Ferdinand Pauwels

Ferdinand Wilhelm Pauwels ( [ pʌu̯əls ]; born April 13, 1830 in Ekeren in Antwerp, † March 26, 1904 in Dresden) was a Belgian painter of historical scenes.

Life

At the age of twelve years Pauwels 1842 students at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts Antwerp and was most often taught there until 1850 by Jules Dujardin and Gustave Wappers. During his training, he could debut successfully in the Academy exhibitions; his work Coriolanus at Rome in 1852 awarded the Prix de Rome.

Connected with this price was a generous scholarship that Pauwels and 1856 allowed for a study stay at the Villa Medici in Rome. Pauwels be held on his return in 1856 to some time in Dresden, before he settled as a freelance artist in Antwerp.

1862 Pauwels took a reputation as a professor at the founded two years earlier Ducal Art School Weimar and taught there for ten years with great success numerous pupils, including Max Liebermann. In parallel, emerged during this time many of his oil paintings, but also his well-known " Luther " cycle at the Wartburg, seven murals of the life of Martin Luther.

In 1872, Pauwels returned to Belgium and worked the next four years freelancing again. In 1876 he was appointed to Dresden Art Academy, where he again nachkam as a professor his teaching job. During this time he also created a group of six murals in the auditorium of the Prince's School of Meissen. Pauwels died in 1904 in Dresden and was buried in the Old Catholic Cemetery.

Reception

The public and critics admired among others, the clever implementation of historical topics. While in Pauwels early works still biblical scenes ( " Deborah as a judge " ), so this has changed over the years to political statements ( "America creates slavery "). In addition to the content of his works especially his game was praised with the colors. The begun by Charles de Groux cycle of twelve murals in the Cloth Hall of Ypres could complete Pauwels.

Works (selection)

  • Meeting of Baldwin I. with his daughter Johanna ( 1851)
  • Coriolanus at Rome, overcome by the tears of his mother (1852 )
  • Deborah as a judge
  • Respa, the wife of Saul, on the bodies of their sons (1856 )
  • The Jacobs van Artevelde Widow (1857, Museum at Brussels )
  • The exiles of the Duke of Alba (1861 )
  • The appeal of Saint Clare
  • Ghent citizens against Philip the Bold
  • America abolishes slavery,
  • Scenes from the persecution of the Protestants in the Netherlands (Königsberg, Municipal Museum )
  • Queen Philippines, the poor donating in Ghent Help
  • Louis XIV receiving the deputation from the Republic of Genoa (Munich, Maximilianeum )
  • The visit of Count Philip of Alsace in St. Mary's Hospital in Ypres (1877, Dresden Gallery )
  • Joanna of Flanders is on Good Friday 1214 captives free

Honors

  • Prix ​​de Rome
  • Order of Leopold
  • The large golden medal of the Berlin exhibition.
  • In Antwerp, a street was named after him

Students (selection)

  • Josef Günther
  • Karl Gussow
  • Karl Ernst Hansel
  • Ferdinand von Harrach
  • Max Liebermann
  • Otto Piltz
  • Leon Pohle
  • Paul Poetzsch
  • Osmar Schindler
  • Robert Sterl
  • Paul Thumann
  • Emil Zschimmer
  • Oskar Zwintscher
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