzig 1870, p. 688.
  13. ^ Otto Linné Erdmann in: Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig . Published by the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, Historical Seminar of the University of Leipzig. Leipzig 2016.
  14. ^ Lothar Beyer / Horst Remane: Justus von Liebig to Otto Linné Erdmann - commented on letters from 1836 to 1848, Leipzig 2016, p. 222.
  15. Brothers shake hands , Michael Lang-Alsvik, Link: https://de.scribd.com/doc/215026737/Bruder-reich-die-Hand-zum-Bunde
  16. ^ Jakob Wagner , in the personal dictionary of the canton of Basel-Landschaft
  17. Marriage notice. In: Leipziger Zeitung , No. 206, August 30, 1864
  18. ^ Moritz Blanckarts: Düsseldorf artist. Necrologists from the last ten years, Stuttgart 1877, p. 116.
  19. ^ Saur: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples, vol. 34, Munich / Leipzig 2002, pp. 292–293
  20. Directory of the works of art in the municipal painting collection in Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 21 https://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ihd/periodical/pageview/3746745
  21. ^ Directory of the paintings in the City Museum Wallraf-Richartz zu Cöln, Cologne 1903, p. 224
  22. Annual Report of the Government of the City of Woburn for the year 1913, Woburn 1914, p. 200.
  23. Gerd Bartoschek: Destroyed - Kidnapped - Lost. The losses of the Prussian castles in World War II, ed. vd Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens, Berlin-Brandenburg 2004, p. 161.
  24. ^ Nauhaus, Julia M .: The painting collection of the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig. Complete inventory and loss documentation, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2009, p. 132.
  25. Dietulf Sander: Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig. Catalog of the paintings, ed. v. Herwig Guratzsch ud Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, p. 45.
  26. https://emuseum1.as.miami.edu/people/2428/otto-erdmann/objects
  27. ^ Andrew Ellis, Sonia Roe: Oil paintings in public ownership in Tyne & Wear museums, ed. v. Public Catolougue Foundation, London 2008, p. 29. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-music-lesson-35499
  28. John C. East Mountain: The Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion: An Illustrated History, ed. v. Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion, Milwaukee 2009, p. 268.