Otto Mengelberg

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Otto Heinrich Mengelberg (born April 1817 in Cologne or Düsseldorf ; † May 28, 1890 in Düsseldorf) was a German history and portrait painter and lithographer of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Otto Heinrich Mengelberg, the second son of the portrait painter and art teacher Egidius Mengelberg and the Elberfeld Protestant Anne Lisette Risse, was born shortly after his parents' wedding, which took place in October 1816. After attending the Jesuit grammar school in Cologne , Mengelberg studied at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1834 to 1842 . There he was first a student of Karl Ferdinand Sohn , later a master student of Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow . In 1842 he went to Munich with his colleague Joseph Fay and returned to his hometown in 1844. He assisted Fay with the painting of the then Elberfeld town hall, today's Von-der-Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal . Also with Fay he created the cardboard boxes for the restoration of the Romanesque windows of St. Kunibert in Cologne . To hold an exhibition, he went to Düsseldorf in 1848, where he settled permanently. He mainly created paintings with historical motifs, but also on biblical themes in the style of the Nazarenes , including altarpieces. After its altarpiece with the resurrection of Christ in the Martin Luther Church in Gütersloh , the church was called the "Resurrection Church" from 1900 to 1933.

The conversion to Protestantism took Mengelberg in 1840. His art political commitment to evangelical churches culminated in a presentation of 19 September 1851 a "Special Meeting" of the Church Congress of Elberfeld , in which he the kind of decoration of Catholic churches since the time of the Reformation as "Disgusting and Jesuit" classified and criticized the reluctance of the Protestant parishes in the design of their places of worship as fearful and suspicious " indifferentism ". With the aim of creating "Protestant art" through the "Reformation of Christian art", he announced a plan to found an "Association for religious art in the Protestant Church", whereupon the conference, after a lively discussion, decided to create a " Evangelical Church Art Association ”. Mengelberg's strong interest in Protestantism was also expressed in the 1850s when he created a portrait of Melanchthon .

In addition to these disputes about religion and art, Otto Mengelberg gained art historical significance as a private teacher for Scandinavian painters. Private lessons with him:

family

Mengelberg was the son of the painter Egidius Mengelberg and his wife Anna Lisetta Risse. The glass painter Otto Mengelberg (1868–1934) was the son of Mengelberg's cousin, the sculptor Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg . The sculptor Otto Mengelberg (1841-1891) was also a cousin Mengelberg and brother of the sculptor Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg.

Works (selection)

Death of Moses , 1836
The Return of the Prodigal Son , 1848
painting
Illustrations

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Alexander Müller: Mengelberg, Otto . In: Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 364 ( retrobibliothek.de ).
  2. ↑ First pray! In: The Gazebo . Issue 33, 1816, pp. 516-518 ( full text [ Wikisource ]). "Mengelberg's (born 1817 in Düsseldorf) art movement was previously a strictly biblical-religious [...]"
  3. ^ Invitation to the public examinations of the students at the Jesuit grammar school in Cologne. Cologne am Rhein 1829, p. 44 ( books.google.de ).
  4. ^ German art and monument preservation. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1952, p. 111.
  5. ↑ Otto Mengelberg: The fine arts in the Protestant church. In: Flying leaves from the rough house at Horn near Hamburg. Organ of the Central Committee for the Internal Mission of the German Evangelical Church. VIII. Series, No. 28, December 1851, p. 372 ff. ( Books.google.de ).
  6. ↑ Wilhelm Hammer: The Melanchtonforschung through the centuries. A descriptive directory. Sources and research on the history of the Reformation, Volume 49, Verlagshaus G. Mohn, Gütersloh 1981, ISBN 978-3-579-01733-4 , p. 449.
  7. ↑ Kathrin Reining: The figure of the biblical Judith in 19th century art - from the heroine to the femme fatale. Master's thesis, University of Augsburg, undated , p. 38 ( vdg-weimar.de PDF).
  8. ↑ Mengelberg, Otto - The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1848 , website in the stiftung-volmer.de portal , accessed on April 26, 2016.
  9. ↑ Figure ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2016 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. in the portal rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de , accessed on April 26, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de
  10. ↑ Christian art paper for church, school and home . Verlag von Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1860, p. 54 ( books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Mengelberg, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mengelberg, Otto Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history and portrait painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne or Düsseldorf
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1890
Place of death Dusseldorf