Alexander Michelis

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Portrait of Alexander Michelis,
oil on canvas by Arnold Böcklin
Portrait of Alexander Michelis, by Friedrich Boser , Düsseldorf around 1850
Westphalian landscape , 1846

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

Commons : Alexander Michelis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter: From the paint box in Düsseldorf . In: The Gazebo . Issue 37, 1863, pp. 587 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  2. ^ Antonia Maria Ferdinanda . In: Jochen Schmidt-Liebich: Lexicon of women artists 1700–1900. Germany, Austria, Switzerland . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2005, p. 13
personal data
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