Wilhelm of Abbema

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Wilhelm von Abbema: "The Pied Piper", etching after Rembrandt

Wilhelm von Abbema (born January 15, 1812 in Krefeld , † November 8, 1889 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter , engraver and etcher .

Life

Abbema was the son of Abraham von Abbema and his wife Anna Flea.

Abbema first began studying landscape painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1832 under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , and also trained as a copper engraver in the landscape and architecture subject . From 1832 he made the first etchings based on his own landscape drawings from the area around Düsseldorf; In 1846 he became known nationwide with the large-format, detailed sheet The Cologne Cathedral before the renewal of the building work and another view of the cathedral. Among other things, after Carl Friedrich Lessing he stabbed the well-known monastery fire (staffage engraved by Fritz Dinger ), storming a churchyard (staffage engraved by Fritz Werner ), hunters at a campfire and the leaves of the evening landscape, with the deer and the two owls in the forest , evening landscape , with a derelict house in the forest , a forest landscape, with a waterfall and heron and a forest landscape, with a stony brook and a sparrowhawk , a Norwegian landscape based on August Cappelen (1827-1852), a Nordic pine forest in the snow with rune stone based on Andreas Achenbach , a landscape based on Caspar Scheuren in the character of the Rhine , three landscapes after Johann Wilhelm Lindlar (1816-1896), palm forest (1865) and jungle on Ceylon (1866) after Hermann von Königsbrunn and others after Karl Ross and others.

On April 17, 1850, he married Wilhelmine Pott, a daughter of Johann Wilhelm Pott and his wife Sara Carolina von der Dellen in Düsseldorf. The son Leo von Abbema (* 1852) became an architect .

literature

  • Athanasius Graf Raczýnski: History of modern German art (3 volumes). Berlin 1836–1841.
  • J. [ohann] J. [oseph] Scotti: The Düsseldorf painter school or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836 and also before and after. A font for expressing a few thoughts. Düsseldorf 1837, pp. 81, 109.
  • Abbema, Wilhelm von. In: Meyer's Artist Lexicon. Volume 39, p. 7. ( retrobibliothek.de ).
  • Andreas Andresen (Hrsg.): Handbook for copper engravers or lexicon of engravers, painter-etchers and shape cutters of all countries and schools according to their most valued sheets and works. Volume 1, Leipzig 1870.
  • Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history I-1,2. Dresden 1891/1901.
  • Abbema, Wilhelm von . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 12 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • General artist lexicon. Lives and works of the most famous visual artists , prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller, edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer. Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / Main 1921, Volume 1.
  • Emmanuel Bénézit , Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume 1, 1976.
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , p. 39 (fig.).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, status: November 2016): Abbema, Wilhelm von, 1832–1834 studied at the Art Academy under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (PDF) , on smkp.de, accessed on April 12, 2017
  2. ↑ Civil Stand - Born: August 12, 1852: Leo S. of the engraver William of getting sprayed, Orangerie street in Düsseldorf Journal and Circular (No. 199), from August 20, 1852
  3. ↑ Abbema, from Leo, architect, partner in the company: Tüshaus uv Abbema , in the address book of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf, 1883
personal data
SURNAME Abbema, Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver and eraser
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1889
Place of death Dusseldorf