Albert Korneck

Friedrich Rudolf Albert Korneck , also Kornek (born January 11, 1813 in Breslau , Province of Silesia , † August 15, 1905 in Berlin ), was a German genre , history and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Portrait of the General Post Director Heinrich Schmückert , 1852

Portrait of the opera singer Rosa Sucher , 1882

Korneck was supposed to be a clergyman, but he began drawing portraits around 1831, which enabled him to study with August von Kloeber at the Berlin Art Academy from 1833 and to learn oil painting. In 1836 he followed his childhood friend, the painter Raphael Schall , to the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There was Karl Ferdinand Sohn his teacher. Among other things, pictures of Faust's Gretchen, Jakob and Rahel or the Heil. Family. In 1840 he settled in Berlin, where he worked as a teacher and made a name for himself as a portraitist at the Prussian court, among other places. He received the title of professor . In 1845 he became a member of the Berlin Artists' Association . In addition to portraits, he made pictures of religious content and genre pictures.

literature

Kornek, Friedrich Rudolf Albert. In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, pp. 307–308 ( retrobibliothek.de ).
Kornek, Friedrich Rudolf Albert. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, pp. 744-745 ( archive.org ).
Korneck, Albert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 314 .

Web links

Commons : Albert Korneck - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Albert Korneck , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Friedrich Rudolf Albert Korneck artnet .de

Individual evidence

↑ No. 7793–7797 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( State Archive North Rhine-Westphalia )
↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 434.
↑ Uta Motschmann (Ed.): Handbook of Berlin Associations and Societies 1786–1815 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-05-009453-3 , p. 473 (reading sample, [1] ).

personal data
SURNAME	Korneck, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Korneck, Friedrich Rudolf Albert (full name); Kornek, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German genre painter, history painter and portrait painter of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	January 11, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	August 15, 1905
Place of death	Berlin

[1] No. 7793–7797 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( State Archive North Rhine-Westphalia )

[2] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 434.

[3] Uta Motschmann (Ed.): Handbook of Berlin Associations and Societies 1786–1815 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-05-009453-3 , p. 473 (reading sample, [1] ).