Adolph Wegelin

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Adolph Wegelin (born November 24, 1810 in Kleve ; † January 18, 1881 in Cologne ) was a German architecture and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Adolph Wegelin studied from 1828 to 1832 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he initially studied landscape painting in Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's class . Soon he turned to architectural painting. He dedicated himself to the medieval buildings and cityscapes in the Rhineland , and tried to reproduce them in their complexity and architecturally accurate in numerous paintings. His works were presented to the public for the first time in 1831 and 1832 in art exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Berlin , where they were very well received. In 1835 Adolph Wegelin traveled to Nuremberg and Munich , where his understanding of art and his knowledge of the representation of architecture was shaped by the Mannheim artist Friedrich Hoffstadt and the Munich “ Society for German Antiquity to the Three Shields ”.

In 1837 Wegelin moved to Cologne, where from 1842, on the documentary commission of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , He made oil paintings and watercolors of the medieval secular buildings and the Cologne churches , partly based on drawings by Thomas Cranz . Later Adolph Wegelin was appointed royal court painter . He also painted various motifs from the Netherlands and Belgium for the royal collection .

In 1846 he put together a portfolio of his watercolors from Augustusburg Castle in Brühl for Queen Victoria of England in memory of her state visit there.

Wegelin painted the Cologne Cathedral, which is currently under construction, in numerous watercolors. He presented architectural details for King Friedrich Wilhelm, also with the help of the building plans by architect Ernst Friedrich Zwirner , as well as views of the future interior, which was not yet completed at the time.

gallery

  • Exterior view of Groß St. Martin in Cologne

  • Interior view of Groß St. Martin in Cologne

  • Augustusburg Castle in Brühl

  • Heisterbach choir ruins

  • Nonnenwerth Monastery

  • Southern Italian mountain village

literature

  • Johann Peter Weyer, Ulrich Bock: Cologne antiquities. and Kölner Alterthümer - commentary volume . Published by Werner Schäfke, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne 1993–1994.
  • Bernd Löhmann: A garden for king and people. Peter Joseph Lenné and the Brühler Schloßgarten. Publishing house of the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection, Cologne 2000.
  • Mario Kamp, Michael Euler-Schmidt, Barbara Schock-Werner (Eds.): The colossal journeyman. Views of Cologne Cathedral before 1842 from the holdings of the Cologne City Museum. Greven Verlag, Cologne 2011.
  • Hyacinth Holland :  Wegelin, Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 422-423.
  • GK Nagler: Wegelin, Adolph. In: New general artist lexicon . Volume 21, EA Fleischmann, Munich 1851, pp. 209-210.
  • Wegelin, Adolf . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume II, p. 983

Web links

Commons : Adolph Wegelin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann: The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145.
personal data
SURNAME Wegelin, Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wegelin, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleve
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1881
Place of death Cologne