Paul Heinecken

Paul Heinecken , also Heineken (born December 9, 1674 in Riga , † 1746 in Lübeck ) was a German painter, draftsman and architect and the father of a highly regarded child prodigy .

Life

Paul Heinecken was a son of the Riga city architect ( city mason ) Hinrich Henicke (Hänicke, Hönnicken, * 1639/40 in Plön (?), † May 1705 Riga) , who came from Holstein . He gained his first knowledge of architectural drawing from his father and then came to Lübeck as a student of Karl Krieg . From Lübeck he traveled to Venice and Rome , where he made some of the drawings that he published in 1727. He attained as portrayer in February 1707 Lübeck civil rights and, after some back and forth from Lübeck Council in May 1707 Contra celebration and free master admitted. He lived in a house on Königstrasse in a central location in the Lübeck region .

In his 1727 Augsburg publication Lucidum prospectivæ Speculum, Das ist: A bright mirror of perspective , he showed himself to be an architectural painter and master of perspective . The work with drafts and full drawings of ceiling paintings, capitals, altars, tombs and some polyhedra offers a fundamental introduction to perspective theory and is now considered one of the most beautiful comprehensive 'monumental' treatises written in the eighteenth century.It was often used by painters as a textbook used to study perspective.

In Lübeck, probably to improve his income, he ran a coffee shop in the house he lived in on the corner of Königstraße and Johannisstraße (today's house number: 41, corner of Dr.-Julius-Leber-Straße ), which became a sociable meeting place in the city and also served as a stage for traveling comedians. Georg Philipp Telemann and Christian Ludwig Liscow were among their guests. The coffee house existed long after his death until 1861 under the name Harmonie .

Paul Heinecken also worked as a miniature and enamel painter; Ismael Mengs and Johann Harper were his students. According to the tradition of his son Carl Heinrich von Heineken, both benefit from the chemistry practiced very strongly in the Heinecken house in perfecting enamel painting. In 1724 Harper painted a portrait of the younger son Heinecken, the Lübeck child prodigy. Paul Heinecken created the template for the engraving by Christian Fritzsch based on the painting by his wife .

Opera am Gänsemarkt , detail from Paul Heinecken's 1726 cityscape of Hamburg

A plan of Hamburg was created (around 1721), a prospectus from the Alster (1726/27) and a general view from the south (around 1730)

family

After acquiring Lübeck citizenship in 1707, Heinecken married the Lübeck painter Catharina Elisabeth, b. Austria , a daughter of the painter Franz Oesterreich and stepdaughter of his teacher Karl Krieg. The ennobled art collector and art historian Carl Heinrich von Heineken and the child prodigy Christian Henrich Heineken were their sons.

Fonts

Lucidum prospectivæ Speculum, that is: A bright mirror of perspective; In what way the basis of this art as well as the manifold application of it which occurs daily in practice is clearly shown by many appropriate examples; Why are eighteen ceilings or ceiling pieces of various types added / The lovers and beginners of this beautiful science put up for the best by Paul Heineken, Mahlern in Lübeck. Augsburg: Jerem. Wolff's soul. Heirs 1727.

2nd edition: Augsburg: JJ Lotter 1753.

literature

Carl Heinrich von Heineken: News from Artists and Art Things. Volume 1. Leipzig, 1768, p. 52 f. ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg : Heinecken, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 292 .
Alken Bruns: Heineken, Paul. In: Alken Bruns: Lübeck CVs. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1993, ISBN 3-529-02729-4 , p. 174 f.

Web links

Commons : Paul Heinecken - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Alken Bruns: Heineken, Paul. In: Lübeck résumés.
↑ different year of death: 1740
↑ the older literature ( Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg ) assumed that he was the son of a painter of the same name who, after completing his apprenticeship in Lübeck in 1674, had not found admission to the painter's office or admission as a freelancer and therefore a position as sexton had accepted in Rehna.
↑ Iduna: a magazine for the youth of both sexes…. Volume 3, Meldau., 1833, p. 350 ( books.google.de ).
↑ Pierre Descargues: Perspective: History, Evolution, Techniques. 1977, ISBN 978-0-8109-1454-4 , pp. 138-144.
^ Martin Kemp: The Science of Art. Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat. Yale University Press, New Haven / London 1990, ISBN 978-0-300-05241-1 , p. 227.
^ History of building and architecture, urban development in Lübeck (PDF), accessed on August 1, 2016; see also Arnfried Edler , Heinrich Wilhelm Schwab: Studies on the music history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1989, p. 114 - incorrectly located in the neighboring house on the other corner of Johannisstrasse Königstrasse 43 (Lübeck) .
↑ digitized version

personal data
SURNAME	Heinecken, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heineken, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, draftsman and architect, as well as the father of a highly regarded child prodigy
DATE OF BIRTH	December 9, 1674
PLACE OF BIRTH	Riga
DATE OF DEATH	1746
Place of death	Lübeck

[Bruns-1] Alken Bruns: Heineken, Paul. In: Lübeck résumés.

[2] rent year of death: 1740

[3] the older literature ( Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg ) assumed that he was the son of a painter of the same name who, after completing his apprenticeship in Lübeck in 1674, had not found admission to the painter's office or admission as a freelancer and therefore a position as sexton had accepted in Rehna.

[4] Iduna: a magazine for the youth of both sexes…. Volume 3, Meldau., 1833, p. 350 ( books.google.de ).

[5] Pierre Descargues: Perspective: History, Evolution, Techniques. 1977, ISBN 978-0-8109-1454-4 , pp. 138-144.

[6] Martin Kemp: The Science of Art. Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat. Yale University Press, New Haven / London 1990, ISBN 978-0-300-05241-1 , p. 227.

[7] History of building and architecture, urban development in Lübeck (PDF), accessed on August 1, 2016; see also Arnfried Edler , Heinrich Wilhelm Schwab: Studies on the music history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1989, p. 114 - incorrectly located in the neighboring house on the other corner of Johannisstrasse Königstrasse 43 (Lübeck) .

[8] tized version