Peter Rittig

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Peter Rittig: Tobias receives Sara in front of his parents' house (1824), Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Peter Rittig (* 1789 in Koblenz , † August 14, 1840 in Rome ) was a German painter .

Life

Before 1808 Rittig trained in Berlin, from 1808 to 1816 studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and in the atelier of Jacques-Louis David in Paris . From 1816 he lived in Rome, in the circle of artists around Johann Friedrich Overbeck , in 1821 he became a member of the composing association for sacred art founded by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld and his artist friends Johann Friedrich Overbeck , Carl Begas and Peter von Hess . In 1824 Rittig was involved in the Roman exhibition of German artists in Via Margutta with the paintings Rest on the Flight , The Good Samaritan and Arrival of Young Tobias ' Weds. a. and Moritz Daniel Oppenheim was involved. From 1824 to 1830 and 1838 Rittig took part in the Berlin Academy Exhibition. He worked primarily as a history and genre painter .

Works (selection)

  • Portrait of Napoleon , 1808, oil / canvas, whereabouts unknown (Berlin, PrAdK)
  • The young Issel on his study trips , around 1813–1815, oil on canvas, 72 × 59 cm, Berlin, private collection
  • Pericles and Anaxagoras , 1816, oil / canvas, whereabouts unknown (Berlin, GStA PK)
  • Copy after Raffael , 1816, whereabouts unknown (Cornill 1864, p. 52)
  • Portrait of the former ambassador Helfinger in Darmstadt , whereabouts unknown (Lohmeyer 1929, p. 146).
  • Parable of the wise and foolish virgins , 1823
  • Escape into Egypt , 1824
  • Ascension of Christ , 1824, altar painting
  • Tobias receives Sara in front of his parents' house , 1824, Germanisches Nationalmuseum
  • Christ and Thomas , 1839, oil, "Great Orphanage in Potsdam" foundation
  • Christ and Thomas , originally a garrison church in Potsdam, around 1820 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel as an altar painting in the Ev. Apostle Church Münster / Westf. spent, missing since 1945.

literature

  • Rideable, Peter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 391 .
  • Ludwig Schreiner: The reorganization of the Apostle Church in Münster by Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1818–1824. Westfalen, Volume 47, 1969, pp. 170-201.
  • Norbert Suhr: Peter Rittig and Anton Dräger - two forgotten Nazarenes from the Prussian Rhine Province. In: Das Münster - magazine for Christian art and art history. 65th volume, issue 2, 2012, pp. 107–117.
  • Nina Struckmeyer: Rittig, Peter. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 243–245.

Web links

Commons : Peter Rittig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rittig, Peter In: Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon. Volume 13: Rhenghiero, Rhenghieri – Rubens, PP EA Fleischmann, Munich 1843, pp. 211–212 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Julia Schmidt: Peter Rittig's painting, believed to have been lost since 1945, handed over to the Potsdam Foundation: “Christ and Thomas” back in the orphanage. In: Berliner Zeitung . September 28, 2000 ( berliner-zeitung.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Rideable, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1840
Place of death Rome