Robert Warthmüller
Robert Warthmüller (born January 16, 1859 in Landsberg an der Warthe as Robert Müller , † July 25, 1895 in Berlin ) was a German painter .
life and career
Warthmüller was also referred to as the "Fridericus Painter" because of his subject . Because especially the historical representations of Frederick the Great are known and loved, such as “The King everywhere”, on which the king convinced himself of the implementation of his potato order , “Frederick the Great before the Battle of Rossbach” or “Frederick among his grenadiers”.
Warthmüller received his training at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin with Otto Knille and in Kassel with Louis Kolitz and also studied in Munich and Paris with Jules-Joseph Lefebvre . When he began his career in 1880, he chose the artist name "Warthmüller" in memory of the river Warthe , also to distinguish it from the many artists with the name Müller. Having become famous, he made his stage name his real name in 1892.
Warthmüller's mastery, which was also expressed in contemporary pictures and portraits, was noted with great interest by Adolph von Menzel . His paintings were used for illustrations in newspapers such as Die Gartenlaube , which had also made them famous. In addition to history painting, he painted landscapes. As an artist he belongs to the late Romantic period , but in his last works he approached impressionism .
He created miniatures and worked as a sculptor, for example he made a miniature by Hans Joachim von Zieten . Works by Warthmüller are among others in the German Historical Museum in Berlin.
Warthmüller was married. The marriage had four children, three daughters and the son Hans Warthmüller (1890–1973), who became a doctor.
Death and grave memorial
Immediately after his appointment as a teacher at the University of Fine Arts, Robert Warthmüller died of appendicitis in 1895 at the age of 36 . The painter was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Schöneberg near Berlin.
The sculptor Ernst Herter created an artistically remarkable grave monument for the clinker brick wall grave with cladding made of reddish granite . The recessed bronze relief plate shows a medallion with the portrait of the dead. Below the figure of a winged, almost naked female genius with a bowed head emerges almost fully plastic, a color palette with a brush in the left hand, a laurel branch in the right hand. Underneath is a false sarcophagus, the front of which has the grave inscriptions and on which the feet of the genius rest.
The Warthmüller and Herter families were friends and had lived in the same house for several years on Buchenstrasse (which no longer exists today), near Lützowplatz in the Tiergarten district of Berlin . Ernst Herter's own tomb in the Twelve Apostles churchyard has also been preserved.
After his untimely death, the Nationalgalerie Berlin showed an exhibition of his works from April to May 1896. Including 69 oil paintings and 79 oil studies, watercolors and drawings that he had created within ten years.
literature
- Joachim Behrend: An almost forgotten Berliner. The history and genre painter Robert Warthmüller (1859–1895). In: Werner Breunig, Uwe Schaper (Hrsg.): Berlin in past and present. Yearbook of the Berlin State Archives. Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-7861-2673-7 , pp. 79-95.
- Joachim Behrend: Robert Warthmüller - catalog raisonné. With a biography of the artist. Verlag der Kunst, Husum 2011, ISBN 978-3-86530-153-6 .
- Müller, Robert (1859) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 247 .
- Hugo von Tschudi (Ed.): Exhibition of works by the painter Robert Warthmüller, April - May 1896 Kgl. Museums in Berlin, National Gallery. Mittler, Berlin 1896.
- Robert Warthmüller: 1859 - 1895; the "Fridericus Painter" . Husum Druck, Husum 1996, ISBN 3-88042-777-1 .
- Joachim Behrend: The Berlin painter Robert Warthmüller (1859–1895) and his history pictures about Frederick the Great . In: Yearbook of the Berlin museums . tape 53 , 2011, ISSN 0075-2207 , p. 117-130 , JSTOR : 43875603 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Behrend: An almost forgotten Berliner (lit.), p. 81. Behrend draws attention to the fact that the literature on Warthmüller does not always take note of the name change.
- ^ Entry in the object database of the German Historical Museum
- ↑ Konrad Herter: Encounters with people and animals. Memoirs of a zoologist 1891–1973. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-428-04549-1 , p. 15.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places. Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 758.
- ↑ Herter: Encounters with people and animals . P. 15.
- ^ Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial sites. P. 752.
- ^ AR: The artistic estate of the painter Robert Warthmüller . In: Art Chronicle . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1866, Sp. 417 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Warthmüller, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller, Robert (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German history painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landsberg on the Warta |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1895 |
| Place of death | Berlin |