Ludwig Emil Grimm

Ludwig Emil Grimm ( born March 14, 1790 in Hanau, † April 4, 1863 in Kassel) was a painter ( professor ), an etcher and engraver. He was the brother of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

Life

Born on March 14, 1790 in Hanau, Ludwig Emil Grimm enthusiastic early for nature and writes in the Stoll 1911 published "Memories of my life ": "It was a wonderful time, as we so swarmed in the forest solitude, where it was so lonely and quiet! " from 1803 to 1805 attended the Lyceum Grimm in Kassel, and then studied at the Academy in Kassel. 1809 to 1817 he studied at the newly founded Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, which was interrupted from January 1814 to June 1814 by a volunteer military. 1829 Ludwig Emil Grimm became engaged to the 26 -year-old Marie Boettner, whom he married in 1832. A year later came his daughter Friederike, also called " Idekchen " to the world. In 1832 he received the long-awaited appointment as a professor and teacher of historical painting class at the " Academy of Fine Arts" in Kassel. His wife died in 1842; In 1844 he married again, the daughter of the theologian and General Superintendent Christoph Friedrich W. Ernst, Friederike Ernst. His last work began Ludwig Emil Grimm 1860 until health problems made ​​it impossible to draw. On April 4, 1863, he died as a result of pneumonia.

Work

First, the young Grimm received instruction at the Academy in Kassel by Professor Kobold, shortly after he joined Professor Runge. In addition, he received private lessons in drawing at Galerie inspector Professor Robert. After a short teaching time that he spent with Professor manner in which he only learned little in their own words. Ludwig Emil Grimm came by 1808 to Munich for the engraver Carl Ernst Christoph Hess, under whose direction he made soon with the etching needle and later with the burin proficient; but he later drew the etching needle and joined only where it required strength and harmony, with the former, the cold needle. In these years Grimms artistic activities consisted mainly in drawing, erasing, and in copying paintings from the Hofgalerie. Later erased Grimm own compositions, landscapes, animals, best images. His treatment of the needle is free, the articles are by gehends pure, delicate and sometimes run to completion. After he participated in the wars of liberation, he returned in 1814 to Kassel back, visited in 1816 for only two months Italy and then worked until the beginning of 1818 in Munich. This year he brought self-published a folder entitled " etched sheets according to the nature " out the etchings included for the most part of his trip to Italy. Thanks to the relations of his brothers to the academic community in Göttingen created the youngest Grimm commissioned portraits of scholars, professors and doctors. So Ludwig 1823 erased first the first series, in 1826 followed by the second. Herman Grimm sees in these works the impetus to further orders of this kind So Ludwig portrayed later the poet Heinrich Heine and the violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini. With Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern he founded in 1825 Willing houses artists' colony. In 1832 he became professor at the Academy in Kassel. From this time on his artistic life was rather quiet and he mainly worked on refining his technique. Was on the trip in 1850 to Steinau and Nuremberg, where he accompanied by his sister, daughter and second wife, a wallet, made ​​as a travel diary, the excursion. From 1860 his work comes to a standstill due to health problems. Ludwig Emil Grimm in 1863 dies from the effects of pneumonia.

Particularly well known are mainly the portraits of his brothers Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob Grimm, as well as the drawing of the "fairy woman " Dorothea cattle man from the year 1814. 1819 was an etching from this drawing. This unusual presentation of a fairy tale ornament band gave Wilhelm Grimm in the years 1815, realized this, however, until 1819 when the second edition of the "Children 's and Household Tales ". Several existing studies here show the development of drawing to the finished etching by Ludwig Emil Grimm. In the second edition of the Grimms' fairy tale collection, the first image is in addition to a fairy tale of Grimm, the frontispiece to " brother and sister ", also created by Ludwig Emil Grimm. Thus, the young Grimm brother instrumental in the development of the "Children 's and Household Tales ", which are today considered one of the most popular and most read books worldwide. Also known is his Madonna in a landscape with Joseph, George and Augustin. A collection radierter sheets containing historical accounts, genre paintings, Heads, portraits and landscapes, he gave in 1840 with a title page: the storyteller, out, whichever factory in 1854 yet was followed by 30 sheets as a supplement.

Descendants list of the Grimm Family

Heinrich Grimm ( born December 12, 1637 Bergen- Enkheim, † September 11, 1713 in Dörnigheim ) ∞ June 2, 1670 Juliane Marie Pezenius ( born July 2, 1653 Dillenburg, † February 8, 1692 in Hanau )

Ludwig Emil Grimm Prize

Since 2012, awards the town of Hanau, the Ludwig Emil Grimm Prize. The award is endowed with 10,000 euros, of which more 7000 Euro for the grand prize. The addition to the price of 3,000 euros is intended for young artists up to the age of 25 years. Major and minor prize will be awarded alternately annually.

• 2012: Grand Prize: Hans Traxler ( born 1929 ), artist, journalist and writer

Writings

• Memories from my life. Edited and supplemented by Adolf Stoll. Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1911 ( digitized ).