Adolph Böcking (painter)
Adolph Böcking (born November 22, 1782 in Trarbach , County Sponheim , † January 11, 1861 in Monaca , Beaver County , Pennsylvania ) was a German-American landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Böcking was the third son of the big merchant bankers and Adolf Böcking (1754-1800) and his wife Ernestine Clara (1760-1821), a subsidiary of the cloth manufacturers Bernhard Georg von Scheibler from the Monschauer business family Scheibler . His brother was the later Bergrat and Mayor of Saarbrücken , Heinrich Böcking .
In 1783, Böcking's father was the first Protestant to receive permission from Trier Elector Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony to settle down as a Protestant in Koblenz , which is dominated by Catholicism, and to set up a business. The family had to flee to Hanau when the French revolutionary troops approached and did not return to the area on the left bank of the Rhine until after Robespierre's fall and the end of the reign of terror . From 1796 the family lived in Saarbrücken. The father died in May 1800 while staying in his hometown Trarbach. This led to the dissolution of the father's company.
On April 6, 1825, Böcking married Johanne (tta) Maria (Marie, Mary), née Brückner (1801–1869). The couple had six children, three sons and three daughters, among them Emma, later the wife of the landscape painter Emil Bott .
At the age of 50, Böcking began studying at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1832 to 1834 he attended Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's landscape class there . After graduating, he lived for a few years as a painter in Düsseldorf, where he belonged to the city's evangelical community and lived in the old town in 1838 . He also worked on the development of oil paints and varnishes that could be bought in the paint shop of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, which his wife ran. In 1849 he emigrated with his family to the United States, where they settled in Phillipsburg, Beaver County.
literature
- Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 144.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Faber: Conversations Lexicon for fine arts . Renger'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1846, Volume 3, p. 241 ( Google Books )
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF
- ^ Hermann van Ham: Adolf Böcking, the first Protestant in the Archbishopric of Trier . In: Monthly Issues for Rhenish Church History , No. 27, 1933, pp. 48–50.
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in portal archive.nrw.de ( State Archive North Rhine-Westphalia )
- ^ Johann Friedrich Benzenberg : Alphabetical directory of the voting members of the Evangelical Congregation in Düsseldorf . Düsseldorf 1838 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Amandus Ferdinand Neukrantz (ed.): Detailed report on the large general German trade exhibition in Berlin in 1844 . M. Simion, Berlin 1845, p. 338 ( Google Books )
- ^ Ludwig August Frankl von Hochwart (editor): Sunday papers . Fourth year, Pfautsch & Compagnie, Vienna 1845, p. 254 ( Google Books )
- ^ Ernst Förster , Franz Kugler : Kunstblatt . Verlag der JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Stuttgart / Tübingen, Issue No. 49 from June 19, 1845, p. 204 ( Google Books )
- ^ History of the Upper Ohio Valley . Brant & Fuller, 1890, Volume I, p. 225 ( digital version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Böcking, Adolph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1782 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trarbach , County of Sponheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1861 |
| Place of death | Monaca , Beaver County, Pennsylvania |