Alexander Michelis
Alexander Michelis (born December 25, 1823 in Münster , † January 23, 1868 in Weimar ) was a German painter .
Life
Michelis was the son of the draftsman and engraver Franz Michels (1762–1835). He studied from 1843 to 1851 at the Düsseldorf Academy , where he was a student of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer . As a member of the artists' association Malkasten , he replaced Hermann Becker as secretary. After ten years of self-employment in Düsseldorf, during which he also gave private lessons to Princess Maria Luise of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Infanta Antonia Maria of Portugal , he taught landscape painting from 1863 until his death in 1868 at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School Weimar . There he was the successor to Arnold Böcklin and Franz von Lenbach .
His older brother Friedrich Bernhard Ferdinand Michelis (born July 27, 1815 in Münster, † May 28, 1886) was a theologian and philosopher.
literature
- Bund .: Michelis, Alexander . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 693.
- Exhibition catalog: Out into nature! Barbizon, the Weimar School of Painting and the dawn of impressionism. Verlag KERBER ART, 2010, p. 339
- Exhibition catalog: The Weimar School of Painting . To commemorate the founding of the Weimar Art School in 1860. Weimar 1960, Ed. Direction of the Weimar Art Collections, p. 79
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter: From the paint box in Düsseldorf . In: The Gazebo . Issue 37, 1863, pp. 587 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
- ^ Antonia Maria Ferdinanda . In: Jochen Schmidt-Liebich: Lexicon of women artists 1700–1900. Germany, Austria, Switzerland . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2005, p. 13
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SURNAME | Michelis, Alexander |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1823 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |
DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1868 |
Place of death | Weimar |