Arthur Blaschnik
Arthur Blaschnik (born December 8, 1821 in Strehlen in Silesia, † October 19, 1918 in Berlin ) was a German landscape painter who worked mainly in Rome .
Life
The Silesian studied painting at the Vienna Academy in 1843 and from 1844 to 1849 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , which at the time was shaped by the academic painting style of the Munich School , which was based on precise and naturalistic depiction in the years that followed preferred genre of landscape painting. His workplace was from 1849 to 1852 Graefenberg ; From this time some forest landscapes are known of him.
Inspired by the work of the Munich court painter Carl Rottmann , he traveled via South Tyrol to Italy in 1852 at the age of 30 and stayed in Venice and Florence before settling in Rome in October 1853. Here he made a name for himself as a painter by depicting the Roman ruins and the area around the city. Court orders soon reached him, including a. for drawings of Italian views for the travel album of the Empress Charlotte of Russia or of the wife of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
In 1856 he became a member of the German Art Association in Rome, which was founded in 1845, and was active as a board member, traveled to Naples and Capri in 1858 and sent drawings from there to the Illustrierte Zeitung in Leipzig, for which he worked as an illustrator until 1886 . Blaschnik worked in the same way as an illustrator for Die Gartenlaube and Über Land und Meer . During the Italo-Austrian War of 1859 he was a courier who brought dispatches from the Prussian embassy to Germany. In 1874 he married the writer Fanny Arndt (1827–1906), whom he had met on her trip to Italy.
After 28 years in Rome, Blaschnik moved back to Silesia in 1880 and then settled in Berlin , but returned to Rome again in 1907 and 1908. After Fanny Arndt's death, he largely withdrew from the public eye.
Arthur Blaschnik died in Berlin in 1918 at the age of 96. He was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Schöneberg , where his wife had previously found her final resting place. Both graves have not been preserved.
At the instigation of Richard Foerster, he bequeathed his artistic estate to the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Wroclaw , where he set up a foundation to promote young artists from his assets. A few years after his death, the museum sold a large part of the artistic estate in order to top up the foundation with the proceeds. A significant collection of his works is in the National Museum of Warsaw .
plant
Blaschnik's work consists mainly of oil paintings showing Italian cities and landscapes. Among other things, he captured the ruins of the imperial palaces on the Palatine Hill and created drawings and paintings of the Blue Grotto of Capri . Today his works are occasionally proclaimed by auction houses, but so far there has been no detailed study of his work.
literature
- Art auction house G. Adolf Pohl (ed.): Artistic estate Arthur Blaschnik †: Paintings from Hamburg and Düsseldorf private collections; also the well-known ethnological and ethnographic collection of major general a. D. Puder, former Schutztruppe officer in East and Southwest Africa and commander in Cameroon. Auction: October 31, November 1, November 2. Hamburg 1922.
- Friedrich Noack : Blaschnik, Arthur . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 102 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Noack : Blaschnik, Arthur . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 102 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 749.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blaschnik, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strehlen in Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1918 |
| Place of death | Berlin |