Henry Ritter

Henry Knight ( born May 24, 1816 in Montreal, † December 21, 1853 in Dusseldorf ) was a German - Canadian painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School.

Artistic Career

Ritter was born the son of a standing in the British service Hanoverian officer and an Englishwoman in Montreal. Early orphaned, he came to his uncle in Hamburg. After a commercial apprenticeship (1832 ) Knight Carl Groeger received first lessons in painting at the Hamburg portrait painters Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath and Friedrich. In 1833 he attended the Sunday School of the Art Academy Professor Carl Ernst Thelott in Dusseldorf. From 1836 to 1847 he was a student at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, in the classes of Karl Ferdinand Sohn ( 1836/37, 2nd class ) and Wilhelm von Schadow ( 1838/39, 1st class). 1840 to 1847 he was a member of the master class and had his own studio in the Academy building. 1837 to 1838 he had taken parallel private lessons with Rudolf Jordan, who became his close friend and the Knight 's preference informed fishermen for the milieu of the sea and that they kept traveling to the North Sea coast in the study leaves and genre pictures. A study trip led him in 1839 to England and Scotland. In 1842 he married Anna E. Wind from Düsseldorf streets, who bore him two daughters. Because of a disease ( " brain fever " ) moved in 1848 by Ritter Seligenthal the Bergisch land, but returned again in 1852 to Dusseldorf, where he died on 21 December 1853 at the age of 37. Knight's artistic heritage came to Ferdinand Fagerlin, who also was a genre painter for coastal motifs. Fagerlin married the late 1850s knight daughter and took over his studio and his estate.

From 1849 until his death knights was an active member of the artist association paintbox. From 1844, he had also belongs to the circle of the paintbox precursor Crignic, a democratically -minded, intent on independence from the Academy of Fine Arts Association, which contained the initials of the surnames of its founding members in their strange names: Gustav Canton, Henry Ritter, Rudolf Jordan, Hans Fredrik Gude, Rudolf von Normann, Nikolai Frederik Jensen and William Campenhausen.

The publication downsides of the Düsseldorf, together with condensed views of their past performances, are shown in the 19 individual portraits of Düsseldorf painters in their studios together with Campenhausen illustrated Ritter 1845. Three publishers brought out the work, Hering & Remington in England, Goupil & Vibert in France and the Düsseldorf book and art dealer Julius Buddeus.

As of 1847 provided illustrations for the knights satirical magazine Düsseldorf Monatshefte, which published the painter Lorenz Clasen until the end of 1849. 1849 Knight published the work The political Struwwelpeter. An attempt to unification of Germany; the German Michel dedicated a collection of twelve colored illustrations. This work from pictures and verses to stories about different art figures, knights modeled after the 1845 published book docked Der Struwwelpeter, the political situation handled during the German Revolution of 1848 / 49th

In the tradition of Jordan Knight developed a great ethnographic interest. This was reflected not only in terms of its many scenes from the life of the sea and fishermen, for example in 1844 created image The drowned fisherman's son (pilotage son ) whose elements were thoroughly prepared through detailed for authenticity attempted studies. It also manifests itself with regard to the particularly fascinating in the 19th century European design Indians, such as the image formed in 1851, the prairie fire. One of his drawings shows how he took part in 1838 at the birthday party of the Belgian painter Auguste Chauvin in disguise, similar in allusion to his Canadian origin with Indian costume and headdress, a character from the novel The Last of the Mohicans. Adelbert von Chamisso's poem speech of the old warrior Colorful Snake in the council of the Creek Indians Knights illustrated with a drawing showing an advisory group and fuming Indians is reflected in more detailed clothing and headdress.

Pictures showing the Knights themselves, can also be found on a leaf in the publication downsides of the Düsseldorf (1844 /45, here with his two daughters in Düsseldorf studio ) with and in Friedrich Bosers friendship gallery of 26 individual portraits of the Düsseldorf School of Painting and friends images show the Düsseldorf artists in gallery hall of the Academy ( 1840-1853 ).

Works (selection)

  • News of the Battle of Leipzig, 1839
  • The braggart in the Sailor Pub, 1841
  • Shipwreck ( storm on the coast ), 1841
  • Marriage request in Normandy, 1842
  • Marriage proposal ( Axe Foundation)
  • On the coast
  • Prayer on the emigrant ship
  • The news of his death
  • Summer
  • Spring
  • The poacher
  • Fight against smugglers on the English coast
  • The English prisoners
  • English
  • Anglers and other illustrations in the book Washington Irving. Selection from his writings, published by Brockhaus, Leipzig 1856
  • The drowned fisherman's son (pilotage son ), 1844
  • The political Struwwelpeter, twelve colored plates, 1849
  • The Prairie Fire, 1851
  • The letter to the family, 1852
  • Middys sermon, 1853
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