Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch

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Self-portrait in oil, created between 1787 and 1790, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, illustration by Werner Fleischhauer , 1929

Philipp Friedrich Hetsch , from 1808 von Hetsch , (born September 10, 1758 in Stuttgart , Duchy of Württemberg ; † December 31, 1838 Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg ), was a German painter.

Life

Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch is the son of the Württemberg court musician Christian Heinrich Hetsch. In 1771, at the age of 13, without the knowledge of his parents, he successfully tried to get accepted at the Hohen Karlsschule in Stuttgart, where he was accepted as a student of the painters Nicolas Guibal and Adolf Friedrich Harper . The focus of his training was landscape painting .

Schiller as regimental doctor on an oil painting by Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch, painted in the years 1781/1782

Through his love of theater, Hetsch came into close contact with the sculptors of classicism Johann Heinrich Dannecker and Friedrich Schiller at the Hohen Karlsschule in Stuttgart . Hetsch and Dannecker were both born in 1758, Schiller in 1759. Hetsch belonged to Dannecker's and Schiller's circle of friends.

With the support of his teachers at the High Karlsschule Philipp Friedrich was from Hetsch year 22-a study visit to Paris allows, where he was in 1780 as a student of Joseph-Marie Vien and Claude Joseph Vernet adopted after in the same year by Duke he Carl Eugen to Court painter had been appointed. Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch described his own style of painting as being largely influenced by the work of the great French painter of classicism in painting , Jacques-Louis David .

After a two-year study visit to Paris, Hetsch returned to Stuttgart in 1782, where he continued to work as a court painter. With the financial support of the Württemberg court, he was able to begin a two-year study visit to Rome in the spring of 1785 , in order not to be mentioned there with the technique and painting style of such gifted painters as Giotto , Fra Angelico , Filippo Lippi , Sandro Botticelli , Caravaggio and others Master, familiarize.

In 1787, Hetsch took over the teaching position of Adolf Friedrich Harper at the Hohen Karlsschule, who was appointed professor in 1790 (who however still retained the direction of painting, especially landscape painting). With the closure of the High Charles School in 1794, like the other artistic teachers, he lost his teaching post. After Harper's departure, who had previously been in charge of the ducal picture gallery, Hetsch held the post of gallery director from 1798 to 1816.

Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Württemberg Civil Order of Merit on February 4, 1808 and the associated personal, non-inheritable nobility .

Hetsch is definitely still one of the artists of classicism , although he never found his own style and remained in the shadow of his French teachers like Vien and Vernet. His work includes representations from mythology as well as from history, and Christian themes are a focus in the later paintings.

family

He married Louise Friederike Wilhelmine Scholl (1766-1800) in Stuttgart in 1787 , a daughter of the Chamber and Church Council Ludwig Scholl and Elisabeth Wilhelmine Plouquet . The couple had four sons, three of whom died early, and a daughter. The architect Gustav Friedrich von Hetsch is his son from this marriage.

After the death of his first wife in 1801 he married Charlotte Fischer (1778–1826), a daughter of the Württemberg court architect Reinhard Ferdinand Heinrich Fischer . The couple also had a son.

Painting gallery portrait works

Works (selection)

  • Achilles, angry about the removal of the Briseis
  • The blind Oedipus with his daughters before Theseus
  • Cupid and Psyche in the boat
  • Regulus' farewell to his own
  • Brutus of Porcia
  • Papirius and the Gallic Warriors
  • Marius on the ruins of Carthage
  • Cornelia, the mother of the Gracches, 1794
  • Daniel in the lions' den
  • Joseph in prison
  • Maria's conversation with Porcia, the wife of Pilate
  • Odin's journey into hell
  • Knight Albonack, showing King Alfred his daughters
  • King Friedrich and his entourage in front of Monrepos Castle

Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch's important family portraits include his painting of the chief building director Reinhold Ferdinand Fischer with his wife Juliane Fischer, born Bilfinger, from the Württemberg Bilfinger family, and their three daughters Friedericke Luise, Heinricke Franziska, Franziska Juliane and their little son Ferdinand . The landscape format painting is one of the holdings of the Stuttgart State Gallery .

literature

Web links

Commons : Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer : Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= improved reprint from: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988), o. P. [3].
  2. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Manual 1815, p. 37.

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personal data
SURNAME Hetsch, Philipp Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hetsch, Philipp Friedrich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1838
Place of death Stuttgart