Arnold Ferdinand Ewald

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Arnold Ferdinand Ewald (* 1815 in Berlin ; † July 24, 1884 there ) was a German painter.

Ewald studied (1839) at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and was a student at the Berlin Academy ; He was also a member of the literary society Tunnel over the Spree under the pseudonym Canaletto .

Cologne, Great St. Martin (1852)

Quote from Nagler's monogrammist directory :

“(Ewald) was one of the most excellent young artists in the Prussian state. He made his studies in the academy in Berlin and appeared around 1848 (for the first time) with works.

They consist of genre images and representations from the history of the Middle Ages. ...

Excellent paintings of the latter kind are Galileo in front of the congregation set up by Pope Urban VIII in the fire of the defense of his teaching or Queen Elisabeth (I) hands over the death sentence of Maria Stuart to Dawison .

The master's monogram can be found on drawings and smaller genre pictures. So he signs an etched sheet in the 2nd issue of the album of the younger artists' association in Berlin from 1853 18 Æ 53 ) "

The work (shown) Groß St. Martin zu Köln , view from the north; Oil on canvas, 25 × 21 cm, bears the signature 18 Æ 52 .

Further exhibition participation u. a .:

  • 1856 Bremen: Tenth major exhibition of the art association
  • 1861 Cologne: Second general German art exhibition with Gethsemane
  • 1861 Berlin: Academic art exhibition with a rural toilet

Ewald's son was the historian, philologist and lecturer Paul Ewald  (1851–1887), who married the painter Clara Philippson the year he died. They were parents of the physicist Paul Peter Ewald .

literature

  • Friedrich von Boetticher : Painters Works of the Nineteenth Century - Contribution to Art History . 1st volume, Leipzig 1891
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler : The monogrammists and those known and unknown artists of all schools . 1st volume, Munich 1858
  • Joachim Busse: International handbook of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century . Wiesbaden 1977 (bus directory)
  • Emmanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs , Volume 4, Paris 1976
  • Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of the Fine Arts . Volume 11, Leipzig 1915

Web links

Commons : Arnold Ferdinand Ewald  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death Register StA Berlin III, No. 940/1884
  2. ^ Matriculation number 02583 in the directory of the AdBK
  3. ^ Academy of Mahler, Sculpture and Architecture Art
  4. ↑ Georg Kaspar Nagler : The Monogrammists . Volume I, Munich 1858
  5. ^ Berlin Academic Art Exhibition, 1852
  6. ^ Munich General German Art Exhibition, 1854
  7. ^ Directory of the exhibition catalogs of the Kunsthalle Bremen / 1829-2004. Kunstverein in Bremen, archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; accessed on March 17, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Ewald, Arnold Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Canaletto (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and student of the Berlin Academy
DATE OF BIRTH 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1884
Place of death Berlin