Theodor von der Beek

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Theodor von der Beek (born March 21, 1838 in Kaiserswerth ; † March 15, 1921 in Düsseldorf ) was a German portrait and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

life and work

The dairymaid Mirl , illustration after a painting by Theodor von der Beek in the magazine Die Gartenlaube , 1891

Initially employed in the business of his father, a beer brewer, von der Beek entered the elementary class of Andreas Müller at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1856 , switched to the painting class of Carl Ferdinand Sohn in 1859 and was in Eduard Bendemann's master class from 1862 to 1866 . In addition to portraits, including numerous self-portraits, he created multi-figure compositions in the landscape or in rural milieus and interiors that are reminiscent of works by Ludwig Knaus , Benjamin Vautier or Carl Hübner , and others. a. The bridal shoes (1872, 1874), a pawn game (1880) or panic terror (1885). In the 1890s, travels took him to southern Germany and Spain and inspired him to new pictorial subjects, including a. The Royal Tobacco Factory in Seville or Arabic Dance . He participated in many exhibitions, also outside of Düsseldorf, for example in Berlin (academic art exhibitions in 1881, 1883, 1884, 1892; anniversary exhibition in 1886; international art exhibition in 1896), Dresden (1883), Glasgow (1887), London (1877, 1896 , 1898), Munich (1879, 1883), Hamburg (1887), Salzburg (1886) and Vienna (1888). His most successful picture creations appeared as wood engraving reproductions in illustrated magazines, such as Panischer Schrecken ( Daheim , 1882), Pilgrims at the Ferry and A Duet ( Over Land and Sea , 1881 and 1887) or Ein Pfänderspiel ( Die Gartenlaube , 1882). Von der Beek was a member of the Malkasten artists' association .

There are in museum collections

literature

  • Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century, contribution to art history. Volume 1, No. 1, Dresden 1891.
  • Hermann Board : Beek, Theodor von der . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 164 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Beek, Theodor von der . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961.
  • Jürgen A. Wollmann: The Willingshausen painters 'colony and the Kleinsassen painters' colony. Fulda 1992
  • Sabine Schroyen (arrangement): Sources on the history of the artists' association Malkasten. A center of bourgeois art and culture in Düsseldorf since 1848. Cologne 1992, p. 229.
  • Beek, Theodor von der . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 .
  • Siegfried Weiss : Theodor von der Beek. In: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , pp. 106, 108-109 (fig.).

Web links

Commons : Theodor von der Beek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventory list , website in the portal malkasten.org , accessed on February 7, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Beek, Theodor von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserswerth
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1921
Place of death Dusseldorf