Franz Nadorp

Franz Johann Heinrich Nadorp ( born June 23, 1794 in Anholt, † September 17, 1876 in Rome ) was a German painter. He belonged to the group of artists of the Nazarenes in Rome.

Life

Franz Nadorp came from a long-established Anholter family of artists, he was the only son of Mr and Mrs Johann Theodor Nadorp and Gertrud Anna Stroof. After his education at the Anholt City school he joined at age 20 by a fellowship of his country gentlemen Prince Constantin of Salm- Salm in the Prague Academy of Arts, where he trained as a history painter with his teacher Joseph Bergler. Nadorp was the favorite pupil of Joseph Bergler quickly. Already in 1822 he received the gold medal of the Prague Academy of Arts. When in 1826 his mentor died in Prague, Nadorp broke his tents from Prague and returned in 1827 for a few months in his hometown Anholt back.

In the fall of 1827 Nadorp traveled with his companions Prince Franz of Salm- Salm to Rome. The city of Rome drew at the time of the German artists, such as Peter Cornelius, Friedrich Overbeck and Julius Schnorr. Franz Nadorp was quite fast in the group of German artists, the " Nazarenes " were rightly called. He was one of the founders of the Roman Künstlerbund (1829 ) and the German Artists' Union (1845 ). The years 1840-1850 are among his most fertile. Numerous drawings topographic contents have survived.

During this time, Franz Nadorp met the King Ludwig I of Bavaria know, both shared a friendship. 1859 Nadorp received by King Frederick William IV of Prussia his first government contract. Nadorp left Rome only rarely in the nearly 50 years of local work. In 1862 he returned for a short time back in his hometown of Anholt. For his baptismal church of St. Pancras, he created an altarpiece " The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple" and drew the located shortly before the demolition old town church in Anholt. 1876 ​​granted him Prince Alfred I. zu Salm -Salm an annuity.

Nadorp, which is considered a italienisierender romantic German painting, died shortly thereafter in Rome and Campo Santo Teutonico buried at the next St. Peter in the Vatican. His entire estate was transferred to the Princes of Salm -Salm and can still be seen today in the Museum Wasserburg Anholt and in the parish church of St. Pancras Anholt.