Wilhelm Volkhart

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Georg Wilhelm Volkhart (born June 23, 1815 in Herdecke , † March 14, 1876 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf School .

life and work

Wilhelm Volkhart: Lenardo and Blandine (after Gottfried August Bürger )

Volkhart made his studies at the Royal Prussian Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Theodor Hildebrandt from 1831 to 1840 and then belonged to Wilhelm von Schadow's master class until 1846 . His first work Christ as a Good Shepherd , created in 1834 , was followed by several pictures from the romantic saga and the historical genre , in line with the romantic trend of the time , then several from the life of Maria Stuart .

In 1846 and 1847 he stayed in Rome , where he was encouraged to write an imaginative depiction of the death of Belshazzar , Mattathias in 1848 , the pagan altar to "Modeïn" (the exact location of the ancient location of the biblical site at Modi'in is not known) overturning, followed.

After his return to Düsseldorf he painted the visit of Charles IX. and Katharina von Medici with the wounded Coligny , in 1850 the breakfast of Duke Alba with the Countess von Rudolstadt and then a scene of the bloody deed in Weinsberg , namely the Countess von Helfenstein's plea for the life of her husband. It is also known that he created a picture with the then popular motif Wallenstein and Seni (see Wallenstein's death ). Later he devoted himself particularly to portrait painting .

Wilhelm Volkhart was a member of the artists 'association Malkasten and the Hamburg artists' association from 1832 and since the end of the 1850s the owner of a house at Logenstrasse 30, later renamed Victoriastrasse. Victoriastraße was a former connecting road between Schadowstraße and Goltsteinstraße . He died in Düsseldorf in 1876 at the age of 60.

His son Max , born in 1848, was also a painter. The sculptor and wax boss Claire Volkhart was his granddaughter.

Illustrations (selection)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventory list Malkasten: Volkhart, Wilhelm (1815–1876)
  2. ↑ Logenstrasse 30, Volkhart, Maler E. , in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf, 1859
  3. ↑ Victoriastraße 30, Volkhart, Maler , in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office Düsseldorf, 1867, p. 84
  4. ↑ Volkhart, Wilh., Maler, Victoriastraße 30 , in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf, 1870, p. 155
personal data
SURNAME Volkhart, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volkhart, Georg Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Herdecke
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1876
Place of death Dusseldorf