Trump (pug)

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The Painter and his Pug , 1745, Tate Britain : In this still life the pug Trump sits in front of the image of his master, the painter William Hogarth .

Trump (* around 1730 , † after 1745 ) was a pug and the companion dog of the English painter William Hogarth , who immortalized him in his work. There, but also in the works of other artists, he functions as the personification of Hogarth.

history

William Hogarth owned several pugs. In 1730 he owned Pugg. In its place later came Trump, whom he depicted around 1730/35 in the group picture The Fountaine Family as a baby dog ​​and in 1738 as an adult animal in The Strode Family . In the still life The Painter and his Pug, completed in 1745, Trump sits as an aged dog next to the artist's self-portrait. Around 1746 Hogarth included his pug in the composition of the group picture Captain Lord George Graham in his cabin . There he is sitting on a chair, wearing Hogarth's wig, holding a roll of paper and looking at a sheet of music. The sculptor Louis-François Roubiliac , a friend of Hogarth, created an image of Trump as a portrait sculpture in clay that was cast in porcelain in the second half of the 1740s .

The Bruiser , 1763, Metropolitan Museum of Art

In Hogarth's pictures, the pug has the function of reflecting the artist's face in the facial features. In satirical works by Hogarth, but also by other artists (such as Paul Sandby's ), the pug symbolizes the stubborn and argumentative character that was common to the master and the dog. Trump also represents Hogarth as a kind of signature and alter ego . The latter is particularly clear in the engraving The Bruiser from 1763. The engraving, conceived as a paraphrase of the self-portrait from 1745, was Hogarth's final comment in the context of a journalistic affair involving the politician and journalist John Wilkes , in which Hogarth caused a sensation with a caricature and the poet Charles Churchill for the publication of a critical epistle on William Hogarth had provoked. As an expression of his contempt of criticism and its author, whom he described as scruffy biersaufenden bear with ripped Geneva bands as a sign of bigotry figured Hogarth let the dog urinate in this font.

In 1796 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) mentioned the pug Trump in his description of Hogarth's series of engravings A Rake's Progress (1733–1735). On the fifth record on the path of the sloppy with the title Married To An Old Maid (Married to an old maid) Lichtenberg recognized "a little tête-à-tête ": "Hogarth's eternal pug, called Trump (Trumpf), a quick man" , was "engaged in a secret conversation with an elderly creature of his kind, but of different sex" [...].

William Hogarth with Trump , 2001, statue by the sculptor Jim Mathieson in Chiswick, London

In 2001, Ian Hislop and David Hockney unveiled a bronze statue of Jim Mathieson on Chiswick High Road in London showing Hogarth with paintbrushes and palette, Pug Trump at his feet. £ 50,000 had been raised to erect the statue, initially without Trump. However, it was decided at short notice that Hogarth would not be complete without Trump, and the city shot in an amount of £ 10,000 so that Trump could sit on the pedestal next to the artist in time for the unveiling. Hogarth had lived in Chiswick from 1749 until his death in 1764 .

literature

  • William Hogarth. 1697-1764 . Catalog for the exhibition of the New Society for Fine Arts e. V. in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin from June 28 to August 10, 1980. Anabas, Gießen 1980, ISBN 3-87038-070-0 , pp. 92-107, 171-182, 209-210, 234-237.
  • Felicitas Noeske: Trump. A story of a man and a pug . In this. (Ed.): The Pug Book . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 978-3-458-34478-0 , pp. 49-58.
  • Ronald Paulson: Hogarth . Volume II: High Art and Low, 1732-1750 . The Lutterworth Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-7188-2855-0 , p. 262 ( Google Books ).
  • Larry Silver: Step-Sisters of the Muses: Painting as Liberal Art and Sister Art . In: Richard Wendorf (Ed.): Articulate Images. The Sister Arts from Hogarth to Tennyson . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1983, ISBN 0-8166-1143-2 , pp. 50, 55, 58 ( Google Books ).

Web links

Commons : Trump (Pug)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Portrait Gallery, London : Early Georgian Portraits Catalog: Hogarth , accessed July 26, 2017
  2. ↑ For the dating, an advertisement is cited in the literature that Hogarth placed under the Rublik Lost on December 5, 1730 in The Craftsman , in which, after his runaway light colored Dutch DOG, with a black Muzzle , the listened to the name Pugg, searched and promised the finder half a guinean. (Adapted from Ronald Paulson: Hogarth: His Life, Art and Times, 1971; I, p. 205)
  3. ↑ Hogarth's Dog, Trump , website in the collections.vam.ac.uk portal , accessed on July 26, 2017
  4. ↑ Noeske, pp. 52-54
  5. ↑ See Larry Silver, p. 50, Ronald Paulson, p. 261 f., James Henry Rubin: Impressionist Cats & Dogs. Pets in the Painting of Modern Life . Yale University Press, New Haven 2003, ISBN 978-0-300-09873-0 , p. 8, Robin Gibson: The Face in the Corner: Animals in Portraits from the Collections of the National Portrait Gallery . National Portrait Gallery, London 1998, ISBN 978-1-85514-230-5 , p. 16, and Ronald Paulson: Popular and Polite Art in the Age of Hogarth and Fielding . Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language and Literature, Volume 10, University of Notre Dame Press, 1979, ISBN 978-0-268-01534-3 , p. 55
  6. ↑ Noeske, pp. 55-57
  7. ↑ "The dog sees the fire of satire, prepares to extinguish it and extinguishes it." ( Footnote in Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : Der Weg des Liederlichen (1796). In: GC Lichtenbergs detailed explanation of Hogarth's copper engravings. First part. The explanation . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983, p. 218)
  8. ^ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : Der Weg des Liederlichen (1796). In: GC Lichtenbergs detailed explanation of Hogarth's copper engravings. First part of the volume. The explanation. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983, p. 218
  9. ↑ Simon Guerrier : One man and his dog . Blog, December 19, 2011; accessed on August 12, 2017
  10. ^ One man and his dog. Cast of Trump added to Hogarth statue . theguardian.com, September 7, 2001; accessed on August 27, 2017
  11. ^ Hogarth's House ( memento of October 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). (From: London Borough of Hounslow, accessed August 12, 1017)