Rudolf Stang

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Rudolf Stang , photo 1902

Rudolf Stang , even Rudolph Stang (* 26. November 1831 in Dusseldorf , † 2. January 1927 in Boppard ), was a German, in the Netherlands acting engraver and etcher of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Christ seated in a boat, calming the crowd , after Friedrich Overbeck , 1851
Christ washes the feet of the apostles , after Friedrich Overbeck, 1852
Postage stamp for Queen Wilhelmina , 1898

Stang was the son of the former school teacher and later winemaker Jakob Stang from Königswinter and his wife Franziska, née Denz. In 1840 his father, who had run the Zum Drachenfels wine bar in Düsseldorf's Rheinstrasse , died. Artists in particular frequented this inn, such as the composers Friedrich August and Norbert Burgmüller as well as the poets Christian Dietrich Grabbe and Karl Immermann . In 1846, the widowed mother was forced to auction the house on Rheinstrasse that had been rented out after her husband's death.

Initially intended for professions as a stone cutter and lithographer , Stang attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1845 to 1857 , where the copper engraver Joseph von Keller was his most important teacher. After two years of study, Stang began making plates for devotional pictures . Keller had arranged for him to do this. In addition to his professorship, he also held artistic functions on the board of the Association for the Dissemination of Religious Images . Stang's first engraving was the Annunciation, based on a fresco by Ernst Deger , which Ernst Deger had painted for the chapel of Stolzenfels Castle in the 1850s . In Düsseldorf, where Stang belonged to the artists' association Malkasten , the engraver Andreas Pickel (1838–1913) was his private student. Through his sister Maria he became the brother-in-law of the copper engraver Nikolaus Barthelmess and the uncle of the later portrait painter Rudolf Barthelmess .

In 1865 and 1874 Stang traveled to Italy to study . For his engraving Sposalizio (after Raffael ), which he had completed in 1873, the academies of Berlin, Munich and Brussels appointed him a member. In 1874 he drew Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper in Milan . In 1881 the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam appointed him professor for the art of copperplate engraving. Until he resigned from his teaching post in 1901, important Dutch artists were his students, including Hendrik Maarten Krabbé (1868–1931), Thérèse Schwartze and Willem Witsen . Stang created two postage stamps for the Dutch PTT in the years 1898/1899, one of them to pay homage to Queen Wilhelmina . In 1901 he also engraved designs for Dutch banknotes, which appeared in 1921 and 1924. In 1901 Stang moved to Boppard, where he died in 1927.

Works (selection)

literature

  • Rudolf Wiegmann : The Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf . Verlag der Buddeus'schen Buch- und Kunsthandlung (Ed. Schulte), Düsseldorf 1856, p. 423
  • Stang, Rudolf . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 502
  • Georg Galland : The copper engraver Rudolf Stang . In: Society for duplicating art (ed.): The graphic arts . Year 1888, Book VI, p. 21 ( digitized version )
  • Stang, Rudolf . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . Volume 18, Leipzig 1909, p. 847
  • Stang, Rudolf . In: Pieter A. Scheen: Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750-1880 . The Hague 1981, p. 493

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Stang  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Stöcker: Düsseldorf in old views . Verlag Europäische Bibliothek, Zaltbommel 1990, ISBN 978-90-288-2665-6 , Volume 1, p. 9
  2. ^ Alfred Bergmann : Grabbe in a contemporary portrait . In: Georg Witkowski (ed.): Journal for book lovers. Organ of the Society of Bibliophiles eV EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, new series, 14th year (1922), p. 132 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Official Gazette for the Düsseldorf administrative region for the year 1846. Oeffentlicher Anzeiger . Issue 55 of June 23, 1846, item 464 (784th real estate sale), digitized
  4. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on September 1, 2016
  5. ↑ Stang, Rudolf , website in the portal stampengravers.blogspot.de , accessed on September 1, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Stang, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver and etcher of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1927
Place of death Boppard