Wilhelm Nerenz

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Wilhelm Nerenz (born August 10, 1804 in Berlin ; † October 23, 1871 there ) was a German genre and history painter and representative of the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

Life

Nerenz spent the first years of study under the guidance of Wilhelm von Schadow in Berlin. Then he was busy with restoration work in the royal picture gallery in Berlin. He followed Schadow to Düsseldorf, where he attended his first painting class at the academy from 1833 to 1836 and made friends with Adolph Schroedter and the young Alfred Rethel . After his return to Berlin he worked on genre-like legend and ballad motifs in a romanticizing approach, mostly in small and medium-sized pictures. He made trips to Dresden and in 1847 to Rome.

Technically and compositionally at the high level that characterizes almost all early Schadow pupils, his works stood out for their particular care in detail and an extraordinary mastery in the representation of materiality. However, the Düsseldorf academy professor Rudolf Wiegmann saw "in his painstakingly executed pictures" a "sweet paperback romance, which undoubtedly has contributed not a little to discrediting romance in general".

His son was the consul general Carl Nerenz .

Works (selection)

Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, wedding scene , 1836 - In this picture Nerenz portrayed his master Wilhelm Schadow and some fellow students.
  • “Des Goldschmieds Töchterlein”, cycle in 4 pictures after Uhland, 1834
  • "Das Käthchen von Heilbronn", cycle in 5 pictures after Kleist, 1836 (Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast )
  • "Homecoming" (Berlin, National Gallery)
  • "Damsel with lute", 1832 (Marburg, University Museum)
  • “The Little Gardener”, 1834, oil / wood, 39 × 24.5 cm
  • "The girl with the rose", Academic Art Exhibition Berlin 1834
  • “The Wedding”, 1836, oil / canvas, 82.5 × 92.5 cm
  • “The encounter in the armory”, 1836, oil / canvas, 45 x47.5 cm
  • "Young knight at the armorer", 1840 (Berlin, National Gallery)
  • "Transport of Captured Bandits", 1854

Many of his works were reproduced as wood engravings and lithographs for the illustrated magazines of the time and made his work known.

Illustrations

Digitized editions of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

  • In: Robert Reinick: Songs of a painter with drawings by his friends. - between 1836 and 1852.
    • Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. Schulgen-Bettendorff, Düsseldorf 1836, test print, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-2196 .
    • Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. Schulgen-Bettendorff, Düsseldorf 1838, color portfolio edition, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-18668 .
    • Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. Schulgen-Bettendorff, Düsseldorf 1838, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-18244 .
    • Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. Buddeus, Düsseldorf between 1839 and 1846, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-84 .
    • Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. Vogel, Leipzig approx. 1852, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-18254 .

Literature (selection)

  • Nerenz, Wilhelm. In: Georg Kaspar Nagler (Hrsg.): New general artist lexicon. Volume 10: Müller, Jan. – Passe, Wilhelm de. EA Fleischmann, Munich 1841, pp. 185-186 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
    • Nerenz, Wilhelm. In: Georg Kaspar Nagler (Hrsg.): New general artist lexicon. 3rd edition, Volume 11: Morghen, Filippo – Overbeck, Friedrich. Schwarzenberg & Schumann, Leipzig 1936, pp. 285–286 (Unchanged reprint of the EA Fleischmann edition, Munich 1835–1852, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Georg Caspar Nagler, Andreas Andresen, Carl Clauss (eds.): The monogrammists. Volume 4. Hirth, Munich 1871, p. 790 (Fig. 2 monograms).
  • Rudolf Wiegmann : The Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Their history, origin and effectiveness and the Düsseldorf artists. Verlag der Buddeus'schen Buch- und Kunsthandlung (Ed. Schulte), Düsseldorf 1856, pp. 238–239 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Wilhelm Nerenz. In: Adolf Rosenberg : The Berlin School of Painting 1819–1879. Studies and Reviews. Berlin 1879, p. 183 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Nerenz, Wilhelm. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, pp. 135-136 ( archive.org ).
  • Nerenz, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931.
  • Hans Paffrath: Masterpieces of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 16, illustration p. 17: "The wedding".
  • Siegfried Weiss : Nerenz, Wilhelm. In: Hans Paffrath, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Volume 3, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , pp. 30–32, 3 illustrations: “The little gardener”, “The wedding”, “The encounter in the armory”.
  • Lionel von Donop :  Nerenz, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 431.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Nerenz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 137 f., No. 117 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Nerenz, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1871
Place of death Berlin