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Joseph Wintergerst

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Joseph Wintergerst; portrait by Friedrich Overbeck (c. 1813)
Hagar Being Presented to Abraham

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

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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 Christian Xeller [de], and taught at the Cantonal school in 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, Lambert Cornelius [de] as "Inspector" and began giving drawing lessons at the Royal Gymnasium [de]. He resigned these positions in the early 1850s and retired.

His sister, Maria Barbara Wintergerst [de] was one of his students. She also became a well known painter and drawing teacher.

References

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  1. ^ "Stammbaum der Familien Bux und Wintergerst". In: Gustav E. Pazaurek: Schrezheimer Fayencen (Mitteilungen des Württembergischen Kunstgewerbevereins), 1908/1909, Vol.1, pg.185 (Online)
  2. ^ Friedrich Noack: Das Deutschtum in Rom seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Vol.2, pg.650

Further reading

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  • "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 (in German), vol. 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)
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