Wilhelm Joseph Heine

Portrait of Wilhelm Joseph Heine, sitting on the chair on the right, in Johann Peter Hasenclever's studio scene , 1836

Wilhelm Joseph Heine (born April 18, 1813 in Düsseldorf ; † June 29, 1839 there ) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Heine may have lived in Bremen and studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1827 to 1837 . After Heinrich Christoph Kolbe's preparatory class , he was a student of Theodor Hildebrandt . In 1836/1837 he attended Wilhelm Schadow's 1st class . He is one of those painters who - inspired by David Wilkie - developed the genre painting as “free art” and expressed their interest in the political, social and economic processes of their time and took a committed position ( trend painting ) . In addition to Heine, this group includes in particular Johann Peter Hasenclever , Carl Wilhelm Huebner , Peter Schwingen , Adolph Schroedter , Henry Ritter , Wilhelm Kleinenbroich and Ludwig Knaus . The picture Service in the prison church, painted by Heine in 1837 , probably shows - leaning against a dark column - Friedrich Ludwig Weidig , a convicted Vormärz activist from the circle around the writer Georg Büchner , in a group of political prisoners at the prison service in the prison in Darmstadt . This picture is considered to be the first politically critical painting from the Düsseldorf School of Painting.

Works (selection)

• Self-portrait in weaver clothing , 1832
• The poachers , 1833
• The poacher on the lookout , 1834
• The Smuggler , 1834
• The tramps , 1835
• The ripped jacket , 1835
• Farmhouse , 1836
• Divine service in the prison church , 1837, Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf (one of a total of three versions, further versions in the Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, 1837, and in the National Gallery Berlin , 1838)
• The glasses dealer , 1838

literature

• Hanna Gagel: The Düsseldorf School of Painting in the Political Situation of the Vormärz . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 70 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon . Sixth volume (Haspel. – Keim.), Verlag EA Fleischmann, Munich 1838, p. 62 ( Google Books ).
2. ↑ Hanna Gagel, p. 70.
3. ↑ Kathrin DuBois: Carl Wilhelm Hübner and the consequences . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 2, p. 303 (Catalog No. 253).
4. ↑ See description of the picture by Anton Fahne : The Düsseldorf School of Painting in 1834, 1835 and 1836 . Verlag JHC Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 68 ( Google Books ).