Ferdinand Becker
Joseph Ferdinand Becker ( born July 2, 1846 in Gonsenheim; † August 21, 1877 in Munich), also known as the "Painter Becker ", was a painter of images of saints and scenes from fairy tales in the 19th century.
The father Ferdinand Becker led in the Rhine-Hessian village near Mainz Gonsenheim the economy " The Golden Star". One day, the four-year Ferdinand with chalk painted a hunting scene on the wall of the taproom, showed a guest, who was an art connoisseur, very impressed with the painting of the boy.
After completion of the primary school in 1860 Ferdinand wanted to be trained in painting, but his father stopped him because he steadfastly argued: "My son can not live by the art of painting ". In Fuhr machine operators, the young Ferdinand was an occupation that was to loaded cars with stones and to follow them on foot to dump the stones back at the destination. But at night he secretly painted his room.
The painter Gustav August Lasinsky who worked at churches in Mainz in the 1860s, finally realized the artistic talent Ferdinand Becker and trained him. From 1865 to 1868 restored Lasinsky together with his student Becker Mainz Parish Church of St. Ignatius. Impressed by Beckers workmanship, Lasinsky gave the young painter for further training at Professor Eduard Jakob von Steinle at the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main. Ferdinand Becker held at this Institute on 19 November 1868 to 30 April 1877, and during this period he also wrote most of his works.
His best-known painting is The Roland squire, a watercolor from cycle 5 images in a frame; The Roland Squire was made famous by exhibitions in Frankfurt, Berlin and Gonsenheim and found everywhere well received. Together with the city of Mainz acquired the Mainz Kunstverein this image for 4,000 marks. It is today as a testimony of Nazarene art holdings of the National Museum Mainz.
Made famous by the success of his squire Roland in art circles, Ferdinand Becker received from an art dealer in Munich the contract for two more works. End of April 1877 the painter traveled Becker to Munich, where he undertook his studies in the following months for this order in nature. In early August 1877, he became seriously ill and was sent to a Munich hospital; there, his condition improved initially, then deteriorated but within a short time drastically. On August 21 1877 Ferdinand Becker died in Munich on typhoid fever. His body was taken to his birthplace and at the old cemetery Gonsenheimer, now pastor Grimm conditioning, buried. His grave monument was translaziert later on the Gonsenheimer Forest Cemetery.
In Mainz Gonsenheim a street and a school named after Ferdinand Becker, the painter -Becker Street and the Painters -Becker - school.
Works
- St. Pancras in the dungeon, oil painting
- Rubezahl, market women frightening (1869-1870), oil painting
- The Virgin with the Child (1870 ), oil painting
- Saint Vitus (1870 ), oil painting
- Busts of saints (1870-1871), wall paintings in the Chapel of the Prince Lowenstein in Klein -Heubach am Main
- Frederick with the bitten cheek ( end 1871 - beginning 1872)
- The altarpiece in the church of St. Peter of Mainz (1872 ),
- More images of saints in Schloss Löwenstein Klein Heubach (1873 ), wall paintings
- Frauenlobstraße in Mainz (1873 ), oil painting
- Brother and Sister (1873-1874) after the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm
- The Jew in the spine (1874-1875) after the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm
- The Roland Squire (1876 ) based on the story of Roland's squire Johann Karl August Musaeus