Robert Engels

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Robert Engels (born March 9, 1866 in Solingen , † May 24, 1926 in Munich ) was a German painter , graphic artist , lithographer , craftsman and university professor .

biography

Odin at the Well of Wisdom , book illustration, published 1903

Robert Engels was the eldest son of the Solingen steel goods dealer Robert Engels († 1885) (in drop forge JP Engels ) and his wife Auguste Engels née Kirschbaum. Since he was not very interested in the business, he began studying painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (1886–1889) after his father's death . There were Hugo Crola , Johann Peter Theodor Janssen , Heinrich Lauenstein and Adolf Schill his teachers. He also trained through stays in France , Belgium and England . Then he worked in Düsseldorf. In 1898 he took up a job in Munich, in 1910 he became a teacher and later professor at the Munich School of Applied Arts . In 1908 Engels married his pupil Gustava von Veith (1879–1970). He became an employee of the magazine Jugend and in 1912 a member of the German Werkbund . Among his students were Franz Kolbrand (1892–1952), Erwin Bowien (1899–1972), Otto Michael Schmitt (1904–1992) and his master student Carl Otto Müller (painter) (1901–1970). Numerous correspondence have been preserved from his estate and that of his wife Gustava, including his contacts with the Schondorf artists' colony , documents on his commissions, including for the Krupp and Krawehl entrepreneurial families in the Ruhr area, on designs for church windows in Wroclaw and on stage sets for theaters in Munich and Leipzig .

After the death of her husband in 1934, Gustava Engels gave large parts of his artistic estate (110 paintings and around 1300 drawings) to the Robert Engels Memorial Foundation , which was administered by the city of Solingen through a municipal administrative committee. In return, the foundation and city granted the widow a monthly pension from the end of 1934. A second, roughly equal part of the estate was transferred in 1955. After her death, his remaining artistic works and her personal estate also fell to the city.

plant

Sága and Odin , 1919
  • 1906: Illustrations for the volume:
    Ballads by Börries Freiherrn von Münchhausen. 2nd, modified and increased edition, FA Lattmann, Berlin undated (1906).
  • 1912: Illustrations (woodcuts) for the anniversary publication of the Krupp company:
    Krupp 1812–1912. Festschrift for the centenary of the Krupp company and the cast steel factory in Essen / Ruhr. Essen 1912. (with 4 original etchings by Walter Conz and text woodcuts by Robert Engels and Carl Thiemann )

literature

  • Engels, Robert . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 546 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Franz Hendrichs: Robert Engels 1866–1926. A picture of the artist's life . Solingen 1928. (Copy in the Solingen city archive)
  • Johann Karl: Professor Robert Engel's estate. Munich 1926. (Reprint for the estate exhibition) (copy in the Solingen city archive).
  • Robert Engels 1866–1926. (Catalog for the 1956 memorial exhibition) German Blade Museum Solingen, Solingen 1956. (Copy in the Solingen City Archives)

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personal data
SURNAME Engels, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist, lithographer, craftsman and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1926
Place of death Munich