Joseph Wintergerst
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Joseph Wintergerst (3 October 1783, Wallerstein - 25 January 1867, Düsseldorf) was a German painter in the Romantic style; associated with the Nazarene movement.
Life and work[]
He was born to the painter, Anton Wintergerst (1737–1805), and his second wife, Maria Barbara née Bux, daughter of the faience maker, Johann Baptist Bux (1716-1800).[1] After 1804, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, then the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. There, in 1809, he became one of the co-founders of the "Lukasbund" artists' guild. In 1811, he went to Rome with his friends, Friedrich Overbeck and Franz Pforr, and joined the artists' colony at Sant’Isidoro a Capo le Case.
Pforr's untimely death in 1812 left him unsettled so, in 1813, he went to Switzerland, accompanied by Aarau.[2] After 1815, he was a drawing teacher at the gymnasium in Ellwangen. In 1822 his friend, Peter von Cornelius, hired him as a drawing teacher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where Cornelius was Acting Director. Two years later, Wintergerst succeeded Peter's brother, as "Inspector" and began giving drawing lessons at the . He resigned these positions in the early 1850s and retired.
, and taught at the Cantonal school inHis sister,
was one of his students. She also became a well known painter and drawing teacher.References[]
- ^ "Stammbaum der Familien Bux und Wintergerst". In: Gustav E. Pazaurek: Schrezheimer Fayencen (Mitteilungen des Württembergischen Kunstgewerbevereins), 1908/1909, Vol.1, pg.185 (Online)
- ^ Friedrich Noack: Das Deutschtum in Rom seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Vol.2, pg.650
Further reading[]
- "Wintergerst, Joseph", In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts. Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte, Vol.2/2, Saal–Zwengauer, Boetticher’s Verlag, Dresden 1901, pg.1026 (Online)
- Eduard Daelen (1898), "Wintergerst, Joseph", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 43, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 496
- "Wintergerst, Joseph". In: Carl Brun (Ed.): Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon, Vol.4: Supplement A–Z. Huber & Co., 1917, pg.454 (Online)
- "Wintergerst, Joseph". In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon. Leben und Werke der berühmtesten bildenden Künstler, Vol.5: Vialle–Zyrlein, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt, 1921, pg.10 (Online)
External links[]
Media related to Joseph Wintergerst at Wikimedia Commons
- 1783 births
- 1867 deaths
- German painters
- Religious artists
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf faculty
- Nazarene movement
- People from Donau-Ries