Adalbert Begas
Adalbert Begas (born March 8, 1836 in Berlin ; † January 21, 1888 in Nervi near Genoa) was a German painter.
Life
Adalbert Begas was the third son of Carl Joseph Begas the Elder. Ä. who decided to become an artist. Because of his drawing skills, his father persuaded him to train as a copper engraver . He learned this technique for five years at the Berlin Academy of the Arts under Professor Gustav Lüderitz . In particular, his plate, executed in mezzotint style in 1858, based on the self-portrait of his father from 1848 (VMS No. 186, Fig. 58) shows his artistic ability in this technique. The following year Adalbert Begas went to Paris to perfect his education . Influenced by the study of the painting of old masters that he began there, he decided to become a painter on his return to Berlin. In 1862 he followed his brother Reinhold to the art school in Weimar , where he entered Arnold Böcklin's studio . In the following year he went to Italy for artistic studies, where in 1864, influenced by Italian images of the Madonna , he painted his painting Mother and Child (now in the National Gallery in Berlin ). On returning to Berlin, Adalbert Begas worked as a portrait painter . His greatest interest, however, was poetic, dreamy genre representations and allegorically idealized female figures. One of his most important works is a life-size portrait of a beautiful young girl in costume from 1872 as a personification of the “folk song”.
In 1877, Adalbert Begas married the landscape, architecture and still life painter Luise von Parmentier in Berlin . The couple traveled together frequently to Italy, especially to Capri and Venice . The stays in Venice in particular inspired Adalbert Begas to create realistic genre-like scenes in Venetian colors. Adalbert Begas died in 1888 of a lung disease on one of these trips to Italy near Genoa .
The Begaswinkel in Berlin-Tiergarten , where he had his studio, is named after him.
See also
- Begas (other members of the Begas family of artists)
Works (selection)
- Mother and Child , 1864, oil on canvas, 75 × 62 cm, National Museums in Berlin, National Gallery, inv. AI 26
- Portrait of Margarethe Bega , 1865, oil on canvas, 68.5 × 53 cm, Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation, inv. GEM 76/1
- Portrait of an unknown lady with a camellia , 1871, BEGAS HAUS, Museum for Art and Regional History Heinsberg, permanent loan from a private collection
- Madonna with downcast gaze , 1881, oil on wood, BEGAS HAUS, Museum for Art and Regional History Heinsberg, inv. FROM 1
- The Artist's Wife (Venus at the Toilet) , 1884, oil on canvas, Schweinfurt, Georg Schäfer Museum
- Lady with a Rose and Veil , 1884, oil on canvas, 52.5 × 37.2 cm, National Museums in Berlin, National Gallery, inv. A III 670
- Coastal landscape near Nervi with fortifications. Evening mood , oil on canvas.
- A Greek Beauty. 1865. Oil on canvas.
- Saint Cecilia at the organ.
literature
- Adalbert Begas , in: Hermann Alex. Müller: Biographical Artist Lexicon . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 38.
- Rita Müllejans-Dickmann , Wolfgang Cortjaens (ed.): Begas-Haus Heinsberg. Vol. 2: The Begas Collection , Cologne 2013, p. 117, cat. 64 (p. 118–119), cat. 106 (p. 190–191), cat. 107 (p. 192–193)
Web links
- Biography on the website of the Heinsberg District Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/berliner-hoefe-6-der-begaswinkel-in-berlin-tiergarten-die-italienische-schneise/12221784.html
- ↑ Coastal landscape near Nervi with fortifications. Evening mood by Adalbert Begas . van-ham.com. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
- ^ Adalbert Franz Eugen Begas - A GREEK BEAUTY . artnet.de. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
- ↑ Adalbert Begas . askart.com. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Begas, Adalbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1888 |
| Place of death | Nervi (Genoa) |