Rudolf Hofmann (painter)

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Rudolf Hofmann (* 29. January 1820 in Darmstadt , Grand Duchy of Hesse ; † 28. October 1882 ) was a German genre , portrait and history painter of the Düsseldorf School and Gallery - Inspector in Darmstadt.

Life

Hofmann was the son of the art-loving journalist and court attorney Heinrich Karl Hofmann (1795–1845) and his wife Sophie Hofmann, née Volhard (1798–1854). One of his three brothers was the painter Heinrich Ferdinand Hofmann , another brother was the later Prime Minister of Hesse and Darmstadt, Karl von Hofmann , father of the painter and designer Ludwig von Hofmann and the Prussian lieutenant general and Freikorpsführer Heinrich von Hofmann .

Look at the singer arbor in the Singers' Hall of Wartburg , chromolithography in 1900

After his first artistic lessons in Darmstadt, Rudolf Hofmann studied painting under Wilhelm Schadow at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1836 to 1842 . From 1836 to 1839 Karl Ferdinand Sohn was his teacher there.

Before he returned to his hometown in 1860, he stayed in Munich , Büdingen and Rome , among others . He became known through 23 wall paintings on the history of the Isenburg family in the castle of Prince Wolfgang Ernst III, created by 1853 . to Isenburg and Büdingen . He lived in Rome from 1854 to 1857 and took part there in 1854 and 1855 at the "Cervaro Festivals" of the German Artists ' Association. From May 1857 he created according to specifications of the architect Hugo von Ritgen frescoes and door paintings in the singer Laube the Wartburg , in addition to Wagner's Tannhäuser contributed to the idea of sängerkrieg to bring the 19th century back to life . In 1858 he painted the minstrel cabinet designed by Ritgen for the Wartburg.

In 1861 Ludwig III appointed him . from Hessen-Darmstadt as inspector of the Grand Ducal Cabinet of Prints and Drawings, in 1867 inspector of the Grand Ducal Picture Gallery in Darmstadt Castle . In both functions, he acted under the supervision of the Ministerialrat in the Ministry of Finance and Museum Director Heinrich August Schleiermacher . As head of the grand ducal painting collection, he published its directory in 1872, the “gallery's first high-quality catalog”, in which he was the first of the Darmstadt gallery directors to critically examine traditional attributions. Hofmann also ran a painting school at the Grand Ducal Picture Gallery. Hofmann's pupils were, for example, the history and genre painter Ludwig von Löfftz and the landscape painter Wilhelm Horst (1852–1940).

Fonts

  • About the historically interesting paintings in the Darmstadt gallery . In: Quarterly pages of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse , 1870, pp. 8-14.
  • The painting collection of the Grand Ducal Museum in Darmstadt . H. Brill, Darmstadt 1872 ( digitized version , digitized version of the 3rd edition 1885 ).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  2. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
  3. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 270
  4. ↑ Max Baumgärtel (ed.): The Wartburg. A monument to German history and art . Historischer Verlag Baumgärtel, Berlin 1907, p. 380 f. ( Digitized version )
  5. ↑ Hans von der Gabelentz : The Wartburg. A guide through their history and buildings . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1941, p. 125
  6. ↑ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : The Nibelungenlied in German art of the 19th and 20th centuries . Anabas-Verlag, 1980, ISBN 978-3-8703-8069-4 , pp. 122, 126
  7. ^ Karl Langosch (ed.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1953, Volume IV, Sp. 861 ( Google Books )
  8. ^ Ulrich Müller: Wartburg . In: Francis C. Gentry, Winder McConnell, Ulrich Müller, Werner Wunderlich (eds.): The Nibelungen Tradition. To Encycopedia . Routledge, New York and London 2011, ISBN 0-8153-1785-9 , p. 303 ( Google Books )
  9. ↑ Grit Jacobs: “A true picture from an early age.” The work of the architect Hugo von Ritgen on the Wartburg . Dissertation Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 2015, Volume 1 (text), p. 105 ( PDF )
  10. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Grand Duchy of Hesse for the year 1869 . Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1869, p. 366
  11. ↑ Heidrun Ludwig: The paintings of the 18th century in the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt . Inventory catalog, catalogs of the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, issue 18, p. 11
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre, portrait and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt , Grand Duchy of Hesse
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1882
Place of death Darmstadt , Grand Duchy of Hesse