Alexander Koerner

Friedrich Alexander Körner (born January 25, 1813 in Braunschweig ; † May 21, 1848 there ) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Körner was an illegitimate child from the relationship between the Braunschweig innkeeper and businessman Johann Valentin Körner and Friederike Auguste Gottschalk. He studied painting from 1833 to 1842 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Wilhelm Schadow his teachers. He also attended Karl Schaeffer's construction class . In Dusseldorf he exhibited his paintings from 1834, in 1836 the painting The Mother with the Child , which the Kunstverein Braunschweig acquired. The art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia also bought various pictures from him. From around 1845 Körner lived in Paris , where he was one of Friedrich Engels' friends. Körner's position of trust becomes visible in a letter from Engels to Karl Marx in December 1846, which says: "But in future I will address all letters to Monsieur AF Körner, artist-peintre, 29, rue neuve Bréda, Paris."

During his time in Paris he created pictures with titles such as Der Stiefelputzer , Der Schusterjunge and Le Marché des Innocents . Shortly before the February Revolution , on February 14, 1848, he was expelled from France. He died of tuberculosis shortly afterwards in his hometown .

literature

Rudolf Wiegmann : The Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Their history, furnishings and effectiveness and the Düsseldorf artists . Verlag der Buddeus'schen Buch- und Kunsthandlung (Ed. Schulte), Düsseldorf 1856, p. 318 f. ( Digitized version ).
Koerner, Friedrich Alexander . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1895, Volume I, p. 746.
Koerner, Friedrich Alexander . 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.

Web links

Alexander Körner , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )

Individual evidence

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016 ( PDF ))
^ Justus Lange: Carl Schiller (1807–1874). Researcher, collector, museum founder . Braunschweig 2007, p. 58
^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 130, No. 91 ( digitized version )
^ Engels to Marx in Brussels [Paris, December 1846] . In: Marx-Engels-Werke , Volume 27, p. 69 ( PDF )
^ Helmut Elsner: Fragments on international democratic activities around 1848 (M. Bakunin, F. Engels, F. Mellinet and others) . Karl-Marx-Haus, Trier 2000, pp. 66, 100 (footnote 9)

personal data
SURNAME	Koerner, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Körner, Friedrich Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	January 25, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH	May 21, 1848
Place of death	Braunschweig

[1] Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016 ( PDF ))

[2] Justus Lange: Carl Schiller (1807–1874). Researcher, collector, museum founder . Braunschweig 2007, p. 58

[3] Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 130, No. 91 ( digitized version )

[4] Engels to Marx in Brussels [Paris, December 1846] . In: Marx-Engels-Werke , Volume 27, p. 69 ( PDF )

[5] Helmut Elsner: Fragments on international democratic activities around 1848 (M. Bakunin, F. Engels, F. Mellinet and others) . Karl-Marx-Haus, Trier 2000, pp. 66, 100 (footnote 9)