Peter Schwingen

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Lost self-portrait, around 1830

Peter Schwingen (born October 14, 1813 in Muffendorf ; † May 6, 1863 in Düsseldorf ) was a German genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

Life

Peter de Weerth , 1838
Prize shooting for a fat pig , 1844

The son of a field guard and small farmer came to the Düsseldorf Academy at the age of 19, supported by a grant from the Prussian state . This scholarship was arranged for him by Princess Marianne von Prussia , a born Princess of Hessen-Homburg and wife of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia , the youngest brother of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. His teachers were Karl Ferdinand son , Theodor Hildebrandt and Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow. His achievements at the academy in portrait and genre painting were consistently rated “good” or “very good”. In 1837, shortly before the birth of his daughter Caroline Philippine, he married Magdalene Philippine, the daughter of his landlord, the master tailor Schmitz.

Schwingen became famous for a Martinsabend and received numerous portraits from Elberfeld and Barmen , which he created as interior portraits and thus took a path that was unusual for Düsseldorf. In doing so, he took up the interior portrait of Dutch art of the 17th century. In addition, in his portraits he combined the characterization of the individual with a strictly factual representation, a concept that he could find in Heinrich Christoph Kolbe's portraits. In this way he conveys a realistic picture of the bourgeois way of life and domestic culture from the decade before the revolution of 1848. He was best known for his portrait of Peter de Weerth from Elberfeld . After Johann Josef Scotti initiated contact , Schwingen produced around 14 paintings for de Weerth from 1837 onwards.

His genre pictures take up the themes of his native rural environment. They became much more political in the pre-March period . B. in his seizure and the return from the field . He varied some of the themes of his early works several times and succeeded in asserting himself on the market. He painted larger formats of genre pictures until shortly before his death, and because of his steady sales, he could definitely afford an apartment in a good residential area in Düsseldorf. He by no means died “poor and forgotten” as the Fama spreads it. Research today assumes that Schwingen created around 200 oil paintings, around 150 of which are known to date.

It was not until the art historian Walter Cohen rediscovered it and devoted several publications to it, although he only knew a few of Schwingen's works from his own experience. The Peter Schwingen Society in Bonn- Bad Godesberg is dedicated to researching and publishing his works. Schwingen is now one of the leading genre painters at the Düsseldorf School.

literature

  • Swing, Peter . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume II, Dresden 1898, p. 717.
  • Walter Cohen : Peter Schwingen, the portrait painter from Muffendorf . Verlag des Verschönerungsverein, Godesberg 1932.
  • Walter Cohen: Peter Schwingen. Life and work . In: Communications of the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , Issue 1, Düsseldorf 1932.
  • Pia Heckes and Horst Heidermann : Peter Schwingen (1813–1863). Life and work. Siegburg 2004.
  • Pia Heckes: Peter Schwingen (1813–1863). For the 200th birthday of the painter from Muffendorf. In: Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg e. V. (Ed.): Godesberger Heimatblätter. Issue 50 (= annual issue 2012 of the Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV ). Bonn 2012. ISSN  0436-1024 , pp. 246-251.
  • Ingrid Bodsch (Ed.): Peter Schwingen (1813-1863). A painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting. For the 200th birthday. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name by the StadtMuseum Bonn in the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Haus in Bonn. Edited and with contributions from Pia Heckes and Horst Heidermann. Bonn 2013. ISBN 9783931878399 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pia Heckes, Horst Heidermann: Peter Schwingen (1813–1863). A painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting. For the 200th birthday . Verlag Stadtmuseum Bonn, Bonn 2013, p. 133 f. ( PDF )
  2. ^ Wolfgang Hütt : Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1869 . VEB EA Seemann Buch- und Kunstverlag, Leipzig 1984, p. 95.
  3. ^ Pia Heckes, Horst Heidermann, p. 134
personal data
SURNAME Swing, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Muffendorf near Godesberg (today Bonn)
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1863
Place of death Dusseldorf