Alex Schöngrün

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Two women call for the ferryman

Alexis Carl Gottfried Schöngrün (born July 4, 1854 in Wolgast ; † October 12, 1942 there ) was a German landscape and marine painter .

Life

Alex Schöngrün, son of a captain , has been sailing at sea since he was 14 years old. It is uncertain whether he studied painting in Sweden or the USA or whether he acquired the technical skills autodidactically. From 1892 he worked as a landscape painter in Wolgast and the surrounding area. With his pictures of the history of his hometown, of Pomeranian landscapes and pictures of captains , he is considered a painting chronicler of Wolgast.

Works (selection)

The embarkation of the corpse of Gustav II Adolf at Wolgast in 1633 , Alexis Schöngrün's copy after a painting by Carl Gustaf Hellqvist .

Five paintings by Schöngrün are in the St. Petri Church in Wolgast , and more in the Shipping Museum in Rostock .

  • Petrikirche fire in 1920
  • brig
  • Transfer of the body of Gustav Adolf to Sweden
  • Ruin of the Wolgast Castle
  • Landskron Castle

literature

  • Nice green, Alex . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , pp. 390-391.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexis Carl Gottfried Schöngrün: Seascape with a sinking ship and lifeboat , painting with biographical information on www.liveauctioneers.com.
  2. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (ed.): The architectural and art monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Western Pomerania coastal region. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1995, p. 361
personal data
SURNAME Nice green, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schöngrün, Alexis Carl Gottfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolgast
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1942
Place of death Wolgast