Freundschaftsgalerie von 57 Einzelbildnissen der Düsseldorfer Malerschüler und ihren Freunden

Gallery of Friendship with 57 Portraits of Members of the Düsseldorf School of Painting and their Friends, 1835–1845

ArtistFriedrich Boser, Ilowa 1809–1881 Düsseldorf

ArtistCarl Clasen, Düsseldorf 1812–1886 Düsseldorf

ArtistAdolf Richter, Torun 1812–1852 Düsseldorf

ArtistCaspar Johann Nepomuk Scheuren u.a., Aachen 1810–1887 Düsseldorf

Oil on canvas

Dimensions without frame50 × 282 cm

Dimensions with frame84 × 308 × 6 cm

Status

on display, room 009

About the workFriedrich Boser painted his artist friends over a period of around ten years. Most of them lived in Düsseldorf, where Boser studied between 1836 and 1843. These images are presented alongside several self-portraits of colleagues in the same format, resembling an ancestral gallery. Little is known about the background to the gallery’s creation; Boser likely made it for himself. Miniature portraits were popular until the nineteenth century, as they allowed people to carry pictures of their loved ones. Gradually, however, the newly invented medium of photography replaced these painted likenesses.

AccessionAcquisition 1932

Provenance1881-1932 Nachlass des Künstlers; 1932 erworben aus dem Nachlass des Künstlers; bis Juni 2011 als Dauerleihgabe im Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf (Inv.-Nr. B 383); 2011 im Kunstpalast nachinvenarisiert.

Inventory numberM 2011-1

Contact

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