Wilhelm Dürr the Elder

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Wilhelm Dürr the Elder: Portrait photo by Conrad Ruf , around 1870/80
Johann Nepomuk Bader and Kunigunde Bader by Wilhelm Dürr the Elder, 1854

Wilhelm Dürr (born May 9, 1815 in Villingen ; † June 7, 1890 in Munich ; called: the elder ) was a German painter.

Life

At the instigation of his father Fidelis Dürr , music teacher and choir regent at the Villingen Minster , he came to the Vienna Art Academy in 1830 . There he first learned genre painting . His role models were Josef Danhauser , Johann Matthias Ranftl and Peter Fendi . He then worked in Leopold Kupelwieser's studio , where he was enthusiastic about history painting and turned to the Nazarenes . He was in Rome twice; first two months in 1839, the following year in 1840, after visiting the cities of Venice and Bologna, he stayed in Rome until 1842. There he joined the group around Ernst Deger , Franz Ittenbach , Andreas and Karl Müller , who together form the Apollinaris Church painted in Remagen. A special encounter was the one with the painter Carl Rahl , who is said to have saved his life while bathing in Lake Nemisee .

As a result of illness, he returned to Baden in 1843 and took up his apartment in Freiburg , where he married Berta Gruny in 1844. In 1847 he was one of the founding members of the Freiburg artists' society Ponte Molle .

In the following years he received orders for numerous altar paintings in Baden and Alsatian churches. In 1852 he was appointed court painter . In addition to portraits of the royal court, he made copperplate engravings, for example for Johann Peter Hebel's Alemannic poems .

Wilhelm-Dürr-Strasse in Freiburg

In 1874 he was awarded the Knight's Cross First Class by the Zähringer Lion Order. In 1887 he moved to his son Wilhelm, who was also an artist (* August 24, 1857; † February 23, 1900) in Munich and died there in 1890. His grave is in the old northern cemetery .

Large parts of the graphic estate and more than 30 paintings are in the Augustinermuseum in Freiburg. The Franciscan Museum Villingen-Schwenningen owns further works . A street is named after him in the Waldsee district of Freiburg .

style

“He wasn't a colorist . Despite a conventional treatment, which was not wrongly accused of his pictures, they betray warmth of feeling and full devotion to the subject of the depiction "

- Friedrich von Weech

Works (selection)

Grave site of Wilhelm Dürr in the old north cemetery in Munich
  • The four evangelists and the Ascension of Christ , Ludwigskirche Freiburg
  • The salvation. Laurentius , church in Kenzingen
  • Laurentius on his way to death by fire on the grate , Neudenau church
  • Christ blesses the children , parish church in Villingen
  • Baptizing St. Boniface , Princely Art Collection in Donaueschingen
  • Count Palatine Friedrich the Victorious and the rough warning , pencil, chalk, aqua and opaque colors on cardboard, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
  • St. Gallus preaches the Gospel to the Alemanni on Lake Constance , oil / canvas, 1861, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
  • James baptizes Joshua and the Annunciation , 1866, Pfullendorf, St. Jakob
  • Karlsruhe artist in a painting exhibition , 1882, oil a. Lw., Augustinian Museum
  • Coronation of Mary and a Pietá (colossal image in the church in Schliengen)
  • Cross picture of the high altar, oil on canvas, 1880, St. Veit, Dittigheim near Tauberbischofsheim
  • Altar painting St. Blasius, Ascension of Christ and St. Fridolin ( triptych ), 1880, St. Blasien Cathedral
  • Depiction of Ecce Homo on the left side altar (1862) as well as Joseph's portrait (1870, today: west wall of the sacristy), parish church of St. Blasius in Glottertal

literature

  • Wilhelm Dürr the Elder . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 5, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 249.
  • Hermann Alex. Müller: Dürr, Wilhelm , in: Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon , Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 150.
  • Friedrich von Weech :  Dürr, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 212.
  • Julius Dieffenbacher: The Alemannic painter family Dürr. For the hundredth birthday of the court painter Wilhelm Dürr . In: Schau-ins-Land 42, 1915, pp. 1-40
  • Engelbert Krebs : Ponte Molle. Two artists companies in Rome and Freiburg i.Br . In: Schauinsland 42, 1915, pp. 41–57.
  • Josef Liebermann: Villingen personalities in the university and intellectual life of the city of Freiburg , in: Badische Heimat Heft 1/1957, S. #.
  • Josef Fuchs: Wilhelm Dürr . In: Annual booklet history and local history association Villingen . 3rd year 1977
  • Andreas Greulich: Dürr, Wilhelm . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 30, Saur, Munich a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-598-22770-1 , p. 320.
  • Ulrike Laule, Konrad Hauser: Four pictures by the court painter Wilhelm Dürr in St. Urban in Freiburg-Herdern . In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv 125, 2005, pp. 379–383

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Dürr the Elder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Medard Barth: St. Fridolin and his cult in the Alemannic area. An attempt . In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv 75, 1955, p. 172 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Location and history of the parish church , accessed on December 2, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Dürr, Wilhelm the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dürr, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Villingen
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1890
Place of death Munich