Peter Conrad Schreiber
Peter Conrad Schreiber (born August 11, 1816 in Fürth , † February 17, 1894 in Nuremberg ) was a German painter.
Life
After school and technical training in his native Fürth, the artistically gifted Peter Conrad Schreiber attended the royal arts and crafts school in Nuremberg from May 1833 to July 1834 - "consistently and with great success", as the director of the school, Albert Christoph Reindel , attested. Probably through Reindel's mediation, Schreiber became a student of the landscape painter Carl Blechen , who was already legendary at that time, at the Berlin Academy of the Arts (at that time the Prussian Academy of the Arts ). At the same time he belonged to the private group of students of the Berlin landscape painter Wilhelm Schirmer . As a Schirmer student, Schreiber also took part in the exhibitions at the Berlin Academy of the Arts: in 1836, 1838 and 1839. Carl Blechen probably inspired him to travel to the Harz Mountains, which was an important theme in Schreiber's early work. Wilhelm Schirmer, however, "instilled [him] the longing for Italy", which was to determine his later major work.
From the autumn of 1837, Schreiber studied in Munich. In Munich he was particularly impressed by the works of Carl Rottmann . He went on study trips a. a. to Salzburg and Tyrol. He was in contact with many young painters.
In 1839, after a total of four years of study in Berlin and Munich, Schreiber went to Rome. He moved into an apartment in Via della Vite 107, near the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina . From here he went on numerous study trips. Among other things, in the summer of 1840 with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , the representative of the Düsseldorf landscape school, and Bernhard Fries in the Sabine mountains . The then undeveloped Campagna Romana in the south of Rome was for him "the most beautiful landscape there can be." During an excursion, also in 1840, to the Pontine plain , at that time a malaria-infested swamp, but because of its colourfulness it was a destination of many landscape painters , Schreiber got "the fever" which, according to his own admission, "bothered him like hell". He survived malaria and many young painters died from it. At the end of his stay in Italy in 1841 he was an eyewitness to an eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which left a deep impression on him and, like other impressions of Italy, had a decisive influence on Schreiber's life's work. The Royal Museum (today Altes Museum ) in Berlin acquired his Italian sketches while Schreiber was still alive .
After his return from Italy in 1845, Schreiber got a job as a drawing teacher at the Aegidianum , today's Melanchthon Gymnasium in Nuremberg . Essentially, Schreiber's pictures from this period in Nuremberg, which was his main artistic creative period, have been preserved. Mostly these are Italian motifs. In 1874 he retired from school due to an eye problem. However, he continued to work as an artist.
He had a lifelong friendship with Ferdinand Konrad Bellermann , a fellow student from the Schirmer class in Berlin, who today is mainly known as a landscape painter from the circle of Alexander von Humboldt . But Schreiber also stayed in contact with his teacher Wilhelm Schirmer and classmates from his class such as Julius Helfft and August Carl Haun .
Schreiber was a typical representative of romantic to late romanticism. Against the backdrop of the sometimes mystical and fantastically exaggerated nature, Schreiber sees people and their work as small and insignificant. He thus fulfills the need for an emotional balance to the rapidly advancing industrialization - the longing for the sublimity and eternal greatness of nature, which should provide stability.
He had a good clientele right up to the end. He designed the newly built Siechen beer house in Berlin, a cultural institution in Berlin where Theodor Fontane and Joachim Ringelnatz frequented, around 1882/1883 artistically. Likewise the Faberschloss in Schwarzenbruck near Nuremberg. But he was not only a landscape painter valued in Germany. We also know from a letter from Schreiber to Ferdinand Bellermann in December 1869 that Schreiber "always had many orders to London and Paris".
literature
- Schreiber, Konrad. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, p. 652 ( archive.org ).
- Schreiber, Conrad (Peter C.) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 281 .
- Schreiber, Peter Conrad . In: Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . tape 3 : Pf.-Z . KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-091296-8 , p. 1380 (anthology, vols. 1-3).
Web links
- Biography peter-conrad-schreiber.de
- The landscape painter Peter Conrad Schreiber (1816–1894). stadtarchive-metropolregion-nuernberg.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Vorwerk : Peter Conrad Schreiber, a landscape painter from Fürth in the 19th century. Part 1. In: Fürth history sheets. 4/2015, pp. 99-122; Part 2. In: Fürth history sheets. 1/2016, pp. 3–29.
- ↑ Schreiber's letter of August 18, 1840 to Ferdinand Bellermann (the original letter is in the possession of Ferdinand Bellermann's descendants).
- ↑ Kai-Uwe Schierz, Thomas von Taschitzki (ed.): Observation and Ideal, Ferdinand Bellermann, a painter from the circle around Humboldt. Angermuseum, Erfurt 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schreiber, Peter Conrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schreiber, Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fuerth |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1894 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |