Eduard Gerhardt

Eduard Gerhardt ( born April 29, 1813 in Erfurt, † March 6, 1888 in Munich) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, lithographer and architect.

  • 2.1 Sammlung Schack, Munich
  • 2.2 Angermuseum, Erfurt
  • 2.3 Behnhaus / Drägerhaus, Lübeck
  • 2.4 Klassik Stiftung Weimar
  • 2.5 Royal Collection, London
  • 2.6 other works

Life and work

Career

Gerhardt operation for many years, after appropriate training, lithography, as well as architectural representation as a draftsman and engraver, in 1832 went to Cologne to Gebr Sweeping & Niessen and then to Gottfried Semper to Dresden to study architecture, but without a degree. In 1837 he went to Munich, and devoted himself to the (oil) painting, especially of images of architecture, where he continues lithographed vedutas and architectural views.

Study Tours

In the years 1841-1845 he participated in several study trips to northern Italy, especially Venice. There he worked together with his friend Friedrich von Nerly and created views of Venice. Gerhardt had at exhibitions in Munich (1845 ) and Berlin ( 1847) a great success. It impressed a series of views of St. Mark church in Venice, King William IV of Prussia so much that he gave him stays in Spain ( Valencia et al, Grenada and Gibraltar ) and Portugal allowed. There Gerhardt made ​​known by Friedrich Gärtner, Fritz Bamberger and Egron Lundgren, with whom he also worked.

For some time he has been for Ferdinand II royal tutor in the royal court in Lisbon, before returning to 1851/52 to Munich.

Working

1834 Gerhardt created the etching Abbey of Altenberg on the Rhine; it was followed by drawings of religious buildings and other architecture images from Cologne and the Rhineland.

Other artists worked lithographs and engravings after his templates, such as in Maximilian Benno Peter Chlingenspergs of the Kingdom of Bavaria ( Franz Georg Verlag, Munich 1846).

During the stay in Spain, works were created for, inter alia Eugenie of France ( Watercolor The Hall of the Two Sisters ), the Duke of Montpensier and Prince Albert of Great Britain ( watercolors The royal palace of Pena, Portugal, Seville, The Giralda, Granada, The Court Of Lions of the Alhambra, Granada, the Generalife ).

The Prussian king acquired 52 watercolors (views from Spain and Portugal ), King Ludwig I of Bavaria bought three paintings for the Neue Pinakothek, and the Imperial Court 36 large watercolors ( Views of Venice and Spain, whereabouts unknown). Twelve of his major works ( watercolors from Spain and Portugal) were owned by Queen Olga of Württemberg and were auctioned off in 1970 in Bern. Count Adolf Friedrich von Schack bought five paintings (Moorish buildings in Granada) and employed Gerhardt as architects who designed in 1862 the first gallery building in the Sammlung Schack.

Today, inter alia, museums in Berlin have ( Prints and Drawings, and Schloss Charlottenburg ), Erfurt ( Angermuseum ), London ( Royal Collection ), Lübeck ( Behnhaus / Drägerhaus ), Magdeburg ( graphic collection ), Munich ( Neue Pinakothek, Sammlung Schack ), Potsdam ( new Palace ) and Weimar ( Graphic Collection of Weimar Classics Foundation ) works by Eduard Gerhardt's hand.

Reception and contemporary assessment

With the basis of ample training technically well-made and because of local knowledge and our own (and foreign) in - situ templates accomplished work Gerhardt met great success the taste of the time. Romanticized representations ( architecture) for detail and night - lighting effects and distinguish his works from beyond.

In Meyers encyclopedia Gerhardt is positively evaluated in 1887:

" Repeated trips and longer stay in Italy, Spain and Portugal led him particularly to cultivate the architectural painting and study for this purpose, especially the older buildings of the countries that he is in very picturesque images mostly in watercolor, sometimes in oil. With these structures, he knows both the Figurenstaffage always to connect the Scenic in a harmonious way and to make into a poetic whole, without trying to impress with its brilliant coloring. At the most perfect he has penetrated into the character of Moorish architecture, what his watercolors from the Alhambra from San Ildefonso, the Palace of the Inquisition in Cordova (1863 ), the Carmokirche in Lisbon, the churches of San Marco and Maria della Salute in Venice, and his oil paintings: the northern view of the Alhambra, prove the moon in a Spanish town, the Court Of Lions of the Alhambra, among others. "

Works (selection)

Sammlung Schack, Munich

  • The Wine Gate in Granada, 1856, oil on canvas
  • The Court Of Lions of the Alhambra, 1860, oil on canvas
  • The Generalife at Granada, 1862, oil on canvas
  • The former Palazzo Moro in Venice, 1863, oil on canvas
  • The Palazzo Vendramin at night, around 1863, oil on canvas
  • View of Comares tower at the Alhambra, 1869, oil on canvas

Anger Museum, Erfurt

  • English Cemetery in Lisbon, 1879, oil on canvas
  • Rendezvous in Granada, 1881, oil on canvas
  • 20 watercolors and drawings span. / Portug. Topics
  • Two leaves Erfurt Cathedral
  • Lithographs by cityscapes and architecture

Behnhaus / Drägerhaus, Lübeck

  • The St. Mark church in Venice, circa 1840, Watercolor

Klassik Stiftung Weimar

  • The monastery Maulbronn ( Interior view of the cloister and the vaulted hall ), 1840, graphite, gray wash and brown

Royal Collection, London

  • The Royal Palace of Pena, Portugal, about 1851
  • The Court Of Lions in the Alhambra, 1852
  • The Giralda in Seville, 1852
  • The Generalife in Grenada, 1852

Other works

  • The Inquisition Palace in Cordoba ( Purchase in 1857 by Ludwig I, whereabouts unknown)
  • The Court Of Lions of the Alhambra (purchase in 1861 by Ludwig I; Wittelsbach Compensation Fund )
  • The interior of St. Mark's Church (purchase in 1864 by Ludwig I, whereabouts unknown)
  • Family home Moro Othello in Venice, pencil / watercolor on paper, 1867, auctioned in 2006, private collection
  • View of the Scaliger Tombs in Verona ( 1845) Watercolour, auction, presumably private collection.
  • The Carmokirche in Lisbon
  • The churches of San Marco and Maria della Salute in Venice
  • San Marco, Venice ( 1864)
  • The northern view of the Alhambra
  • The moon in a Spanish town
  • The Alhambra by moonlight
  • From the Alhambra
  • From San Ildefonso

Exhibitions

During his lifetime, Gerhardt filed multiple works at Kunstverein Exhibitions one; and Others

Honors

  • Red Eagle Order 4th class by Friedrich Wilhelm IV, after returning from Spain
  • Portrait bust of 1860 on behalf of Ludwig I by Johann Halbig of
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