Ernst Hildebrand

Ernst Wilhelm Hildebrand ( born March 8, 1833 in Falkenberg / Elster, † November 17, 1924 in Berlin) was a German painter.

Life

Ernst Hildebrand was a son of Falkenberger manor owner and later Sorauer station master Karl Hildebrand and his wife Emma, née Lemm. He was a student of Carl Steffeck in Berlin, where he was apart from spending a year in Paris, and subsequently operate. In 1875 he was appointed professor at the School of Art in Karlsruhe. From there he moved in 1880 to the Academy of Arts in Berlin. However, his teaching, he gave up in 1885.

Initially, Hildebrand devoted exclusively of decorative painting, but then turned to genre painting, which mainly dealt with the figures of Luther and Queen Louise. In the nineties, he put the emphasis on the portrait painting. His pictures are distinguished in these years according to contemporary tastes by showy color, but sometimes slide into a routine salon art from.

Hildebrand also worked for the court circles and painted among which the Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess of Baden and the German Crown Prince and his family. With a Tullia, which drives her team over the corpse of her father in 1886, he ventured an attempt in the field of history painting. In addition to pictures to literary works, such as a representation of Gretchen in prison, he also created portraits of professors of his time, such as a portrait of the astronomer Arthur Auwers. His portrait of Karl Möbius in 1895 is owned by the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Ernst Hildebrand's brother, Max (1839-1910) was a precision mechanic and manufacturer of optical devices.

Works

Hildebrand's works were used for illustrations of books. Are known as such

• Adolf Kiepert: Hannover in word and image, text by Adolf Kiepert, ed. the Association for the promotion of tourism in Hanover, with 286 illustrations from original paintings and original drawings by Diekmann, Fiermann, Professor Hammel, Professor [ Ernst ] Hildebrand, Professor Jordan, Ramberg, Professor Schaper, poles, Ulbrich, as well as photographic original recordings, ( Nachdr of ed ) Hannover, Kiepert, 1910, 2nd edition - Hannover: Schlütersche, 1981, ISBN 3-87706-181-8, p.18