Wilhelm title

Wilhelm title

Wilhelm Titel (born February 16, 1784 in Boltenhagen , † March 24, 1862 in Greifswald ) was a German painter and academic drawing teacher at the University of Greifswald .

Life and accomplishments

Wilhelm Titel was the first child of pastor Friedrich Andreas Gotthilf Titel (* May 23, 1748 in Trieglaff ; † May 31, 1819 in Boltenhagen ) and his wife Christina Juliana Kellmann (* December 11, 1758 in Wolgast ; † February 5, 1834 in Boltenhagen). He first began studying theology at the University of Greifswald , which he soon gave up in favor of painting. He received his training in 1801 at the Dresden Art Academy and from 1802 to 1806 at the Vienna Art Academy . In Vienna he was influenced by the French painter René Theodore Berthou (1776-1859). From 1806 to 1819 he lived in Italy , mostly in Rome and Florence , where he lived with Jakob Philipp Hackert .

In 1819 he returned to Western Pomerania after the death of his father and initially worked as a portrait painter in Stralsund. In 1826 he succeeded Johann Gottfried Quistorp as a university drawing teacher in the drawing room of the University of Greifswald, now the Caspar David Friedrich Institute . He made studies after old Italian masters and many characteristic portraits of university professors, which are now hanging again in the council hall of the University of Greifswald. In addition, he also painted northern German landscapes. In 1851 he was appointed professor.

Titel donated his study collection to the University of Greifswald while he was still alive. A stock of 124 sheets is preserved there today.

literature

• Vogt: Memoirs of the painter Wilhelm Titel . In: Pommersche Jahrbücher , 3 (1902), pp. 159–178.
• Greifswald painters of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Painting - graphics. Museum of the City of Greifswald, Greifswald 1963.
• Title, Wilhelm . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 440.
• Klaus Haese : The Greifswald painter Wilhelm Titel, a contemporary of Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld . In: Gerd-Helge Vogel (Ed.): Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld and the Art of Romanticism: Publication of the contributions to the VII Greifswald Romantic Conference in Schneeberg, organized by the Caspar David Friedrich Institute at the University of Greifswald from September 30th to September 3rd October 1994. Greifswald 1996.
• Stephan Kohls: The study collection of the academic drawing teacher Wilhelm titles. In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. Issue 1/2008, ISSN  0032-4167 , pp. 30-35.
• Otto Schmitt, Victor Schultze (Ed.): Wilhelm Title Portraits Greifswald Professors: To the 475 year old. Anniversary d. Univ. Greifswald. Bamberg council bookstore, Greifswald 1931.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Well-known personalities from Neu Boltenhagen: Wilhelm Titel (1784–1862)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Mentioned by Theodor Pyl:  Quistorp, Johann Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 55 f.
3. ↑ Well-known personalities from Neu Boltenhagen: Wilhelm Titel (1784–1862)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

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

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Title in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Wilhelm titles in the state bibliography MV