Otto Heyden

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Otto Johann Heinrich Heyden (born July 8, 1820 in Ducherow ( Western Pomerania ), † September 21, 1897 in Göttingen ) was a German painter .

Life

Memorial plaque on Heyden's birthplace, the rectory in Ducherow

Otto Heyden was the son of the preacher Johann Bernhard Heyden and his wife Dorothea, the eldest daughter of the mayor Johann Balthasar Pütter (1751-1818) in Gützkow .

He attended the Stralsund high school and graduated from high school here at Michaelis in 1840. Afterwards, at the request of his parents, he began to study theology in Greifswald and Berlin , but in 1843 he switched to the Berlin Art Academy . There he became a student of professors Karl Wilhelm Wach and August von Kloeber . With their recommendations, Heyden later became a student in Léon Cogniet's studio in Paris .

From 1850 Heyden lived in Italy for four years; mostly in Rome and near Naples . It was there that the preparatory work for his first larger work, Job, Surrounded by His Friends (1855), which was bought by the Szczecin Museum, was carried out. In addition, Heyden created numerous portraits and landscapes. In 1854 he returned to Berlin and set up as a freelance artist. On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the University of Greifswald , he donated a monumental painting that shows the founding ceremony in Greifswald's Nikolaikirche and is now on display in the Pomeranian State Museum.

During the German-Austrian War in 1866, he switched from history painting to depicting historical events that he had personally experienced. Several battle paintings were created on this basis. In 1869 Heyden undertook an extensive study trip to and through Egypt, as a result of which he made a series of pictures depicting street life in Cairo . Heyden experienced the Franco-German War in the headquarters of the V Army Corps under Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm . During the war, Heyden created many watercolors and portraits - almost on the side.

Otto Heyden was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Greifswald in 1854 . He was appointed court painter and honored with the title of Royal Prussian professor .

Otto Heyden died in Göttingen on September 21, 1897 at the age of 77. He was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg near Berlin. The grave has not been preserved.

Works (selection)

  • Duke Wartislaw IX. hands over to Dr. Heinrich Rubenow the scepter , painted and donated in 1856 for the four hundredth anniversary of the University of Greifswald , art collection of the university, exhibited in the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald
  • Bogislaw X. ambushed by pirates on his pilgrimage to Jerusalem (in 1922 in the Szczecin Museum)
  • Field Marshal Schwerin at the Battle of Prague (in the Berlin Palace)
  • The meeting of the Crown Prince and Prince Friedrich Karl
  • The intervention of the second army in the battle of Königgrätz
  • The king hands over the order Pour le Mérite to the Crown Prince and
  • The victorious king, jubilantly surrounded by his troops (1868, Berlin National Gallery)
  • Portrait of Otto von Bismarck
  • Portrait of Hellmuth von Moltke , in Königsberg Castle since 1870 , missing since 1945
  • Portrait of Heinrich von Steinmetz , in Monbijou Castle since 1870 , missing since 1945
  • The composer Heinrich Hofmann , Prussian Academy of the Arts , missing since 1945
  • Self-portrait , National Gallery, acquired in 1915, missing since 1945
  • Carpet bazaar in Cairo
  • A Bedouin horse and camel market in Cairo
  • On the banks of the Nile near Cairo
  • Street life in Cairo
  • Apollo with the muses and graces
  • Christ with Maria and Martha in the church in Jasenitz
  • The last supper
  • Julie, Felix and Margarete von Behr , in the Lindenau Museum since 1954

  • Duke Wartislaw IX. hands over to Dr. Heinrich Rubenow the scepter

  • Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm

  • Carpet bazaar in Cairo

literature

  • Sylva van der Heyden: Heyden, Otto Johann Heinrich In: Savoy, Bénédicte and Nerlich, France (Hrsg.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015.
  • Otto Holtze: Otto Heyden. In: Pommersche Lebensbilder I. Saunier, Stettin 1934, pp. 190–196.
  • Karl Siebert:  Heyden, Otto . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, p. 784 f.
  • Karl Siebert: Heyden, Otto Johann Heinrich in: Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of Visual Artists , Volume 24, Leipzig 1924, p. 24
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 4205 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ School program 1840 , p. 40
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 303.
  3. ^ Entry in the Lost Art database
  4. ^ Entry in the Lost Art database
  5. ^ Entry in the Lost Art database
  6. ^ Entry in the Lost Art database
  7. ↑ Restoration sponsors wanted ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 8, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lindenau-museum.de
personal data
SURNAME Heyden, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heyden, Otto Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Ducherow , Western Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1897
Place of death Goettingen