Franz Nadorp, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Franz Nadorp

Italian painter (1794-1876)

Date of Birth: 23-Jun-1794

Place of Birth: Anholt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 17-Sep-1876

Profession: painter, sculptor

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Franz Nadorp

  • Franz Johann Heinrich Nadorp, (June 23, 1794 – September 17, 1876) was a German painter who primarily worked and lived in Rome. Nadorp was born in Isselburg into a family of artists.
  • He was the only son of Johann Theodor Nadorp and Gertrud Anna Stroof.
  • After his education at the Anholt City school, he was joined at age 20 by a fellowship of his country gentlemen Prince Constantin of Salm-Salm in the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, where he trained as a historical painter with his teacher Joseph Bergler.
  • Nadorp was the favorite pupil of Bergler.
  • In 1822 he received the gold medal of the Academy.
  • When in 1826 his mentor died, Nadorp broke his tents from Prague and returned in 1827 for a few months in his hometown district of Anholt in Isselburg. In the fall of 1827 Nadorp traveled with his companions Prince Franz of Salm-Salm to Rome.
  • The city of Rome drew at the time many German artists, such as Peter Cornelius, Johann Friedrich Overbeck and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld.
  • Nadorp was quite fast in the group of German artists, called the "Nazarenes".
  • He was one of the founders of the Roman Künstlerbund (1829) and the German Artists' Union (1845).
  • The years 1840-1850 are among his most fertile.
  • Numerous drawings surviving. During this time, Nadorp met the King Ludwig I of Bavaria, and they both shared a friendship.
  • 1859 Nadorp was received by King Frederick William IV of Prussia, and led to his first government contract.
  • Nadorp left Rome only rarely in the nearly 50 years of local work.
  • In 1862 he returned for a short time back in his hometown.
  • For his baptismal church of St.
  • Pancras, he created an altarpiece The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple and drew the located shortly before the demolition of the old town church.
  • In 1876 Prince Alfred I of Salm-Salm granted him an annuity. Nadorp, which is considered a romantic German painter in style, died shortly thereafter in Rome and buried at Campo Santo Teutonico next to St.
  • Peter in the Vatican.
  • His entire estate was transferred to the Princes of Salm -Salm and can still be seen today in the Museum Wasserburg Anholt and in the parish church of St.
  • Pancras.

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