Adolph Northen
Adolph Northen , also Adolf Northen , Adolf Northern or Adolph Northern (born November 6, 1828 in Münden in the Kingdom of Hanover , † May 28, 1876 in Düsseldorf ), was a German history and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
From 1847 to 1851 Northen studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , after having attended the Polytechnic School in Hanover for some time in order to become an architect at the request of his father, a rent master in Hannoversch Münden. Karl Ferdinand Sohn , Rudolf Wiegmann and Theodor Hildebrandt were his teachers at the Düsseldorf Academy . With his own studio he settled permanently in Düsseldorf, where he was a founding member of the artists' association Malkasten , and made a name for himself as a battle painter , where he distinguished himself by reproducing the war in its brutality. King Ernst August I of Hanover was one of his customers . He turned down a scholarship offered by the Hanoverian court to study in Paris with Horace Vernet . As a war painter he took part in the German War and Franco-German War .
Works (selection)
The Prussians storm Plancenoit , 1863
Fair in Düsseldorf , watercolor, 1874
Gypsy caravan
Napoleon's withdrawal from Russia
literature
- Northen, Adolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 520 .
- Bund .: Northen, Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 22 f.
- John Denison Champlin: Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings , 2005
- Eva Maria Krafft: Catalog of the masters of the 19th century in the Hamburger Kunsthalle , 1969
- R. Hartmann: History of the royal seat of Hanover . Verlag von Ernst Kniep, Hanover 1880, p. 705 ( digitized version , Google Books )
Web links
- Adolph Northen on art.net
- Blücher's Rhine crossing (Düsseldorf University Library)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Northen, Adolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Northen, Adolf; Northern, Adolf; Northern, Adolph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Münden near Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 1876 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |