Tõnis landmark
Tõnis Grenzstein , also Tönnis Grenzstein or Theodor Grenzstein (born November 16, 1863 in Kõksi, parish Tarwast near Fellin , Livonia Gouvernement , Russian Empire ; † 1916 in Düsseldorf ), was an Estonian landscape and portrait painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Grenzstein, one of nine children of the Estonian farmer Jaan Grenzstein (* 1818) and his wife Liis, née Reichmann (* 1824), grew up in modest circumstances. In the village of Koikkülla near Walk , where the family had moved, Grenzstein began schooling, which he finished in 1881 at the Walk district school. Then Grenzstein went to Dorpat and attended the drawing school of the Deutsche Handwerkergesellschaft, where the painter Rudolf Julius von zur Mühlen worked as a drawing teacher. Thanks to a scholarship from a Russian nobleman, Grenzstein was able to finance studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1885 he began his academic training there in the class for ornamentation and decoration under Adolf Schill . This was followed by the preliminary class for ornamentation and perspective with Schill and the preparatory class with Hugo Crola (1886), the antiquity and nature class with Peter Janssen the Elder (1887), the painting classes of Eduard Gebhardt and Julius Roeting (1889-1894) and again the class for ornamentation and decoration at Schill (1890).
Grenzstein then stayed in Düsseldorf and worked as Gebhardt's assistant. From 1897 to 1902 he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . In 1901 he visited Ado Grenzstein , his older brother, in Paris . Shortly afterwards he went to Diedenhofen in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and founded a painting school for women. At the same time he worked as a portraitist for officers of the local garrison. With the beginning of the First World War Grenzstein returned to Düsseldorf. The plan he developed there to set up a factory for a permanent white paint soon ended in financial debacle. As a result, he fell into alcoholism and died in a Düsseldorf hospital in 1916.
Web links
- Mari Vallikivi: Tõnis Grenzstein (1863–1916) , biography on the kondas.ee portal (in Estonian and English)
- Mait Talts: Tõnis landmark ?? unustusse vajunud kunstnik Tarvastu kandist . Biography on the portal skala.postimees.ee (in Estonian)
- Olev Kenk: Viljandis next Tõnis Grenzsteini loomingu ülevaatenäitust , article from November 20, 2016 in the portal kultuur.err.ee ( Eesti Rahvusringhääling )
- Theodor Grenzstein , auction results on the portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ See nos. 4364–4374 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 431
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| SURNAME | Landmark, Tõnis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grenzstein, Tönnis; Grenzstein, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian landscape and portrait painter as well as illustrator of the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kõksi, Parish Tarwast near Fellin , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1916 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |