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Johann Peter Hasenclever (18 May 1810, Remscheid - 16 December 1853, Düsseldorf) was a German genre painter, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

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Life and work

His father, also named Johann Peter Hasenclever (1784–1864), was a toolsmith; involved in the local iron trade. In 1825, he went away to school in Ronsdorf and moved into the home of his teacher, Johann Peter Fasbender, who recognized and encouraged his talent for drawing. When he was seventeen, he enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, under the direction of Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, but left after only two years, when Schadow expressed serious doubts about his abilities. He made a second attempt in 1836, studying with Theodor Hildebrandt, who was a great admirer of Dutch Golden Age art. At that time, genre painting was relatively new to Germany, so this had a significant influence on Hasenclever's choice of subject matter.

His first success followed his move to Munich in 1838, where he was commissioned to create illustrations for the satirical poem Jobsiade [de], by Carl Arnold Kortum; the story of a "perpetual student", who ends up working as a night watchman. He created twenty paintings that were lithographed for the book. One of them, "Hieronymus Jobs at the Exam", was acquired by King Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1840. Three years, he returned to Düsseldorf as a famous painter and was named a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts. It was during this time that he became known for his depictions of everyday life in the Biedermeier period.

Shortly after returning, he married Caroline Anna Babette (1821–1895), said to be the illegitimate child of Major Alois Trentini (1790–1864) and Babette Winter, a blacksmith's daughter from Munich.[1] They had three children, Carolina Laura Louisa (b.1844), who became a teacher, and two sons. Their first son, Peter (1847–1920) was a drawing professor at a gymnasium in Munich. Their second son, Ernst (b.1852), apparently became a painter, although little is known about him.

He took part in the political activities of the Vormärz, and was one of the first painters in Germany to produce art with social commentary. He became a member of the anti-academic artist's association, "Crignic", which gave rise to the organization known as "Malkasten" (Paintbox) and. from 1847, was a contributor to the satirical Düsseldorfer Monathefte [de]. When the revolution of 1848 broke out, he became a deputy platoon leader for the vigilance committee.

He died of typhus, aged only forty-three.[2] Shortly before his death, Karl Marx had praised his work in the New York Daily Tribune, specifically citing his painting "Worker's Delegation Before the Magistrate", as an example of proletarian art. In the 1960s and 70s, this would lead to a renewed interest in his works within the German Democratic Republic; beginning in 1964, when the art historian, Wolfgang Hütt, started to investigate Marxist elements in the paintings of the Düsseldorf school.

Selected paintings

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  Worker's Delegation Before the Magistrate
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  The Reading Room
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  A Scene in the Studio
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  Hieronymus Jobs at the Exam

References

Further reading

• Moritz Blanckarts (1879), "Hasenclever, Johann Peter", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), vol. 10, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 732–733
• Stefan Geppert, Dirk Soechting (Eds.): Johann Peter Hasenclever (1810-1853). Ein Malerleben zwischen Biedermeier und Revolution, Zabern, 2003 ISBN 978-3-8053-3099-2
• Irene Markowitz (1969), "Hasenclever, Johann Peter", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 8, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 26–27; (full text online)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Johann Peter Hasenclever.

• More works by Hasenclever @ ArtNet
• Literature by and about Johann Peter Hasenclever in the German National Library catalogue
• Denise Steger: "Johann Peter Hasenclever" (Biography and notes) @ the Portal Rheinische Geschichte

На других языках

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[de] Johann Peter Hasenclever

Johann Peter Hasenclever (* 18. Mai 1810 in Remscheid; † 16. Dezember 1853 in Düsseldorf) zählt zu den bedeutendsten deutschen Malern des 19. Jahrhunderts. Hasenclever war als Mitglied der Düsseldorfer Malerschule Begründer einer sozialkritischen und ironischen Genremalerei in Deutschland und mit seinem Münchener Zeitgenossen Carl Spitzweg ein Wegbereiter von Wilhelm Busch.

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- [en] Johann Peter Hasenclever

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[fr] Johann Peter Hasenclever

Johann Peter Hasenclever (né le 18 mai 1810 à Remscheid, mort le 16 décembre 1853 à Düsseldorf) est l'un des artistes prussiens les plus importants du XIXe siècle. Membre fondateur de l'École de peinture de Düsseldorf, il réintroduit la scène de genre avant Carl Spitzweg et Wilhelm Busch.

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[it] Johann Peter Hasenclever

Johann Peter Hasenclever (Remscheid, 1810 – Düsseldorf, 1853) è stato un pittore tedesco noto soprattutto per la sua pittura di genere.

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[ru] Газенклевер, Иоганн Петер

Иоганн Петер Газенклевер (также Хазенклевер; нем. Johann Peter Hasenclever 18 мая 1810, Ремшайд — 16 декабря 1853, Дюссельдорф) — немецкий живописец дюссельдорфской художественной школы. Считается основателем немецкой жанровой живописи и предшественником Карла Шпицвега и Вильгельма Буша.

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