Willem Linnig the Younger

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Willem Linnig the Younger (born August 28, 1842 in Antwerp ; † September 3, 1890 there ) was a Belgian portrait and genre painter and etcher . In addition, part history painting to his oeuvre .

Willem Linnig the Younger
Willem Linnig the Younger:
Self-portrait in his studio

Life

Willem Linnig the Elder J. was initially a student of his father Willem Linnig the Elder and then at the age of 17 went to Jan Antoon Verschaeren (1803–1863) at the Antwerp Academy , the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, for 1½ years . He later followed his father to Weimar for further studies , where he was a professor at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School until 1883 .

From 1876 to 1882 Linnig also held a professorship at the Weimar Art School. His students included Hermann Schlittgen , Paul Baum and Leopold von Kalckreuth . Back in Antwerp in 1882, he mainly devoted himself to historical scenes. Willem Linnig died shortly after the age of 48 and was buried in the Antwerp Schoonselhof cemetery.

plant

An important phase in Linnig's work are three works that depict scenes from Martin Luther's life. Their client was the Grand Duke Carl-Alexander von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach . Eighteen large pictures were created in which scenes from Luther's life from school to death were shown. From 1869 onwards, the pictures were created by painters from the Weimar Art School within 13 years: In addition to Linnig, the German Paul Thumann (5) and the Belgians Ferdinand Pauwels (7) and Alexander Struys (3). The paintings were intended for the so-called Reformation rooms on the Wartburg .

family

Willem Linnig came from an Antwerp artist dynasty in the 19th century. In addition to his father, his uncles and brothers were also artistically active. His grandfather was already a painter, and his brother Benjamin's daughters also became active painters.

  • Peter Joseph Linnig (1777–1836), grandfather - painter
    • Jan Theodor Joseph Linnig (1815–1891), uncle - marine and landscape painter, eraser, engraver
    • Willem Linnig the Elder (1819–1885), father - history and genre painter, etcher
      • Willem Linnig the Younger
      • Égide Linnig the Younger (1844–1908), brother - painter
      • Benjamin (Ben) Linnig (1860–1929), brother - photographer and eraser (ex-libris)
        • Zoë Linnig, niece - painter
        • Diane Linnig, niece - painter
    • Égide (Egidius) Linnig (1821–1860), uncle - marine and landscape painter, etcher

Works (selection)

Willem Linnig the Younger:
Portrait of Franz Liszt
  • 1866 Antwerpsche Volksbruiloft.
  • 1875 Portrait of Willem Linnig the Elder in his studio
  • 1875 De Kosten van het Gelag.
  • 1876 The Anabaptists.
  • 1876 Reconciliation of the Counts of Mansfeld.
  • 1877 The gypsy woman. and the old instrument maker. (Art exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, Berlin)
  • 1879 Luther's visit to the plague sufferers (Wartburg).
  • 1880 Luther's sermon against the indulgence trade (Wartburg).
  • 1880 Luther's marriage to Katharina von Bora (Wartburg).
  • 1880 Karlstadt and the iconoclasts.
  • 1880 De Krabbe.
  • 1861 Two revelers. (Two Drinkers), etching
  • 1881 Portrait of Friedrich Preller , etching
  • 1882 Head of a Gypsy, etching
  • 1883 portrait of the composer Franz Liszt , etching

literature

  • Paul André: Le Peintre Willem Linnig, Junior & catalog de l'oeuvre complète de l'artiste par Ben. Linnig. Éditions de la Belgique artistique & littéraire, Brussels 1907 (French, archive.org )
  • Linnig, Willem, the son. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 884 ( archive.org ).
  • Linnig, Willem the Elder J. In: HA Müller , HW Singer : General Artist Lexicon. Volume 3, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / M. 1921, p. 15, ( archive.org ).
  • Linnig, Willem Junior. In: Dictionnaire des peintres belges. (French, digitized version )
  • Linnig, Willem junior . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 256 .
  • Walther Scheidig: The History of the Weimar School of Painting 1860-1900. Seemann, Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-363-00538-5 .
  • Jutta Krauß (ed.), Grit Jacobs: Luther's pictorial biography: the former Reformation rooms of the Wartburg. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2647-7 .

Web links

Commons : Willem Linnig Junior  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grave site of the Linnig family on schoonselhof.be (Dutch)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f images at Bildindex.de
  3. ↑ Heinz Stade: Exhibition on Wartburg shows facets of the Reformation: 'Luther's picture biography - the former Reformation rooms'. Thüringer Allgemeine , May 16, 2012, accessed on August 24, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b c illustrations In: Pol de Mont : De schilderkunst in België van 1830 to 1921 . Martinus Nijhoff, 's Gravenhague 1921, plates 71–73
  5. ↑ Linnig, Willem Junior: Portrait of Willem Linnig Senior in his atelier . Europeana. Retrieved August 20, 2015.
  6. ↑ Image at archive.org
  7. ↑ a b images at akg-images.de
  8. ↑ Figure Philadelphia Museum of Art
personal data
SURNAME Linnig, Willem the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linnig, Willem Junior; Linnig II, Willem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian history, portrait and genre painter and eraser
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1890
Place of death Antwerp