Alfred Breitenstein

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Alfred Eduard Breitenstein (born April 18, 1828 in Düsseldorf ; † November 1, 1853 there ) was a German landscape and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School . The Dutch painter Carl August Breitenstein was his nephew.

Life

Breitenstein, one of six children of the judge Heinrich Wilhelm Maria Breitenstein (1786–1832) and his wife Arnoldina Walburga Gabriele, née Fuchs (1797–1866), studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1843 to 1850/1851 . There were Theodor Hildebrandt and Karl Ferdinand Sohn his teachers. The Düsseldorf study time was interrupted for a short time by a stay at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt am Main . In Düsseldorf, where he lived until his untimely death and was mainly considered an idyllic artist , he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association .

literature

  • Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter : Düsseldorf artists from the last twenty-five years. Art history letters . Rudolph Weigel, Leipzig 1854, p. 260 f.
  • Rudolf Wiegmann : The Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Their history, furnishings and effectiveness and the Düsseldorf artists . Buddeus, Düsseldorf 1856, p. 328 ( Google Books ).
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler : The monogrammists and those known and unknown artists of all schools who have used a figurative symbol, the initials of the name, the abbreviation etc. to designate their works . First volume, Munich 1858, p. 86, No. 201 ( Google Books ).
  • Breitenstein, Alfred . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 133.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, status: November 2016) , PDF in the smkp.de portal ( Museum Kunstpalast ), accessed on September 14, 2017
  2. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on September 14, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Breitenstein, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breitenstein, Alfred Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1853
Place of death Dusseldorf