August Theodor Kaselowsky
August Theodor Kaselowsky , also August Theodor Kaselowski (born April 26, 1810 in Potsdam , † January 4, 1891 in Berlin ) was a German painter .
Life
August Theodor Kaselowsky was born in Potsdam on April 26, 1810. From 1828 he studied at the Berlin Academy and was the favorite student of the court painter and academy professor Wilhelm Hensel , with whose family he was good friends. A common time in Rome during Hensel's trip to Italy with his wife Fanny Hensel in 1839/40 is known. In 1835 he traveled with the engraver and draftsman Eduard Mandel and Edmund Rabe via Dresden to Prague , Nuremberg , Würzburg and through the Rhön .
In 1836 Kaselowsky received from the Akademie der Künste on the occasion of the birthday of Friedrich Wilhelm III. the price for history painting . He used the associated scholarship of 500 thalers a year for a study trip via Düsseldorf and Belgium to Paris , where he worked for three years in Léon Cogniet's studio. From 1839 to 1850 he lived in Rome, where he made Italian scenes, copies after Raphael and large historical pictures of his own composition ( acquittal of Susanna by Daniel ).
In the 1850s he painted six murals in the Niobidensaal in the Neues Museum and toured England , Spain and Greece . From 1861 he taught at the Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule as well as at the art academy and the art school of the Association of Berlin Artists and Art Lovers founded in 1868 .
He was married to Elisabeth Kaselowsky.
August Theodor Kaselowsky died in Berlin in 1891 at the age of 80 and was buried in the old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.
Works
| 1835 | Portrait of Albertine Mendelssohn Bartholdy, b. Heine (1814-1879) as a bride , Jewish Museum Berlin |
| around 1850 | Participation in the painting of the chapel of the Berlin City Palace (destroyed) |
| around 1850 | Wall paintings in the Niobidensaal of the Neues Museum, Berlin
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| 1861 | Crucifixion , altarpiece in the village church Kirch Grubenhagen |
| 1866 | Motherly love |
| circa 1865 | Altarpiece in the Church of St. Nikolai (after Friedrich Overbeck ), Greifenhagen on the Oder |
literature
- Jennifer Falckenberg: "Kaselowsky, August Theodor" , in: Bénédicte Savoy, Nerlich, France (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843 , de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 136-139.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsches Kunstblatt , 1851 (2), p. 111: The history painter Aug. Kaselowsky has just started a study trip to France and Spain.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 304.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaselowsky, August Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaselowski, August Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 4, 1891 |
| Place of death | Berlin |