Anton Greven (painter)

Johann Anton Greven (* 1810 in Cologne ; † December 18, 1838 there ) was a German genre painter and lithographer from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Studio scene , painting by Johann Peter Hasenclever , 1836 - in the center of the picture: the small Anton Greven with a crayon and wine bottle

Greven, short of stature and suffering from kyphosis , studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he was a student of Theodor Hildebrandt from 1831 to 1836 , who certified that he had good talents. Within the Düsseldorf school, Greven belonged to the circle around Johann Peter Hasenclever . He portrayed him as the central figure in the genre picture of the studio scene . Greven moved to Munich with Hasenclever in 1838 . After half a year he returned to his parents' house in Cologne, where he passed away soon after. The Cologne lithographer Johann Caspar Baum created a portrait of Greven in 1839.

Works (selection)

Due to his short lifetime, only a few pictures of Greven are known, in addition to late romantic pictorial themes, also humorous depictions in the Rhenish wine and tavern genre.

Count Eberhard der Rauschbart (based on a poem by Uhland) , exhibited in the art exhibition of the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , Düsseldorf 1834
The knight and his love (a Spanish knight with his loved one) , exhibited in the art exhibition of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1836
The Limburg gift shop
The cut tablecloth
The suitor , lithograph
The drinking friars , unfinished

literature

Rudolf Wiegmann : The Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Their history, origin and effectiveness and the Düsseldorf artists . Verlag der Buddeus'schen Buch- und Kunsthandlung (Ed. Schulte), Düsseldorf 1856, p. 236 ( digitized version ).
Leonhard Ennen : Greven, Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 648.
Greven, Anton . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 410.
Greven, Anton . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 15 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): Greven, Anton, painter . In: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , 2nd edition, Volume 4 (Görres - Hittorp), KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-25034-7 , p. 134

Web links

Greven, Johann Anton , biography in the portal stiftung-volmer.de

Individual evidence

^ Anton Fahne : The Düsseldorf School of Painters in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836. A writing full of fleeting thoughts . Verlag JHC Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 64 ( Google Books )
^ The cut up tablecloth , image in the artnet.de portal , accessed on December 11, 2015
^ Johann Jakob Merlo : News of the life and works of Cologne artists . Verlag JM Heberle (H. Lempertz), Cologne 1850, p. 150 f. ( Google Books )

personal data
SURNAME	Greven, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Greven, Johann Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	1810
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	December 18, 1838
Place of death	Cologne

[1] Anton Fahne : The Düsseldorf School of Painters in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836. A writing full of fleeting thoughts . Verlag JHC Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 64 ( Google Books )

[2] The cut up tablecloth , image in the artnet.de portal , accessed on December 11, 2015

[3] Johann Jakob Merlo : News of the life and works of Cologne artists . Verlag JM Heberle (H. Lempertz), Cologne 1850, p. 150 f. ( Google Books )