Peter Burnitz

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Peter Burnitz, portrayed by Hans Thoma (1875)
Taunus landscape

Carl Peter Burnitz (born January 14, 1824 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 18, 1886 there ) was a German lawyer and painter .

Live and act

Burnitz was the son of the businessman Carl Friedrich Burnitz and his wife Auguste Wilhelmine Saltzwedel. Burnitz became an orphan at the age of nine (the mother died in 1831, the father in 1833). The architect Rudolf Burnitz , his guardian and uncle, took care of his upbringing . Burnitz completed the Urban High School and enrolled in the same year at the University of Berlin for the subject Jura . In 1844 he moved to Göttingen in the same subject and went to Heidelberg in 1845 . Burnitz successfully completed his studies there in 1847 with a doctorate .

In the summer of 1847 Burnitz undertook a trip through Italy , which took him via Rome and Naples to Palermo . In late autumn 1852 he returned to Frankfurt. Instead of striving for a career as a lawyer, he went on another study trip: to Algiers and on to Madrid . There he met a friend of his guardian, the painter Fritz Bamberger . He and his colleague Eduard Gerhardt recommended Paris to the young artist . With their recommendations Burnitz later made the acquaintance of the lithographer Karl Bodmer , who soon introduced him to the Barbizon school . He was most deeply inspired there by Charles-François Daubigny and Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot . But Burnitz also learned from Emile Lambinet .

In 1857 Burnitz returned to Frankfurt. Soon after he made friends with Anton Burger and Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann , he decided to move to Kronberg . Like his friends, he joined the local painters' colony .

The more violent the criticism's attacks on Burnitz, the more often his pictures received awards. At the International Art Exhibition in Munich in 1869 Burnitz was shown with three depictions of landscapes and was awarded a gold medal.

At the age of 50, Burnitz married the widow Susanna Christiane Heerdt, born on April 1, 1873. Müller, only daughter of the Frankfurt lawyer and politician Samuel Gottlieb Müller and his wife Susanna Wilhelmine, b. Lochner, a sister of the Aachen cloth manufacturer Johann Friedrich Lochner . His wife was first married to the wine grower Balthasar Heerdt, who died in 1870 and with whom she had four children. Peter Burnitz had two daughters and a son with her:

  • Helene Burnitz (born November 23, 1873; † NN)
  • Rudolf Hans Burnitz (born September 8, 1875 in Frankfurt; † 1929 Berchtesgaden ), painter
  • Bertha Burnitz (born September 3, 1877; † NN) ⚭ 1906 Karl von Loehr ( architect , born January 29, 1875 in Mainz , † August 28, 1958 in Kronberg , Taunus )

In 1878 he acquired a representative multi-storey town house in Untermainanlage 5, one of the best locations in Frankfurt on the ramparts. He never lived in this house himself. One of the most famous tenants was the painter Eduard von Steinle . The house has been preserved to this day and has been extensively renovated by the current owner, the Polytechnic Society Foundation, founded in 2005 .

Burnitz died on August 18, 1886 in Frankfurt am Main at the age of 62. He is buried in the main cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • Paysage; souvenir du Morvan. Whereabouts unknown (Salon 1857, No. 412)
  • La mare à Piat (forêt de Fontainebleau). Whereabouts unknown (ibid., No. 413)
  • Self-portrait of the painter in a landscape . Paper, mounted on cardboard, 22.3 × 27.5 cm, Historisches Museum Frankfurt , Inv. No. B 1799
  • Motifs from the Frankfurt city forest. Until 2019: Historical Museum Frankfurt; then restitution to the heirs of Hermann Netter
  • French village. 1851–1857, cardboard, 23 × 31.5 cm. Städel Museum , Frankfurt, Inv. No. SG 1185
  • Forest part near Cronberg
  • River landscape
  • On the banks of the Nied
  • Tisza bank
  • Blue day

literature

  • Alexandra Enzensberger: Burnitz, Karl Peter In: Savoy, Bénédicte and Nerlich, France (Ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015.
  • Robert Diehl:  Burnitz, Karl Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 56 ( digitized version ).
  • F. Fried: Peter Burnitz, a Frankfurt master. In: Frankfurter Zeitung. No. 276 of October 6, 1900.
  • Wilhelm Kaulen: joys and sorrows in the life of German artists. Winter, Frankfurt am Main 1878.
  • Leopold Levis: Peter Burnitz. A contribution to the history of painting in the nineteenth century in Frankfurt am Main. Dissertation, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 1937
  • Heinrich Weizsäcker:  Burnitz, Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 397 f.
  • Heinrich Weizsäcker (ed.): Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main in the 19th century. Baer, ​​Frankfurt am Main.
    • 1. Frankfurt art life in the 19th century. 1907.
    • 2. Biographical Lexicon of Frankfurt Artists in the 19th Century. 1909.

Web links

Commons : Peter Burnitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

notes

  1. ↑ https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/kultur/spaete-rechte-4/
personal data
SURNAME Burnitz, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burnitz, Carl Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1886
Place of death Frankfurt am Main