August Kopisch

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August Kopisch (around 1829)
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August Kopisch (born May 26, 1799 in Breslau ; † February 6, 1853 in Berlin ) was a German inventor , landscape and history painter, and writer or poet .

Life

August Kopisch was born as the son of the wealthy Wroclaw merchant Christian Gottlieb Kopisch. He attended the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau up to the Prima . Since he has been painting since childhood, he spent the years between 1815 and 1818 at the art academies in Dresden and Prague . In October 1817 he went to Vienna , was a pupil there at the Academy of Art and studied the subject by mid-1819 history painting . Even then he was vacillating between painting and poetry and also played guitar and piano. In Vienna he enjoyed special support from Professor Joseph Georg Meinert and the philologist Vuk Stefanović Karadžić .

In the winter of 1820/21 he broke his right hand in an ice skating accident. Since the hand remained stiff, he gave up painting with a heavy heart and against the will of his family and from then on devoted himself almost exclusively to literature. Altogether only 23 paintings by Kopisch have been documented, about half of which still exist today.

To heal his hand (and because he had fallen unhappily in love with a girl who was related to him), Kopisch set out on a long trip to Italy in the spring of 1824 . In Rome he quickly made contact with the German Romans . In 1826 Kopisch stayed in Naples . There he met August von Platen-Hallermünde , who also influenced him literarily. Because of his skill in swimming he discovered the Blue Grotto on Capri together with the Heidelberg painter Ernst Fries in 1826 .

The Pontine Marshes at Sunset (1848). Oil on canvas

In Naples, Kopisch began to paint again and soon became a well-known original that the locals only called Don Augusto Prussiano . Filippo Cammarano even made him a character in one of his folk comedies. For his landscape paintings he chose exaggerated colors with great radiance (Bengali blue, sunset red). T. newly developed. During an eruption in 1828, he climbed Vesuvius to be able to paint the play of colors in the lava. A later echo of his trip to Italy is his 1848 masterpiece “The Pontine Marshes at Sunset”.

In 1829 Kopisch returned to Breslau. Together with Carl Ferdinand Langhans , he built a pleorama of the Gulf of Naples there in 1831 . From 1833 he lived in Berlin, where he found a job in the royal court marshal , was appointed to the royal art advisory board in 1840 and was given the title of professor in 1844 by Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , Whom he had met in Italy in 1828.

August Kopisch's grave

From 1847 Kopisch stayed in Potsdam . In the revolutionary years of 1848/49 Kopisch was extremely loyal to the royal family. On July 12, 1852, Kopisch married Marie von Sellin in Berlin . On a trip to Berlin, August Kopisch suffered a stroke from which he died on February 6, 1853. He was buried in a grave of honor of the city of Berlin in field OM G2 on the Dreifaltigkeitskirchhof II in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

Dante also copied Divine Comedy and Italian folk songs into German. His poem about the Cologne brownies became famous .

He invented the so-called “Berlin Schnellofen”, a portable, spirit-powered stove for heating small rooms, primarily when traveling, and had it patented.

In 1948 the Kopischweg in Hamburg-Niendorf was named after him.

exhibition

Works (selection)

  • painting
    • The crater of Vesuvius with the eruption of 1828 (painting 1828)
    • Mount Etna from the ruins of the Taormina Theater, at sunset (painting 1834)
    • A ship at sea swarmed by dolphins (painting)
    • The Pontine Marshes (painting 1848)
  • literature
    • Agrumi, popular posies from all dialects of Italy and its islands . Crantz, Berlin 1838. ( online )
    • All kinds of ghosts. Poems and stories . Mörike Verlag, Munich 1913 (with the ballad Die Heinzelmännchen zu Cologne )
    • A carnival festival on Ischia . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 5. 2nd ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 1-62. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016. Digitized and full text in the German text archive
    • Dieter Richter (ed.): The discovery of the blue grotto on the island of Capri . Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-8031-1163-3 .
    • The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri. Metric translation together with the original text . Brachvogel & Ranft, Berlin 1887.
    • Discovery of the Blue Grotto on the island of Capri , edited and provided with an afterword by Hans Schuhmacher, Scientia-Verlag, Zurich, 1946, 74 pp.
    • Poems. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1836. ( online )
    • The Heinzelmännchen in Cologne , 1836
    • A carnival festival on Ischia. Novella. Hausen, Saarlouis 1892. ( digitized version )
    • The royal palaces and gardens of Potsdam. From the time it was founded until 1852 . Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1854 online .
    • My very first fairy tale book: The Heinzelmännchen in Cologne . Edition Paletti, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89893-892-1 .
    • The dreamer . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 14. 2nd ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 1-67. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016. Digitized and full text in the German text archive
    • The dreamer . Hübener, Berlin 1948.
    • Carl Bötticher (ed.): Collected works . Weidmann, Berlin 1856 (5 Vols.), Vol . 1 , Vol . 2 , Vol . 3 , Vol. 4 , Vol . 5
  • radio play
    • The Heinzelmännchen and other stories from Grandpa's old book (CD), Uccello-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-397337-80-7 .

literature

Web links

Commons : August Kopisch  - Collection of Images
Wikisource: August Kopisch  - Sources and full texts
Wikiquote: August Kopisch  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Udo Kittelmann : Who please? August Kopisch? Really? In the revolutionary year of 1848, August Kopisch painted his masterpiece “The Pontine Marshes at Sunset”. That was radical contemporaneity back then. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 26, 2016, p. 11.
  2. ↑ a b augustkopischinberlin.de ( Memento from April 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Rita Bake : A Memory of the City. Streets, squares, bridges named after women and men , Volume 3, as of December 2017, p. 787 ( PDF file )
  4. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 18, 2016, page 11: A journey into the light blue of the mother flame
  5. ↑ smb.museum ( Memento from March 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kopisch, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1853
Place of death Berlin