Philipp Herrlich

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Johann Philipp Herrlich (born September 25, 1818 in Laubach , Upper Hesse , † September 17, 1868 in Havana , Cuba ) was a German lithographer and painter.

life and work

After an apprenticeship as a craftsman - his father was a master tailor in Laubach - Herrlich went to the Sunday school of the Polytechnic Society in Frankfurt am Main at the age of 18 , but in 1837 switched to the Städelsche Kunstinstitut through the mediation of director Philipp Veit . Here he trained as a painter with Heinrich Rustige and from 1842 to 1847 with Jakob Becker , interrupted by a short stay in Düsseldorf in 1839 , where Karl Ferdinand's son was his teacher. In 1844 he married the widow Anna Täscher and now also taught his own students. In the revolutionary year of 1848 he was a member of the volunteer infantry battalion of the Frankfurt vigilante, fought on the barricades and received a prison sentence for being removed from exercise without permission. In 1851, after a failed assassination attempt on Frankfurt mayor Carl von Heyden (1793–1866) in the Frankfurt city forest , he was arrested again. After his release, Herrlich emigrated to the United States of America via France . There he earned his living as a photo-toucher. He died in Havana, the capital of what was then the Spanish colony of Cuba, at the age of 50.

The Städelsche Institut acquired the watercolor actor J. Weidner with his dog from his miniature and watercolor portraits made during his time in Frankfurt, and from his landscapes and figure scenes from Upper Hesse was a monk, handing out pictures to children in the Berlin Academy exhibition in 1839. It was the first of his works to be bought by the Frankfurter Kunstverein in 1840 and was published in 1846 as a reproduction in the Rheinisches Taschenbuch as well as another picture, Der Storch hat ist . This was followed by the compositions The recovering child , Playing children and The grave of the child , The wet nurse , The grandfather , Hansel and Gretel and preparation for school and preparation for confirmation . On the other hand, Herrlich took up current issues in the watercolors railway accident on the new Main Bridge on August 16, 1848 and settlement negotiations between theater director Meck and the members of the stage , which the Frankfurt Historical Museum acquired.

Selection of works

  • Monk with children. 1839.
  • Schwalm girl with cats. 1842
  • The recovering child. 1842 (art trade).
  • Children in parkland in front of the silhouette in front of Frankfurt am Main
  • Railway accident on the new Main Bridge on August 16, 1848. Frankfurt a. M., Historical Museum
  • Portrait of Jakob Christian Benjamin Mohr (1778-1854). Leipzig, German National Library, German Museum of Books and Writing, portrait collection of the Börsenverein library (inventory no. Bö-Bl / P / 1808.a, ig19270 + 1), lithograph based on a drawing by Philipp Herrlich, Lithographische Kunstanstalt JG Bach Leipzig, Verlag Otto August Schulz, Leipzig 1855.
  • Girl with a cherry basket in the park. 1856.
  • The new Rebecca (based on Horace Vernet), Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Graphic Collection (inventory no. HB 31598), lithograph by Philipp Herrlich based on a drawing by Ernst Schalck , published by Eduard Gustav May, Frankfurt a. M. 1849/50.
  • Cuban landscape. Watercolor: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FW Pfähler: The Frankfurt city forest and the upper forest house. August Osterrieth, Frankfurt a. M. 1898, p. 9.
  2. ↑ a b c Illustration in: Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Volume 2, 1998, p. 88.
  3. ↑ van-ham.com (fig.).
  4. ↑ Wolfram Prinz (Ed.): Painting of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt a. M. 1957.
  5. ↑ Anette Reiter: Collection Heil. Deutscher Sparkassen-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, cat.no.632.
personal data
SURNAME Wonderful, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herrlich, Johann Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lithographer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Laubach
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1868
Place of death Havana