Werner Schuch

Werner Schuch (born October 2, 1843 in Hildesheim , † April 24, 1918 in Berlin ; full name: Werner Wilhelm Gustav Schuch ) was a German architect , university professor and painter .

Life

Werner Schuch: View from Taormina to Mount Etna

Schuch studied architecture at the Hanover Polytechnic from 1860 to 1864 . Here he joined the Slesvico-Holsatia country team, later the Slesvico-Holsatia Corps . He was a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase , in whose architecture office he worked until 1866 after completing his studies. He then worked for Adelbert Hotzen as a construction manager for the renovation of the collegiate church St. Materniani et St. Nicolai in Bücken . After a stay in Paris in 1866/1867, he worked as a private architect in the Prussian provinces of Hanover and Westphalia . From 1868 he worked as an architect for the Hamburg-Venloer Bahn in Osnabrück.

In 1872 Schuch began teaching at the Hanover Polytechnic (from 1879: Hanover Technical University ). Here he was appointed professor of architecture in 1875. Schuch ended his teaching activity in 1883 when he worked exclusively as a freelance painter. Schuch had already joined the Hanover Art Association in 1871 and had been intensively involved in painting since 1872. In 1876/1877 he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . After retiring from teaching as an architect, Schuch first settled in Munich and later in Berlin and Dresden. His painterly work mainly includes historical and battle pictures, including one of his main works, the mural Die Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig from 1888 in the Ruhmeshalle Berlin in the Zeughaus Berlin . In addition, Schuch created some landscape paintings.

Honors

• 1886: Small Golden Medal of Art

literature

• Georg Nordensvan : Schuch, Werner . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 24 : Ryssläder secretary . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1916, Sp. 1197 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• Axel Holck : Schuch, Werner . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 21 : Schinopsis spectrum . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1926, p. 72 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
• Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover 1931, p. 564.
• Schuch, Werner . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 308 .
• Ludwig Schreiner: The paintings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Lower Saxony State Gallery Hanover. Text volume, Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover 1973, p. 437 f.
• Günther Kokkelink , Monika Lemke-Kokkelink : Architecture in Northern Germany. Architecture and handicrafts of the Hanover School 1850–1900. Schlueter, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-538-4 .
• Hugo Thielen : Schuch, Werner Wilhelm Gustav. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 324 ( books.google.de ).
• Schuch, Werner (Wilhelm Gustav) . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 9 : Schlumberger – Thiersch . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-096502-5 , p. 245 ( books.google.de - excerpt).
• Hugo Thielen: Schuch, Werner Wilhelm Gustav. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 551.

Web links

Commons : Werner Schuch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 100 years of Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention. Bochum 1963, pp. 140-141.
2. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, kunstpalast.de PDF).