Rosa Achenbach

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Rosa Achenbach (born December 6, 1815 in Pirmasens , † December 1890 in Rochester, New York) was a German landscape and portrait painter.

C. Meyer after Rosa Achenbach, portrait Stephan Metz , Mayor of Mainz

Life

Rosa Achenbach was the youngest of six children of the Pirmasens merchant and carpenter Johann Hermann Achenbach and his wife Maria Magdalena, née Nies. After her father's death in 1828, she came to her aunt, Anna Maria Achenbach, in Mainz in the early 1830s. Here she became a student of the drawing teacher, painter and writer Nikolaus Müller , who married his aunt for the second time in 1837. On October 30, 1839, Rosa Achenbach married the painter and gymnastics teacher Johann Eduard Baptist Müller, son of Nikolaus Müller's first marriage. Mainz address books list Rosa Achenbach, Maler (1836 and 1839) under the address of her teacher Nikolaus Müller. In 1842, 1843 and 1846 Johann Baptist Eduard Müller, professor of the gymnastics institute or gymnastics teacher and painter, is recorded in Untere Gaugasse; In 1853 only Müller, Rosa, painter . A later entry can be found in the Mainz address book from 1860: Müller, Johann Baptist Eduard, painter, wife, Gaustraße . The obituary of the daughter Flora, who was born in Mainz on August 22, 1851, is married to the publisher of the "Abendpost", Julius Stoll (1845–1937) in Rochester, New York, USA, who died on December 13, 1928 in Rochester infer that these - and therefore also the parents, Rosa and Eduard Müller - came to the United States in 1862 .

As early as 1833, Rosa Achenbach was represented in an exhibition in Mainz that showed the work of the teacher as well as another student - Christian Philipp Zucchi (Mainz 1811–1889 Leipzig). In addition to a few landscape pictures, the titles of which suggest a possible stay in Italy by the artist, portraits of her from the 1830s have come down to us that depict personalities from the culture and local politics of the city of Mainz. Her portraits exhibited at the Mainzer Kunstverein, including those of her teacher Nikolaus Müller, the singer Sabine Heinefetter and the Mainz mayor Stephan Metz , were received positively. Her 20th year self-portrait , accordingly created in 1834/35, was shown in 1837 in the Karlsruhe Art Association. Her popular copy of Joseph Karl Stieler's Guardian Angel was also exhibited in Karlsruhe . Little can be proven of her artistic work, which also included miniatures, charcoal and chalk drawings.

Works

  • The island of Capri after sunrise. Traveling exhibition of the Rheinischer Kunstverein 1837.
  • Romantic landscape in the Campagna. Gouache on paper, 29.5 × 41.5 cm (Kunsthandel 2004).

Portraits:

  • Self-portrait in the 20th year , 1834/35
  • Portrait of Nikolaus Müller , around 1835
  • Portrait of Hofrat Franz Wilhelm Jung , around 1835; formerly the Mainz painting collection
  • Portrait of the president of the Kunstverein, Professor Braun , 1834 (posthumously; based on a painting by the Darmstadt gallery director Herbert Müller); Mainz, Middle Rhine State Museum
  • Portrait of the singer Sabine Heinefetter , 1835; formerly Mainz, Middle Rhine State Museum
  • Portrait of Stephan Metz , Mayor of Mainz 1834–1836.
  • Portrait of Peter Schneider (* 1796); formerly Mainz, Middle Rhine State Museum

literature

  • Achenbach, Rosa . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 44 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Achenbach, Rosa . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 , p. 223.
  • The guide to the city of Mainz. Edited by A. Küchler. Johann Wirth, Mainz 1836.
  • Fritz Baur (Hrsg.): Commemorative book of the fourth jubilee of the invention of the art of printing in Mainz. Seifert'sche Buchdruckerei, Mainz 1840, p. 234.
  • Heinrich Eduard Scriba (arrangement and ed.): Biographical-literary lexicon of the writers of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the 19th century. 2nd division. G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1843.
  • Directory of the painting collection of the city of Mainz (in the former electoral palace) 1905. No. 318. Rosa Achenbach (born 1815; Pirmasens): Portrait of the Kunstverein's president, senior judge Jung. - Bez. Ru Rosa Achenbach fecit. Lwd. H. 0.74, Br. 0.57. 319. Rosa Achenbach (cf. No. 318): Portrait of the Kunstverein president Professor Braun. - Bez. Ru Rosa Achenbach pinxt 1834. Lwd. H. 0.73, Br. 0.57.
  • Marianne Bernhard: Lost Works of Painting. In Germany in the period from 1939 to 1945 destroyed and lost paintings from museums and galleries. Berlin 1965, p. 152.
  • Marlene Landschulz: Mainz painter from the first half of the 19th century. Diss. Univ. Mainz 1977, pp. 281-289.
  • Clemens Jöckle: Rosa Achenbach: portrait session in the studio. To a newly found painting by the Pirmasens painter. In: Palatinate home. Volume 47, 1996, pp. 135-140 (fig.).
  • Rösch, Hans-Egon: Sport in Mainz . In Mainz. The story of a city. Edited by Franz Dumont, Ferdinand Scherf and Friedrich Schütz. Mainz 1999. pp. 983-1020 ( https://www.regionalgeschichte.net/rheinhessen/mainz/einzelaspekte/die-gruendung-des-mainzer-turnvereins-von-1817-ev.html ).
  • Jochen Schmidt-Liebich (Ed.): Lexicon of women artists 1700–1900: Germany, Austria, Switzerland. KG Saur, Munich 2005, p. 4.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ year of death and place according to Thieme-Becker, but not documented; see. Schmidt-Liebich / Gambichler
  2. ^ Burial register of Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York, USA. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ In the 1840s at the latest, Eduard Müller (1803–1886) from Mainz became an important figure in the Mainz gymnastics scene. The Mainz gymnastics club unofficially became the "Müller gymnastics community", and it now had up to 500 members. In 1844 Müller wrote one of the first German gymnastic books, the "Mainz Turnziel". In 1846 he founded the "Mainzer Turn-Zeitung" ( https://www.regionalgeschichte.net/rheinhessen/mainz/einzelaspekte/die-gruendung-des-mainzer-turnvereins-von-1817-ev.html )
  4. ^ Democrat and Chronicle from Rochester, New York on December 14, 1928. p. 42 ( newspapers.com ).
  5. ^ Exhibition in the anteroom of the casino hall. In: Quarterly papers of the Association for Literature and Art in Mainz. Fourth year, 1st issue. Florian Kupferberg, Mainz 1833, p. 19.
  6. ^ Exhibition at the Mainz Art Association. In: Leopold Voss (Ed.): Newspaper for the elegant world. No. 77, April 21, 1837, p. 308: [Rosa Achenbach] "... has a lot of imagination and is already delivering good work (...) will go a long way."
  7. ^ Large art exhibition, Mainz 1837. In: Die Biene. Bavarian Sunday paper. No. 1, 1837: "The best portraits were provided by Fraulein Rosa Achenbach from here, and the young painter Kempf."
  8. ↑ probably Heinrich Kempf (* 1814 in Mainz; † 1852 ibid).
  9. ^ Karlsruhe art exhibition in June 1837. In: Morgenblatt für educated readers. Volume 32, March 1, 1838, art sheet, p. 70: Rosa Achenbach: Self-portrait in the 20th year and portrait of the mayor Stephan Metz in Mainz : “The body position is not bad; the head turn, however, not happy, because with the type of faces with Roman noses on the face side, the profile must not protrude too noticeably. "
  10. ^ Karlsruhe art exhibition, June 1838. In: Morgenblatt für educated readers. Art sheet, No. 7, January 23, 1838.
  11. ^ Probably Franz Wilhelm Jung (1767–1833)
  12. ↑ Georg Christian Braun (1785–1834), Rector of the Gymnasium in Wetzlar, teacher of Greek and Latin, later professor of rhetoric at the Grand Ducal Gymnasium in Mainz, see New Nekrolog der Deutschen, vol. 12 (1834).
  13. ^ Adelheid von Stolterforth: Picturesque description of Mainz and the surrounding area. CGKunze, Mainz (no year), p. 34: Only a few were able to form a picture of the celebrated singer, because the portrait of Sabine Heinefetter (in the role of Semiramis in the opera by the painter Rosa Achenbach in 1835 by Gioachino Rossini ), which was given to the Städtische Gemäldegalerie as a gift, has long been considered lost.
  14. ↑ New flora. A conversation and fashion sheet for Bavaria's men and women, No. 1. JCWirth, Augsburg 1835, p. 104 ( mainz.de PDF).
  15. ↑ Figure, labeled after the life painted v. Rosa Achenbach '- signed by C. Meyer , in: Song book for the veterans of the great Napoleon Army from 1803 to 1814 (...) by Niklas Müller. Johann Wirth, Mainz 1837, p. 92
  16. ↑ hadis.hessen.de
  17. ↑ Alphabetical index of all residents of the city of Mainz, with details of their trades, the sections and numbers of their apartments. P. 76: “Mittlere Gaugasse, F 300: House owner: Ludwig Heinrich Pilliet, landowner: Müller, Nikolaus, Prof., drawing teacher and painter; Owner of a painting collection. Achenbach, Rosa, painter "
personal data
SURNAME Achenbach, Rosa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirmasens
DATE OF DEATH around 1870
Place of death Mainz