Wilhelm Heine

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Peter Bernhard Wilhelm Heine (born January 30, 1827 in Dresden , † October 5, 1885 in Kötzschenbroda , today Radebeul ; also William Heine ) was a German painter , writer and traveler .

Live and act

Landing of Commodore Perry, officers & men of the squadron, to meet the Imperial commissioners at Yoku-Hama July 14th 1853 , lithograph by Sarony & Co., 1855, after Wilhelm Heine

Heine studied at the Dresden Art Academy and with Julius Hübner , then went to Paris for three years to study . After his return to Dresden he worked as a theater painter and art teacher. Because of his participation in the uprisings of 1848/1849 , supported by Alexander von Humboldt , he had to flee to New York in 1849 , where he opened a studio on Broadway . At the invitation of the archaeologist and diplomat Ephraim George Squier , he also traveled to Latin America in 1851 , represented Squier as consul until he arrived after him, and documented and painted many native plants ( traveling pictures from Central America , 1853). Back in Washington, DC , he met President Millard Fillmore and Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, and the following year he joined Perry's expedition to Japan . As a member of his staff, he managed to make many drawings of Edo , which was then still banned from foreigners . On his return to New York, these and many others were published in 1855. This was followed by his memories Journey around the World to Japan (2 vols., Leipzig, 1856), which later (1859) was followed by a third or supplementary volume under the title The Expedition to the Lakes of China, Japan and Okhotsk (Leipzig, 1859) followed. Shortly afterwards, Japan and its residents (Leipzig, 1860) appeared as a separate work , which is also based on experiences and studies in connection with this trip.

In Berlin in 1860 Heine received an invitation to take part as a travel painter on the Prussian Eulenberg expedition to East Asia. During this trip he met in Jokohama the Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin, who was returning to Europe after his escape from Siberia.

Back in the USA, Heine became one of the Forty-Eighters , the Europeans who had fled the 1848 Revolution and who mostly took part in the American Civil War on the side of the Union troops. Heine was a surveyor (engineer) captain in the Potomac Army and rose to Brigadier General in 1865. In between, Heine published his main work in 1864, A journey around the world around the northern hemisphere in connection with the East Asian expedition in 1860 and 1861 (Leipzig, 2 volumes). After the American Civil War he became consul of the USA in Paris and later in Liverpool .

Finally he returned to Dresden in 1871 and wrote his last book Japan, Contributions to the Knowledge of the Country and Its Residents (Berlin, 1873–80). Around 1880 he settled in Niederlößnitz at Augustusstraße 7 (today Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße 24). From 1883 he lived at Meißner Straße 45 (today's house number: 269) in Kötzschenbroda . This last residence Heine has meanwhile been demolished.

Works

Wikisource: Descriptions from America  - Sources and full texts
  • Hiking pictures from Central America . (Leipzig 1853)
  • Trip around the earth . 2 vols. (Leipzig 1856)
  • The expedition to the lakes of China, Japan and Okhotsk . (3rd volume of 'Reise um die Erde', Leipzig 1859, digitized version in the Berlin State Library )
  • Japan and its people . (Leipzig 1860, digitized version in the National Library of Slovenia )
  • A summer trip to Tripoli . (Berlin 1860)
  • A world tour around the northern hemisphere . (Leipzig 1864)
  • Japan (folio) (Dresden 1873–1875; popular edition: 1880)

literature

  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
  • Viktor Hantzsch:  Heine, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 135-141.
  • Sebastian Dobson: Separate views: Wilhelm Heine and Albert Berg in Japan. / Split Visions: Wilhelm Heine and Albert Berg in Japan. In: Sebastian Dobson & Sven Saaler (Hg./Eds.): Under the eyes of the Prussian eagle. Lithographs, drawings and photographs of the participants in the Eulenburg expedition in Japan, 1860–61./ Under Eagle Eyes. Lithographs, Drawings & Photographs from the Prussian Expedition to Japan, 1860–61. Munich 2012 (2nd, revised edition), pp. 125–191.
  • Sebastian Dobson: Unintended Consequences: Photography and the Eulenburg Expedition. / Unintended Consequences: Photography and the Prussian East Asian Expedition. In: Ibid., Pp. 255-315.
  • Andrea Hirner: Wilhelm Heine. A world-traveling painter between Dresden, Japan and America . Radebeul 2009.
  • Andrea Hirner: "The life and travels of Wilhelm Heine." In: Forays through ancient Japan. Philipp Franz von Siebold, Wilhelm Heine. Published by Markus Mergenthaler on behalf of the Knauf Museum Iphofen. Dettelbach 2013, pp. 74-99.
  • Bruno J. Richtsfeld: Wilhelm Heine's Japan painting in the State Museum of Ethnology in Munich . In: Munich contributions to Völkerkunde 13, 2009. pp. 211–240.
  • Bruno J. Richtsfeld: "Impressions from Japan. The Japan paintings attributed to Wilhelm Heine in the State Museum of Ethnology in Munich." In: Forays through ancient Japan. Philipp Franz von Siebold, Wilhelm Heine. Published by Markus Mergenthaler on behalf of the Knauf Museum Iphofen. Dettelbach 2013, pp. 100–117.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b written information from the Radebeul City Archives to user: Jbergner on November 10, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Heine, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heine, Peter Bernhard Wilhelm; Heine, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, writer and traveler
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1885
Place of death Kötzschenbroda , today Radebeul