August Piepenhagen

August Piepenhagen, winter landscape with a frozen pond, ca.1850

August Friedrich Piepenhagen (born August 2, 1791 in Soldin , Prussia , † September 27, 1868 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ) was a Prague landscape painter .

Life

August Piepenhagen came from a modest background and initially started an apprenticeship in button and lace-making. The journeyman's hike took him to Switzerland , where the impressive landscape inspired him to make self-taught attempts at painting. In 1831 he came to Prague on his hike, where he was to stay in the future. First exhibitions and his marriage in Prague followed. Piepenhagen had to do with feeding his family throughout his life, although he was able to sell a great many of his landscape paintings. His two daughters Charlotte (1821–1902) and Louise (1825–1893) were also trained as painters by him. Piepenhagen died on the Jenerálka estate near Prague. He was buried in the Protestant cemetery in the Prague suburb Karolinenthal (Karlín). His grave was designed by the sculptor Thomas Seidan .

Works

August Piepenhagen was a pure landscape painter who mainly acquired his skills autodidactically and was only able to create his pictures alongside his actual job. His landscapes, which were designed to be romantic and atmospheric, were very popular with the Prague public. His pictures were literally collected, but were also not very expensive to buy. Adalbert Stifter , himself also a landscape painter, valued Piepenhagen extremely and said that he was "the most poetic landscape painter I know now."

• Old Village Bridge (Vienna, Austrian Gallery), oil on canvas
• Forest thicket I (Prague, Strahov Monastery), oil on panel, 18.7 × 12.2 cm
• Forest thicket II (Prague, Strahov Monastery), oil on panel, 18.4 × 12 cm
• Landscape (Prague, Narodni Gallery, inv. No. 17958), oil on panel, 31 × 24 cm
• Landscape (Prague, Narodni Gallery, Inv. No. 17959), oil on panel, 24 × 32 cm
• Coast (Kooperativa Collection, Wiener Städtische Versicherung), around 1830, oil on canvas, 17 × 24.5 cm
• Mountain landscape with lake and church (Leitmeritz, North Moravian Gallery), around 1833

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Piepenhagen, August . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 22nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, pp. 269–271 ( digitized version ).
• Rudolf Müller:  Piepenhagen, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 115-117.
• V. Kratinová:  Piepenhagen August. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 66.

Web links

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