Wilhelm Vörtel
Friedrich Wilhelm Vörtel , actually Viertel (born April 9, 1793 in Dresden , † August 10, 1844 in Stuttgart ), was a German glass painter . At the beginning of his artistic career he worked in translucent enamel before he later switched to panel glass painting.
Life
Wilhelm Vörtel began to occupy himself with glass painting and the mixing and preparation of colors at a young age and later worked on Gottlob Samuel Mohn's commissions in the Dresden studio . Around 1811 he began studying at the Dresden Art Academy . In 1813 he volunteered in the campaign against Napoleon . Subsequently, studied further at the academy. Then he moved to Vienna in 1818 , where he supported his friend Samuel Mohn in the production of the stained glass for the windows of the Imperial Palace Laxenburg in Franzensburg . At the same time he took the opportunity and completed his studies at the Vienna Polytechnic School in specialist chemistry . In the meantime back in Dresden, he worked for the Saxon King Friedrich August II . in the royal villa in Wachwitz . He later worked in Laxenburg Palace and then moved to Munich in 1829 . Together with Melchior Boisserée and Johann Baptist Bertram , they revived glass painting and achieved great success in the development of a perfect cabinet glass painting. He was an excellent, ambitious artist in the service of both of them. Vörtel succeeded in realizing detailed reproductions of the most valuable paintings from the Boisseree and Bertram collections in glass painting. In the last years of his life he created some glass paintings for Landsberg Castle near Meiningen . After moving to Stuttgart in 1842, he was commissioned to design the glass windows for the collegiate church there. He died on August 10, 1844 in Stuttgart and was buried there.
The Dresden sculptor Ernst Rietschel portrayed him in September 1826. The drawing came into the portrait collection of Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein in the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett .
literature
- Artistisches Notizenblatt, cultural supplement of the Dresdner Abendzeitung from 1829, No. 7, p. 27 f.
- MA Gessert: History of Stained Glass . Stuttgart and Tübingen 1839, p. 272 ff.
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Vörtel, Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 51. Part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1885, p. 157 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hyacinth Holland : Vörtel, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 320 f.
- Vörtel, Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Artistisches Notizenblatt, cultural supplement of the Dresdner Abendzeitung from 1829, No. 7, p. 27 f.
- ^ MA Gessert: History of glass painting . Stuttgart and Tübingen 1839.
- ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Archives
- ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Archives
- ↑ Hyacinth Holland: Vörtel, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 320 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vörtel, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vörtel, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1793 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 1844 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |