Theodor Rehbenitz

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Self-Portrait (1840)
Self-Portrait (1817)

Markus Georg Theodor Rehbenitz (born September 2, 1791 in Borstel , † February 19, 1861 in Kiel ) was a German painter and draftsman.

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Theodor Rehbenitz was born on Gut Borstel , where his father was an inspector. After he was first taught at home and in 1808/09 by the Rector Rode in Bad Oldesloe , he came to the Prima of the Katharineum in Lübeck in 1809 . With the death of his father in 1810, the Oldesloer became mayor and king. Danish State Councilor Anton Johann Decker (1769-1824) his guardian. At Easter 1811 he left the Katharineum to study law at the University of Kiel . In the summer semester of 1812 he moved to Heidelberg University , where he met school friends from Lübeck such as Karl Ludwig Roeck in the Corps Hannovera Heidelberg . In the frequent viewing of the pictures of the old German painting schools collected by the Boisserée brothers , he gained an ever greater interest in history painting . He decided to give up law studies entirely in favor of painting. In September 1813 he began his studies at the Vienna Art Academy and also attended the Congress of Vienna here .

In November 1816 he came to Rome . With Friedrich Overbeck by marriage since his sister Auguste Rehbenitz († November 5, 1845) was related by marriage to Overbeck's brother Christian Gerhard Overbeck , he quickly found access to the Nazarenes . Until the autumn of 1832 he lived and worked in different circumstances and in different places in Italy. In the winter of 1818 he traveled to Florence , Siena and Tuscany and stayed with Carl Friedrich von Rumohr . In 1819 he returned to Rome and started a living and studio community with Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld and Friedrich von Olivier in the Palazzo Caffarelli on the Capitol. On behalf of the Naumburg canon Immanuel Christian Leberecht von Ampach , the painting Temptation of Christ for the Christ cycle in Naumburg Cathedral was created until 1823 . It was dated and signed by Rehbenitz in 1823 in an almost (?) Finished condition, who was completely overwhelmed with the order. The picture was not completed until 1825 with Rehbenitz's consent by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Preparatory boxes by Rehbenitz and studies by Schnorr are in the Rehbenitz estate in the Behnhaus in Lübeck. He spent the summer of 1823 again in Florence and Pisa and then went to Perugia in 1824 , where he stayed until May 1827 and made trips to Umbria and Capri . From 1828 to 1831 he worked in the office of the Prussian ambassador Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen .

In the late autumn of 1832 he came to Lübeck and stayed until 1835; During this time he was mainly active as a portrait painter. From 1835 to 1841 he lived in Munich , again in the residential and artist community with Schnorr von Carolsfeld and the Olivier brothers. Here he mainly worked on religious topics, on self-portraits and on commissioned copies. According to the overwhelming opinion, this also includes a copy of Italia and Germania Overbecks, today in the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden .

After another short stay in Lübeck, he was employed by the University of Kiel as a university drawing teacher in autumn 1842 ; associated with this was the administration of the university's art collection . As a member of the board of the Kiel Art Association and the board of the Society for the Collection and Preservation of Patriotic Antiquities, he worked in wide circles. He died after a long sick bed.

The street Rehbenitzwinkel in Kiel- Steenbek-Projensdorf is named after him.

Works in museum possession

literature

  • Chronicle of the University of Kiel. Mohr, Kiel 1862, p. 4 (obituary).
  • Rehbenitz, Theodor . In: General Artist Lexicon . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1895, p. 31 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Theodor Rehbenitz . 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. 92-93 .
  • Klaus Groth and the “Quickborn”: In drawings by Theodor Rehbenitz. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein, Kiel 1937 (= annual gift of the Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein 1937).
  • Wulf Schadendorf : Museum Behnhaus. The house and its rooms. Painting, sculpture, handicrafts (= Lübeck museum catalogs 3). 2nd expanded and changed edition. Museum for Art a. Cultural history d. Hanseatic City, Lübeck 1976, pp. 107-108.
  • Telse Wolf Timm: Theodor Rehbenitz 1791–1861. Personality and work; with a critical catalog of works. Keil: Kunsthalle zu Kiel 1991 (= writings of the Kunsthalle zu Kiel. Volume 10). ISBN 3-923701-49-7 .
  • Christa Steinle, Max Hollein: Religion makes art. The Nazarenes. Catalog for the exhibition in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Walther König, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-88375-940-6 , p. 267.
  • Bruno Jahn, Hans-Michael Körner : Rehbenitz, Theodor . In: Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-097344-8 , p. 1576 ( books.google.de ).

Web links

Commons : Theodor Rehbenitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) No. 20 urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-305545 .
  2. ↑ imm. May 5, 1811 to Easter 1812.
  3. ↑ imm. April 18, 1812 to Mich. 1813.
  4. ^ Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen. Volume 1: 1809-1899. Göttingen 2002, No. 048.
  5. ↑ Hans-G. Hilscher, Dietrich Bleihöfer: Rehbenitzwinkel. In: Kiel Street Lexicon. Continued since 2005 by the Office for Building Regulations, Surveying and Geoinformation of the State Capital Kiel, as of February 2017 ( kiel.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Rehbenitz, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rehbenitz, Markus Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Borstel (Holstein)
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1861
Place of death Kiel