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Christian Eduard Boettcher, or Böttcher ( 9 December 1818 in Imgenbroich – 15 June 1889 in Düsseldorf), was a German painter whose work comprised portraiture and genre painting.

Christian Eduard Boettcher
Christian Eduard Boettcher 1871
Born(1818-12-09)9 December 1818
Imgenbroich
Died15 June 1889(1889-06-15) (aged 70)
NationalityGerman
Occupationpainter

Career


Christian Eduard Böttcher by Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl (1858)
Christian Eduard Böttcher by Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl (1858)

Boettcher first attended the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart under Johann Heinrich von Dannecker from 1833 to 1838 and trained as a lithographer, working as such for the Ebner'sche Verlagshaus (Ebner's publishing house), in Stuttgart and for the Arnz & Comp. lithographic institute in Düsseldorf.

From 1844 to 1849 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under the history painter Theodor Hildebrandt and in the master class of Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow. After completing his studies, he settled in Düsseldorf. In 1848 he was one of the founding members of the Malkasten artists' association, of which he was a member of the board for a time. He was a member of the Verein der Düsseldorfer Künstler (Association of Düsseldorf Artists), and the academic association, Orient. Boettcher was appointed professor at the Düsseldorf and Academy of Arts in 1872.


Artistic activity


In his work Boettcher concentrated primarily on figurative paintings, initially preferring - under the influence of landscape painter Carl Wilhelm Hübner - socially critical themes, for example with the paintings Der Blinde und sein Führer (1845) and Die Entlassung des Gefangenen (1848). In the 1860s and 70s, he produced paintings that combine the depiction of people, towns and landscapes on the Rhine between Bingen and Cologne, and whose subjects are occasionally in the tradition of painter and graphic artist Adolph Schroedter. Deviating from the latter's often satirical and critical approach, however, Boettcher's popular compositions emphasise a late Romantic sentimental mood, for example in Haymaking on the Rhine (1856) as well as Evening on the Rhine (1860) and Summer Night on the Rhine (1862) both of which show identifiable Düsseldorf artists in front of an inn, and Rhenish Harvest near Sinzig (1864). Further paintings include The Tourist on the Rhine (1865), presumably showing the painter Adolf Seel, Country House on the Rhine (1866), Excerpt for the Grape Harvest (1867), At the Market Fountain of a Rhenish Town (1870), and Rhine Journey at the Loreley (1880).

Boettcher as portrait painter and draughtsman is depicted, among others, within portrait drawings of the painters Carl Gottfried Eybe and Hermann Werner. His own portrait was painted by Ernst Bosch, and another by Adolf Line, and also a caricature, are held by the Malkasten artists' association in Düsseldorf.

Lithographs after his works were published in the Düsseldorfer Künstleralben (Düsseldorf Artists' Albums) and in the Sammlung von Lithographien nach Genrebildern Düsseldorfer Künstler (Collection of lithographs after genre paintings by Düsseldorf artists), with his wood engravings in many illustrated sheets of the time.


Significant works


Children's play on the farm (1857)
Children's play on the farm (1857)
At the market fountain in Bingen (1870)
At the market fountain in Bingen (1870)

Further reading and sources




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[de] Christian Eduard Boettcher

Christian Eduard Boettcher (* 9. Dezember 1818 in Imgenbroich; † 15. Juni 1889 in Düsseldorf; auch Christian Eduard Böttcher) war ein deutscher Maler.
- [en] Christian Eduard Boettcher



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