Theodor Mintrop

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Bronze bust of Theodor Mintrop
Signature Theodor Mintrop.PNG
Mintrops tomb in the Golzheimer Friedhof , today in the Nordfriedhof Düsseldorf
Saint Michael fights the devil , drawing 1858
Mining AG Medio-Rhein share dated February 1, 1858, designed by Theodor Mintrop
Haugianerne (Devotion of the Haugians ) , painting by Adolph Tidemand , second version, 1852 - Mintrop was the model for this picture of Norwegian national romanticism as the figure of the preacher.
Mrs. Schuyler Burning Her Wheat Fields in Approach of the British , 1852 - In this history painting by the German-American Emanuel Leutze , which depicts an incident from the American War of Independence , Mintrop figures as the coachman, Mrs. Schuyler with a hectic gesture the approach of the British armed forces indicates whereupon this lady lights her wheat fields to create scorched earth.

Theodor Mintrop (born April 7, 1814 in Essen-Heidhausen , † June 30, 1870 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter of the Romantic period and the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

Life

Mintrop was born on Gut Barkhoven in Heidhausen. Up to the age of 30 he served on his brother's estate. The Düsseldorf artist Eduard Geselschap , who had become aware of the autodidact together with Heinrich Oecklinghaus, managed to get Wilhelm von Schadow to enter the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1844 despite his age . Geselschap took Mintrop into a shared apartment on Jägerhofstrasse for the rest of his life , which he did not even finish when he married Lotte Rose in 1856. Another friend of Mintrop's was Fritz Roeber , who later became the director of the art academy. There Mintrop studied with Theodor Hildebrandt , Carl Ferdinand Sohn and Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow . In 1854 he rose to the master class "as a very significant talent" . The extraordinary circumstance of the discovery of the "natural talent" and his idiosyncratic style led to him being celebrated as the "new Giotto " and "child prodigy of romanticism" ( Richard Klapheck ). Gottfried Sello praised him in 1963 as "a rural Raffael ". Like many other painters of the Düsseldorf School, Mintrop belonged to the artists' association Malkasten . A friend and successor of Mintrop was the painter Friedrich Geselschap .

His works include The Album for Minna from the years 1855 to 1857 with washed and watercolored drawings on 72 sheets and the fairy tale book König Heinzelmann's Liebe published posthumously in 1875 with 70 illustrations. In the succession of the arabesques and the grotesques of Raphael et al. a. and possibly inspired by Genelli's multi-figure compositions , he created an allegorical glorification of May wine in 1869 , which shows the influence of the Düsseldorf painting school and is now owned by the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne.

An altarpiece by Theodor Mintrop hangs in the former St. Ludgerus Abbey Church in Essen-Werden.

Many of Mintrop's drawings are archived in the Museum Kunstpalast (Düsseldorf) on loan from the Düsseldorf Art Academy.

The Mintropplatz in Düsseldorf and the Mintropstrasse in Düsseldorf and Essen were named after him.

Illustrations (selection)

Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf :

literature

  • Bund .:  Mintrop, Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 769-771.
  • Bund: Theodor Mintrop: a sheet of memory . Dusseldorf: Spiethoff & Krahe, 1871 urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-43219
  • Richard Klapheck : Theodor Mintrop. The child prodigy of romance . Dortmund 1923.
  • Gunda Luyken: putti, witches and naked men. Drawings by Theodor Mintrop . Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf 2014.
  • Angelika Mintrop-Aengevelt (Ed.): King Heinzelmann's love . Droste, Düsseldorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-7700-1537-5 .
  • Margaret A. Rose (Ed.): Theodor Mintrop. The album for Minna (1855-1857). Along with other newly discovered materials. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89528-378-9 .
  • Margaret A. Rose (Ed.): Theodor Mintrop's letters to Anna Rose (1857–1869). With documents and pictures from Bielefeld, Detmold and Düsseldorf. For the 200th birthday of the painter Theodor Mintrop (1814–1870). Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8498-1028-3 .
  • Margaret A. Rose (Ed.): Theodor Mintrop's comic fairy tales in pictures (1855–1866) / Theodor Mintrop's comic fairy tales in pictures (1855–1866). Mammelitzken and the Heinzelmanken (1855–1860) & König Heinzelmanns Liebe (1866). Texts in German and English. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2016, ISBN 978-3-8498-1148-8 .
  • Gabriele Zangs: Theodor Mintrop. Monograph and catalog of works . Athena-Verlag, Oberhausen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89896-534-7 .
  • Gabriele Zangs: Theodor Mintrop . In: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . Volume 90. Ed. A. Beyer, B. Savoy, W. Tegethoff. Berlin / Boston 2016, p. 18.
  • From the plow to the academy . In: The Gazebo . Issue 12, 1872, pp. 196 f . ( Full text [ Wikisource ] - about the life and work of Theodor Mintrops).

Web links

Commons : Theodor Mintrop  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appearances are deceptive: The shares of the Bergbau-Aktien-Gesellschaft Medio-Rhein from 1858
  2. ^ Wend von Kalnein (ed.): The Düsseldorf school of painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 489, cat.-no. 256
  3. ^ Gerhard Keppner: Ludger Mintrop. The man who looked into the earth. Conquering the underground . Pro Business, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86386-248-0 , p. 15 ( books.google.de )
  4. ↑ This is what it says in the parish registers of the Ludgerus Church in Essen-Werden (see Margaret A. Rose, Theodor Mintrop: Das Album für Minna, p. 12) and also in the ADB. After the AKL on April 4th. The literature also mentions April 14th and 17th, but these cannot be applicable, since Mintrop was baptized on April 9th ​​(see also Margaret Rose, p. 12).
  5. ^ Autograph and portrait of Theodor Mintrop in: Bildnisse Düsseldorfer Künstler
  6. ^ Address book of the Obermeisterei Düsseldorf, 1870 , in the forum ahnenforschung-bildet.de, accessed on August 2, 2015
  7. ^ The house where Theodor Mintrop died, Jägerhofstrasse 10 , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1894
  8. ↑ Helga Meister: Mintrops diabolical pleasure . Article from October 17, 2014 in the portal wz-newsline.de , accessed on November 22, 2014
  9. ↑ Gottlieb Sello: A rural Raffael. Theodor Mintrop, an average painter but a drawing genius . In: Die Zeit , No. 28/1963
  10. ↑ Wend von Kalnein, p. 403 f., Cat. No. 168
personal data
SURNAME Mintrop, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romantic painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Eat-becoming
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1870
Place of death Dusseldorf