Ernst Deodat Paul-Ferdinand Ewald (17 March 1836 in
Berlin
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– 30 December 1904 in Berlin) was a German painter.
Life
He came from a banking family and attended the
University of Bonn
The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...
, where he studied medicine and the natural sciences. He later became a pupil of
Carl Steffeck. From 1856 to 1863, he lived in Paris, where he was a student of
Thomas Couture
Thomas Couture (21 December 1815 – 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher. He taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge,Wilkinson, Burke. ''The Life and Works of A ...
. He travelled to Italy in 1864 and devoted himself to studying Fifteenth Century art.
He settled in Berlin in 1865. Beginning in 1868, he was an instructor in the school at the
Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
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, which he had helped to create. He became the museum's Director in 1874. Following the death of
Martin Gropius
Martin Carl Philipp Gropius (11 August 1824, Berlin – 13 December 1880) was a German architect.Wirth, Irmgard (1966).Gropius, Martin Carl Philipp. In: ''Neue Deutsche Biographie''. Band 7. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. . p. 132-133 retriev ...
in 1880, he also took over management of the
Royal School of Art in Berlin
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.
Among his works from this period are paintings in the library of the
Berlin Town Hall
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, scenes from the
Nibelungenleid in the Querhalle (Cross Hall) of the
National Gallery
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and windows in the
Martin-Gropius-Bau
Martin-Gropius-Bau, commonly known as Gropius Bau, is an important exhibition building in Berlin, Germany. Originally a museum of applied arts, the building has been a listed historical monument since 1966. It is located at 7 Niederkirchnerstraà ...
. In 1871, he designed the interiors for the reconstruction of the
Cochem Imperial Castle and, from 1888 to 1890, did mosaic designs for the
Kaiser Friedrich Mausoleum in
Potsdam
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. Ewald had worked as an artistic advisor for Friedrich when he was Crown Prince and gave drawing lessons to his sons, Prince Wilhelm (who would become
Emperor Wilhelm II
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) and
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.
Ewald's work was based on classical models and a desire to preserve historical forms and techniques.
Writings
* ''Farbige Illustrationen alter und neuer Zeit. Farbige Dekorationen vom 15.-19. Jahrhundert''. Four volumes; Berlin: Wasmuth 1889 - 1896.
Smithsonian Institution Collections
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References
Further reading
* Ernst Ewald. In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker (AKL). Vol. 35, Saur, Munich 2002, , S. 461 f.
* Ernst Ewald. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker : Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Vol.11, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1915, S. 116.
External links
ArtNet: Jäger im Wald (Hunters in the Forest) by Ewald
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1836 births
1904 deaths
Painters from Berlin
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters