Alphons from Cramer
Alphons Johann Gustav von Cramer , also de Cramer (* 1834 in Izmir , Ottoman Empire , † January 4, 1884 in Pegli - Multedo near Genoa , Liguria , Kingdom of Italy ), was an Austrian genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Von Cramer, scion of an Austro-Greek merchant family from Smyrna , grew up in Vienna and initially also worked as a merchant. From 1860 he received his first artistic instruction in Florence and Padua . Then he went to study in Paris and in 1862 to Düsseldorf , where he became a pupil of the portrait painter Wilhelm Sohn and belonged to the artists' association Malkasten . Resident there until 1876, he made several trips to Greece and Asia Minor . In Constantinople he painted three times the portrait of Sultan Abdülaziz , who honored him with the Mecidiye Order . His most famous work is the altarpiece of John the Baptist in St. John's Cathedral in Izmir. The painting Die Belauschten , created in 1873, is owned by the Düsseldorf Museum Kunstpalast .
In the style of his teacher Wilhelm Sohn, Cramer often chose subjects for his works that were typical of Düsseldorf genre painting . He mainly painted figure pictures that can be assigned to the history or costume genre (e.g. Rendezvous in Venice ). In addition, influenced by his travels, he created some pictures with scenes from the life of other peoples (e.g. Greek family ). Cramer showed his works at various large art exhibitions, except in Düsseldorf, among others, in Dresden at the Academic Art Exhibition (1868) and in the Munich Glass Palace (1876).
Works (selection)
- Greek family , exhibited in 1868 at the Academic Art Exhibition in Dresden
- Rendezvous in Venice , exhibited in 1872 in the Salon Eduard Schulte in Düsseldorf
- The listeners , oil on canvas, 1873, Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf; Exhibited in 1874 at the Academic Art Exhibition in Berlin, 1875 at the Academic Art Exhibition in Dresden and in 1877 at the Annual Exhibition in Vienna
- Altarpiece of John the Baptist in St. John's Cathedral , Izmir
- Lady on the balcony , exhibited in the Glaspalast in Munich in 1876
- Dalmatian dancer , exhibited in the Glaspalast in Munich in 1876
- Dalmatian shepherd boy
- Abundantia , issued in Düsseldorf in 1877
- The Usurer , exhibited in 1880 at the 4th General German Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf
- Triumphal procession of autumn , 1883
- The opening of the will
literature
- Cramer, Alfons of . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 118.
- Cramer, Alphons of . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1891, Volume 1, p. 192.
- Hans Vollmer : Cramer, Alphons (Johann Gustav) von . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 52 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Carsten Roth: Cramer, Alphons von . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 22, Saur, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-598-22762-0 , p. 159.
Web links
- Alphons Johann Gustav von Cramer , website in the portal levantineheritage.com
- Alfons von Cramer , auction results on the portal artnet .com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on September 23, 2018.
- ↑ Die Belauschten , data sheet in the portal emuseum.duesseldorf.de , accessed on September 23, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cramer, Alphons of |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cramer, Alphons Johann Gustav von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Izmir , Ottoman Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 4, 1884 |
| Place of death | Pegli - Multedo near Genoa , Liguria , Kingdom of Italy |