Wilhelm Kretschmer
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Kretschmer (born December 26, 1806 in Hanover ; † April 3, 1897 there ) was a German teacher , draftsman , painter and lithographer .
bw photo by Wilhelm August Degèle in the Ernst August album from 1861/62 of a gouache by Kretschmer originally multicolored around 1850
Life
The son of a painter from Hameln , Wilhelm Kretschmer was born in 1806 in the then still independent Calenberger Neustadt . At the age of six, Wilhelm became an orphan. He probably received his first training from the Hanoverian painter Justus Elias Kasten .
From 1830 Kretschmer studied at the art academy in Munich , and from 1835, back in Hanover, in the landscape room (destroyed by the air raids on Hanover in World War II) of the Leineschloss, to paint the cycle Palaces and Castles of the Guelphs .
In 1840 Kretschmer married the civil servant's daughter Charlotte Luise Emilie Leonhardt († May 20, 1860 in Hanover), the sister of the Hanoverian Justice Minister Adolf Wilhelm Leonhardt .
In 1842 Kretschmer became a member of the Art Association for the Kingdom of Hanover .
As the successor to the retired drawing teacher Winkelmann, Kretschmer worked from Michaels from 1849 to 1874 as a drawing teacher at the Hanoverian Lyceum (former name of the Ratsgymnasium ).
Meaning and effect
Kretschmer's numerous views of striking buildings and squares - especially in Hanover and the surrounding area - became known, among other things, for their great accuracy. According to Helmut Plath, "we [Kretschmer] owe a large part of the tradition of the Hanoverian street scene of the [19th] century." The Historical Museum on the Hohen Ufer preserves lithographs by Kretschmer in particular . With artistic freedom, countless steel engravers have also used Kretschmer's works as models for steel engraving "copies".
In Klein-Buchholz , the Kretschmerhof, built in 1955, commemorates the artist.
Works
- Wilhelm August Degèle photographed a chalk drawing by Kretschmer showing the study of the late King Ernst August . The photo was included in the Ernst August album , published in 1862, in memory of the inauguration of the Ernst August monument . released.
In addition to countless drawings and lithographs from Hanover and the surrounding area, Kretschmer also created:
- Cycle castles and palaces of the Guelphs
The works from two albums from Wilhelm Kretschmer's estate are largely unpublished. A pencil drawing from it is the pencil drawing of the Rütli meadow, scanned from the original, which Kretschmer drew during an educational trip with his son in Switzerland.
literature
- Helmut Plath : Hanover in the Picture of the Centuries , 1964, page 104 (images on pages 57, 79 and 89)
- Professor Bernhard Dörries, Helmut Plath: Old Hanover / The history of a city in contemporary images from 1500–1900 ; Fourth, improved edition 1977, Verlag Heinr. Feesche, Hanover. Page 140 (images on pages 64, 67, 70, 71, 74, 94, 105, 106, 109, 110, 114, 116 to 119); ISBN 3-87223-024-7
- Hugo Thielen , 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. 367.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franz Kössler : Kretschmer, Wilhelm , in the: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century , as a PDF document from the Justus Liebig University in Giessen
- ↑ Ernst August album ; Digitized by the Getty Research Institute via the Internet Archive , p. 222; on-line:
- ↑ Ernst-August-Album , proof on page XI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kretschmer, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kretschmer, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher, draftsman, painter and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1897 |
| Place of death | Hanover |