Otto von Ernst

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Otto von Ernst (born July 10, 1853 in Thorn , Province of Prussia , † May 29, 1925 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape , hunting and still life painter .

Life

Von Ernst studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1869 to 1874 . There Andreas and Karl Müller , Heinrich Lauenstein , Wilhelm Lotz and Ernst Giese were his teachers. He then studied under Albert Baur the Elder. Ä. and Albert Brendel at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar .

Around 1885 he followed with numerous painters from Europe, each specializing in landscape, historical, and - like Otto von Ernst - the representation of horses, an offer by the German entrepreneur William Wehner to collaborate on panoramas and circular paintings in a studio in Milwaukee , Wisconsin. Wehner's "American Panorama Company" created from 1885 under the direction of August Lohr and Friedrich Wilhelm Heine panoramas and circular paintings, depicting battles of the American Civil War, such as "The Storming of Missionary Ridge" and "The Battle of Atlanta" and finally also to religious themes such as "Jerusalem on the Day of the Crucifixion". When Wehner's studio closed in 1887 due to a lack of demand for such paintings, von Ernst took over a teaching position at the "Milwaukee Art School" founded in 1882; in whose line he was replaced in 1888 by Richard Lorenz (1858–1915). The following are named as pupils of Otto von Ernst: Mathilda Georgina Schley (1864–1941) and Louis Mayer (1869–1969). Together with Gustav Wendling and Paul Wilhelmi , von Ernst founded the art school "New Academy of Fine Arts" in Detroit in 1887.

On December 26, 1888 married Otto von Ernst and Elizabeth Frederica Pabst (born June 2, 1865), daughter of Captain Frederick Pabst , owner of the Pabst Brewing Company in Milwaukee, and his wife Marie, née Best (1842-1906). The honeymoon took the couple to Europe. They then moved into a house specially designed for their daughter by the architect Alfred Charles Clas (1859–1942), and Ernst contributed to two murals on the interior of the house. Elizabeth von Ernst died in 1891 at the age of 22, shortly after the birth of her first child, Elsbeth. Frederick Pabst left his granddaughter a million dollars in 1904.

After the woman's death, von Ernst returned to Düsseldorf without his daughter and renouncing his rights, where he established himself as an animal and landscape painter. He became a member of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft , the artists' association Malkasten - because of his stay in the USA he got the nickname "Buffalo Bill" - and the Düsseldorf Masonic Lodge "To the three allies".

Otto von Ernst participated in numerous exhibitions, including in Düsseldorf (4th general German art exhibition in 1880: "On the trail"), Munich (International art exhibition in 1883: "Rendez-vous for fox hunting. Men and women at the forest border"), Berlin (Royal Academy: 1880, 1882; Jubilee Art Exhibition 1886: “Rendez-vous zur Fuchsjagd”, catalog image; Large art exhibition: 1899, 1900, 1902 “Saujagd”, 1903, 1910, 1911). In 1888 he was represented at the address 205 Grand Avenue, Milwaukee, at the "Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture" in Chicago with two paintings: 159. "Before Dinner" ($ 3000) and 289. "Before Supper" ($ 500 ).

Works (selection)

  • Düsseldorf, Malkasten: 3 landscape studies; Drawings: "Palace ruins", pen drawing, 1869; “Widdendorf bei Bergheim”, pencil, approx. 1891; "Königshoven", pencil, 1891
  • Wuppertal, Von der Heydt Museum: "Courting grouse"
  • "Parforce hunt" (Boetticher, No. 1)
  • "Lady on Horseback in a Park" (Boetticher, No. 4)
  • “Boar on the run”; afterwards wood engraving, ca.1898
  • “In the horse stable”, 1876: art trade
  • “Surf on a rocky coast”, 1883: art trade
  • “Hunting still life with pheasants”, 1902: art trade

literature

  • Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history . I-1, Dresden 1891.
  • Dressler's art manual 1913.
  • Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): Pictures and painters in the countries on the Rhine . Düsseldorf 1913.
  • Ernst, Otto von . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 8 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists , prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Volume 2. Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / Main 1921.
  • Porter F. Butts: Art in Wisconsin, (…) including the Catalog of the Wisconsin Centennial art exhibition . Madison (WI), 1936, pp. 131, 180.
  • Emanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Volume III, 1950.
  • Frances Stover: The Panorama Painters' Days of Glory . In: Historical Messenger of Milwaukee County Historical Society, June, 1956, pp. 2-7.
  • Uta Laxner-Gerlach (arrangement): From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal. Catalog of 19th Century Paintings , 1974.
  • Sabine Schroyen (arrangement): Sources on the history of the artists' association Malkasten. A center of bourgeois art and culture in Düsseldorf since 1848 . Cologne 1992.
  • Peter C. Merrill: German-American Artists in Early Milwaukee: A Biographical Dictionary . Friends of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 1997.
  • Siegfried Weiß : Ernst, Otto von . In: Hans Paffrath , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule . Vol. 1, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , p. 331, Fig .: "Palace ruins on the forest-lined pond", washed pen drawing, 1869 (Düsseldorf, artists' association Malkasten).
  • Peter C. Merrill: German-American Painters in Wisconsin: Fifteen Biographical Essays . (7) Hans-Dieter Heinz: Otto von Ernst: The Life of a German Academic Artist in Milwaukee . Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 978-3-88099-638-0 , p. 15.
  • Cheryl Elaine Brookshear: An Interpretation of the Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion: The Response Based Approach. A Thesis in Historic Preservation . Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See nos. 3151–3163 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
  2. ↑ * April 27, 1847 in Lingen ; † February 19, 1928 in Palo Alto ; in the USA since 1865
  3. ↑ he founded the "Society of Milwaukee Artists" in 1900
  4. ^ Hannah Heidi Levi: Famous Wisconsin Artists and Architects , Badger Books Inc., Oregon, WI, 2004, p. 75
  5. ^ Peter C. Merrill: German-American painters in Wisconsin . German-American Studies, Volume 16, Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 978-3-88099-638-0 , p. 15
  6. ↑ Milwaukee Journal, Aug. 24, 1889, p. 8
  7. ↑ Brookshear 2000, p. 17
  8. ↑ "one million dollars" (approximately $ 27.4 million in 2014) worth of company stock (at a time when the average working class salary was about $ 600 per year or approximately $ 16,500 in 2014)
  9. ^ Pabst - Von Ernst House, 3413 West Wells St., Milwaukee, WI: https://www.tourdeforce360.com/hcni_tour/von-ernst-house/#sthash.vCDWKGlw.dpbs
  10. ↑ https://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=25
  11. ↑ Elsbeth was adopted by her grandparents and lived in 3413 West Wells St., Milwaukee, until her grandmother's death in 1906. She died in 1972
  12. ↑ Brookshear 2000, pp. 28, 52
  13. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on November 19, 2017
  14. ↑ Malkasten-Festschrift 1948, p. 172
  15. ^ Art Institute of Chicago (eds.), Peter H. Falk, Andrea Ansell Glenn (arr.): The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (1888-1950) , 1990
personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape, hunting and still life painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Thorn , Province of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1925
Place of death Dusseldorf