Adolf Schrödter

Adolph Schroedter ( born June 28, 1805 in Schwedt / Oder, † December 9, 1875 in Karlsruhe ) was a German painter and printmaker of the Düsseldorf School of Painting and is considered a pioneer of German comics.

Life

Adolph Schroedter was born in 1805 the son of an engraver. He learned since 1820 in Berlin as a student of graphic artist Ludwig Buchhornplatz the engravers art, but devoted himself since 1827 painting at the Berlin Academy of Art, and went in 1829 to Wilhelm von Schadow to Dusseldorf, where he remained until 1848. Then he lived in Frankfurt, but returned in 1854 back to Dusseldorf. Since 1847 Schroedter participated by socially critical and political drawings to Düsseldorf Monatshefte. 1848-1849 Schroedter worked with Johann Hermann Detmold at the parody deeds and opinions of the Lord Piepmeyer, deputies to the Constituent Nationalversammlaung to Frankfurt am Mayn.

1859 received Schroedter a reputation as a professor of ornamentation at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic and remained so until 1872. 1854 was the Grand Duke of Baden, Frederick I, the Grand Duchy of Baden School of Art in Karlsruhe established and appointed as its first director, the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer in Dusseldorf. This was followed in 1855 Ludwig Des Coudres Professor of figure painting and 1858 Carl Friedrich Lessing as a gallery director.

Family

Adolph Schroedter was married since 1840 with Alwine Heuser ( 1820-1892 ) from Gummersbach, who was a niece of Henriette Jügel and became known as flower and Arabeskenmalerin. Their older sister, Ida Heuser, 1841 was the wife of the painter Carl Friedrich Lessing. A daughter Schroedter, Malwine, married in 1871 the painter and later director of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, Anton von Werner.

Selections

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2009/2012: Adolf Schroedter. Humor and poetry in Biedermeier, at the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe

Illustrations (selection)

Digitized editions of the University and State Library Dusseldorf:

• In: Album German poet / With 36 original drawings by German artist when: A. von Schroeter, JB special country, Theod. Hosemann, A. Menzel, v. Kloeber, F. Holbein, Rosenfeld, etc. - Berlin: Hofmann, 1848 - Digitized edition.
• In: Adelbert von Chamisso 's works. Volume 4: Poetry. Adel Bert's fable. Schlemihl. - Leipzig: Weidmann, 1836 - Digitized edition.
• In: German artist album in Originalradirungen. - Dusseldorf: Buddeus, 1841 Digitized edition.
• In: German album art and poetry. With woodcuts after original drawings of the artist, executed by R. Brend'amour. Edited by Friedrich Bodenstedtstraße. - Berlin: Grote, 1867 Digitized edition.
• Your friends are a wonderful fiancee Adolf Schrödter and Allwiena Heuser: September 1839; Dusseldorf Gummersbach. Dusseldorf, 1839 Digitized edition
• Exploits and opinions of the Lord Piepmeyer, drawings: Adolph Schroedter, Text: Hermann Detmold, Carl Jügel: Frankfurt 1849 ( books 1-6 and book )
• In: German seals with marginal drawings German artist. - Dusseldorf: Buddeus, ( Volumes 1-2 ) 1843 Digitized edition.
• In: Eichrodt, Ludwig. German boy book: one hundred figures in words and pictures. - Lahr: Schauenburg, 1864 Digitized edition.
• In: Friedrich Rückert 's love spring. - Frankfurt a M: Sauerland, half way between 1861 and 1874 Digitized edition.
• In: Women's breviary for Home and World: A selection of the best passages from well-known writers on women's lives and women's education. - Leipzig: Amelang, 1893 (7th ed.) digitized edition
• In: Reinic, Robert. Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. - Took place between 1836 - 1852. Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. - Dusseldorf: Schulgen - Bettendorff, 1838, colored wallets output. digitized edition
• Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. - Dusseldorf: Schulgen - Bettendorff, 1838 Digitized edition.
• Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. - Dusseldorf: Buddeus, half way between 1839 and 1846 Digitized edition.
• Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. - Leipzig: Vogel, 1852 Digitized edition.

Adolf Schroedter possessed an uncommonly versatile talent. He has proven to be a painter, illustrator humorous seals, as an engraver, engraver, woodcut draftsman and lithographer, as a political satirist and writer, as a botanist, Blumist and creator of the most charming ornaments and arabesques. He is a little square and baroque in the drawing, but always witty, ingenious and of a inexhaustible inventiveness. He was one of the happiest representatives of healthy humor. His conception of Don Quixote has become typical. For Monogram S. had chosen the corkscrew, which he in an original leaf: , allegorical glorified the dream of the bottle.

He also excelled in frieze-like compositions, such as: Rheinische Bauer fair ( painted on gilded zinc plate, 22 m long, 65 cm high, 1847), The triumph of the king of wine ( 1852), Rhine wine, Maitrank, punch and champagne (1852 ), the four seasons (1854, exhibition of Karlsruhe), which he executed in watercolor, among other things, also he provided illustrations for " Peter Schlemihl " Musaeus ' " folk tales ," Uhland works etc. and Detmold ' life and deeds of deputies beep Meier " (1848 ). He wrote: " Drawing as an aesthetic education means " ( Frankf. 1853) and gave a "school of watercolor painting" ( Brem. 1871) out.