Aloys Cornelius

Johann Christian Aloys Cornelius , also Alois Cornelius (born May 11, 1748 in Düsseldorf ; † June 21, 1800 ibid), was a German history painter and draftsman as well as teacher at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and inspector of the academy's collection.

Life

House Kurz Strasse 15 in Düsseldorf's old town , home of Aloys Cornelius, birthplace of his sons Lambert and Peter (von) Cornelius

Cornelius, son of the Düsseldorf wine and seed merchant and winemaker Peter Christian Cornelius (1721–1781) and his wife Anna Gertrud, née Bonrath (1725–1778), and brother of the engraver, actor and writer Ignaz Cornelius (1764– ~ 1806), should originally be a clergyman. However, he studied painting with Lambert Krahe , who had set up a private drawing school in Düsseldorf in 1762, which in 1773 advanced to the “ Electoral Palatinate Academy of Painters, Sculpture and Architecture” and the “Electoral Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf”. At this academy, located in the Hondheim Palace , the predecessor of today's Düsseldorf Art Academy, he became inspector of the academic collection and teacher of the elementary class. On May 4, 1775, he married Anna Helene Cosse (1760-1809). The couple's two sons, Lambert and Peter , also became painters. Under the guidance of their father, the sons were trained in particular on drawings from the academic collection. Lambert succeeded his father in the office of academy inspector.

As a painter, Cornelius was committed to the classical direction of Anton Raphael Mengs . One of his more well-known works is the stigmatization of St. Francis in the Franciscan Church of St. Nicholas in Aachen . During the First Coalition War , from October 1, 1793, Cornelius took over the task of packing up the art treasures of Bensberg Castle and bringing them to safety.

literature

Cornelius, (Johann Christian) Aloys . In: German Biographical Encyclopedia . KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-25032-0 , 2nd edition, Volume 2, p. 410 ( Google Books ).
Cornelius, Aloys . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 21, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22761-2 , p. 249.

Web links

Aloys Cornelius , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Ancestral list of Peter Joseph Cornelius , website in the portal wassenberg.be

Individual evidence

↑ His electoral examination of the Palatinate etc. Court and state calendar for the leap year 1788 . Franzische Hof- und Landschaftsbuchdruckerei, Munich, p. 393 ( Google Books )
^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 30 f. ( Digitized version )
^ M. Thamm: Contributions to the history of Schloss Bensberg . In: Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine. Yearbook of the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein , Volume 16 (1902), p. 230 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Cornelius, Aloys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cornelius, Johann Christian Aloys (full name); Cornelius, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German history painter and draftsman as well as teacher at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and inspector of the collection
DATE OF BIRTH	May 11, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	June 21, 1800
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] His electoral examination of the Palatinate etc. Court and state calendar for the leap year 1788 . Franzische Hof- und Landschaftsbuchdruckerei, Munich, p. 393 ( Google Books )

[2] Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 30 f. ( Digitized version )

[3] M. Thamm: Contributions to the history of Schloss Bensberg . In: Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine. Yearbook of the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein , Volume 16 (1902), p. 230 ( digitized version )