Wilhelm Bridge
Johann Wilhelm Brücke (born March 4, 1800 in Stralsund , † April 1, 1874 in Berlin ) was a German architecture and landscape painter .
Life
Johann Wilhelm Brücke was one of seven sons of the Stralsund goldsmith Johann Gottfried Brücke. The father had owned house no. 3 in Stralsund's Mühlenstraße since 1798, which was later only called the Dielenhaus . An older brother was the history painter Johann Gottfried Brücke .
After finishing school in his hometown, Brücke enrolled at the Berlin Art Academy . He was taught by Johann Erdmann Hummel, among others . Supported by his teachers and supported by a small scholarship , Brücke went to Rome in 1829 . During this time he depicted Roman architecture as well as the landscape and the people in his pictures. His vedute , which he often only drew and only executed in oil after his return to Berlin, was considered particularly successful , as was the case with his painting “ View of the Capitol in Rome ”, the preliminary drawing of which is now in the literature archive of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar . In the fall of 1834, Brücke turned his back on Italy and settled in Berlin as a freelance painter. Here he regularly participated in the art academy's annual exhibitions until the end of his life.
Brücke found his own style very early on, but in his later work, especially with a few views of the palace from Berlin and Saint Petersburg , he approached the painter Eduard Gaertner artistically . Brückes work attracted attention long after his death. In 1906 he was represented with some pictures at the exhibition of the century of German art in Berlin.
Brückes' paintings are visually characterized by their reddish coloring and are therefore relatively easy to recognize. The attraction of the painting The Old Berlin City Hall in Spandauer Strasse , created in 1840, lies in the skilful representation of the architecture of the rows of houses, which still appears to be small-town here, but above all in the portrayal of the colorful bourgeois life that takes place on the street.
A ring road in Stralsund that was newly built in 2017 bears the name Wilhelm-Brücke-Ring .
gallery
The old Berlin City Hall in Spandauer Strasse , 1840, Stadtmuseum Berlin
View of the Capitol in Rome , 1835, Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover
Opera square with Neuer Wache and armory, 1843 Märkisches Museum
Street under the linden trees with a castle
The palace of Friedrich Wilhelm III. in Berlin
Parade in front of the Kronprinzenpalais 1839, Märkisches Museum
View of the monument of Frederick the Great on Unter den Linden, 1855
View of the Neue Wache in Berlin in 1842, Lower Saxony State Museum
Berlin Zeughaus 1828, formerly in the Berlin Palace
literature
- Gerhard Hansen (Ed.): Wilhelm Bridge . Galerie unter den Linden, Berlin 1851. (exhibition catalog)
- Irmgard Wirth: Berlin painting in the 19th century . Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-572-10011-9 , p. 195.
- Berlin Museum - cityscapes . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung and Verlag Willmuth Arenhövel, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-87584-212-X , p. 537.
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1421 .
Web links
- Works by Wilhelm Brücke at Zeno.org .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Neumerkel: From Dielenhaus to Kampischer Hof , Ostsee-Zeitung Stralsund, February 2, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bridge, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stralsund |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1874 |
| Place of death | Berlin |