Robert Heck

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Reception of a new pastor by his congregation in the Black Forest
The grave of Robert Heck and his wife Therese in the Pragfriedhof Stuttgart .

Wilhelm Emil Robert Heck (born April 25, 1831 in Stuttgart ; † November 11, 1889 , ibid) was a German portrait and genre painter .

Life

Robert Heck studied at the Stuttgart Art School under Heinrich von Rustige . He often exhibited his paintings at the major German art exhibitions. Some of his works were in royal possession. On his study trips he came to southern France and Italy and was there in Rome in 1863. As a commissioned painting , he portrayed Professors Karl Josef Hefele and Karl Georg von Wächter for the Tübingen Professorengalerie in 1888 .

Works

Reception of a new pastor by his congregation in the Black Forest

Heck had joined an itinerant preacher in his youth and repeatedly depicted Württemberg Protestantism in his work . With his painting Reception of a new pastor by his congregation in the Black Forest , the Kingdom of Württemberg presented itself abroad in 1867 at the World Exhibition in Paris . It shows the first encounter between a Protestant pastor's family and their new congregation in an idealized environment. The cheerful encounter in an idyllic landscape with pious and well-meaning parishioners was an alternative to the reality at the time . Here, Heck combined a typical cliché of Württemberg from several set pieces : The northern Black Forest and the Neckar Valley are combined into a seamless landscape. Some children wear the local Betzinger costume as a representation of a Swabian national costume that does not actually exist. The sheep is not missing either: because our pastor is so good, so we bring her a young sheep , it was said in 1847 in Ottilie Wildermuth's genre pictures from a small town .

At the World Exhibition in Paris, the director of the British East India Company bought the oil painting for his villa in Sydney . The painting is exhibited today in the “Legendary Masterworks” collection in the Old Palace in Stuttgart .

Oil painting

  • Capri , 1872

  • idyll

  • Idyll with goats near a ruin

  • First steps , 1857

literature

Web links

Commons : Robert Heck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henry's Auction House, Mutterstadt, Henry's Auction House, June 30, 2012.
  2. ^ Robert (Wilhelm Emil R.) Heck. 1831 - Stuttgart - 1889. Student of Rustige. Toured the South of France.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Auction house Zeller, international Lake Constance art auctions.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.zeller.de  
  3. ↑ Reinhold Scholl: The portrait collection of the University of Tübingen, 1477 to 1927. Writings of the Verein für Württembergische Familienkunde, volume 2, published by K. Ad. Emil Müller, Stuttgart, 1927.
  4. ↑ a b Christine Eichel, Friedrun Portele-Anyangbe: Reception of a new pastor by his congregation in the Black Forest, Wilhelm Emil Robert Heck (1831–1889), oil on canvas, 1866. ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ; PDF) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Life after Luther. The Protestant rectory yesterday, today and tomorrow . Special issue on events and the exhibition Life after Luther. A cultural history of the Protestant rectory. P. 10 and 13. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ekd.de
  5. ^ A b Museum Digital: Reception of a new pastor by his congregation in the Black Forest.
  6. ↑ Ottilie Wildermuth: The interrupted wedding feast , at Zeno.org
personal data
SURNAME Heck, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heck, Wilhelm Emil Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1889
Place of death Stuttgart