Anton Zeller

Anton Zeller (born February 23, 1760 in Scherzingen TG ; † after 1836 ) was a German painter and court painter in Neustrelitz .

Life

Zeller probably came to Neustrelitz in 1794 and was court painter to Duke Karl II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1797 . In 1797 he married in Neustrelitz. From 1801 to 1803 he studied in Dresden. Here he copied old masters such as Guido Reni (for example the painting by Beatrice Cenci ) or Anton Raphael Mengs ( Amor ). It then went to Switzerland and was listed in the Mecklenburg-Strelitz state calendar from 1808 to 1836 with the note absent . He probably died in Switzerland.

Works

1798: Portraits of the princesses Luise and Friederike
1794 Duke Karl of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
1795 Wilhelm August Rudloff
1796 his sons Georg and Karl
Portraits of Count Hans von Schlitz (Baron von Labes), his nephews, the poet Ludwig Achim von Arnim and Karl Otto von Arnim, probably at Gut Zernikow
1803: Holy Family , Freymüthige , the power of love and portraits of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Ernst von Mecklenburg-Strelitz (exhibited in Dresden)
before 1806: Altarpiece for the Hohenzieritz Castle Church (copy after Reni)
1813 Portrait of the Canon Johann Heinrich Rahn in the Zurich Central Library
1814 Portrait of Emperor Franz I of Austria for the mansion of the Lower Austrian country house in Vienna

literature

Georg Kasper Nagler: New general artist lexicon; ... band 22 : Witsen-Zyx . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1852, p. 256 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
Zeller, Anton . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 146 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Zeller, Anton . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 448-449 .
Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 11144 .

Web links

Commons : Anton Zeller - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature about Anton Zeller in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

^ Johann Heinrich Füssli: Zeller (Anton) from Scherzingen in Breisgau . In: General Artist Lexicon . tape 2 : S-Z . Orell, Füssli & Co., Zurich 1816, p. 6168 ( books.google.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Zeller, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and court painter in Neustrelitz
DATE OF BIRTH	February 23, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH	Scherzingen TG
DATE OF DEATH	after 1836

[1] Johann Heinrich Füssli: Zeller (Anton) from Scherzingen in Breisgau . In: General Artist Lexicon . tape 2 : S-Z . Orell, Füssli & Co., Zurich 1816, p. 6168 ( books.google.de ).