Reiner Dahlen

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Reiner Dahlen (born August 11, 1837 in Cologne , † April 25, 1874 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Dahlen, trained as a saddler, was initially self-taught in painting . From 1858 to 1859 he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy with the help of benefactors . There were Josef Winter Gerst and Andreas Müller his teachers. Dahlen became a member of the Malkasten artists' association . He counted Otto Scholderer , Philipp Röth and Hans Thoma among his friends. Dahlen made trips to North America and England. He also stayed in Paris for a short time. His painting shows a preference for everyday scenes, which he reproduced naturalistically as one of the first representatives of the Düsseldorf School . Some of his designs were as lithographs in the gazebo duplicated. Dahlen, who with his wife Caroline, a genre painter, had two daughters, Eleonore (Nora) and Maria, died of a "lung disease". Maria became a flower painter. Nora (* 1869; † after 1919) became an animal painter and member of the Das Junge Rheinland movement . She was a friend of Walter Ophey .

Works (selection)

  • Horses in the paddock , 1868
  • Street in London (street in an English city) , around 1870, Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf
  • The Angler , around 1870, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
  • Winter landscape with big game
  • Horse market
  • Shepherd and flock
  • Post in the snow

literature

  • Irene Markowitz: The Düsseldorf School of Painting. Catalogs of the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf . Volume 2: Painting . Düsseldorf 1969, p. 76

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on May 19, 2016
  2. ↑ Otto Scholderer 1834–1902. The new reality of the picturesque. On the 100th anniversary of death . Haus Giersch, Museum Regionaler Kunst, 7 April to 4 August 2002, Frankfurt am Main 2002, p. 65
  3. ^ Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 293
  4. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt: On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 212 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Augsburger Postzeitung . No. 20 of January 23, 1868, volume 1868, p. 152 ( Google Books )
  6. ↑ Rudolf Gottschall (ed.): Our time. German review of the present. Monthly for the conversation lexicon . Volume 10, Issue 13 (July 1, 1874), FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1874, p. 356 ( Google Books )
  7. ^ Stefan Kraus: Walter Ophey. 1882-1930. Life and work with a catalog raisonné of paintings and prints . Verlag Gerd Hatje, Ostfildern 1993, pp. 32, 53
  8. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 2, p. 466 (Catalog No. 408)
personal data
SURNAME Dahlen, Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1874
Place of death Dusseldorf