August von Rentzell

Wilhelm August von Rentzell (* August 1809 in Marienwerder , Niederbarnim district ; † December 22, 1891 in Berlin ) was a German genre and animal painter .

Life

Street scene on the Hercules Bridge in Berlin , 1841

After a short career as an officer, von Rentzell studied with Carl Joseph Begas at the Berlin Art Academy . In 1832 he entered the studio of Karl Wilhelm Wach . At the end of the 1830s he worked for Franz Krüger . Then he moved to Düsseldorf for some time . Finally he returned to Berlin.

As a representative of the humorous genre, he created street and landscape scenes as well as interiors. He often painted animals, especially horses, cattle and dogs. Since von Rentzell liked to depict human misfortunes and entanglements, the art historian Adolf Rosenberg characterized him as a "painter of chaos, motley and confusion".

Works (selection)

Getting together is cozy

Tsar Nicholas and Prince Wilhelm of Prussia in front of the Neue Wache , 1835, National Gallery Berlin
The rainy Grunewald section , 1839
Street scene on the Hercules Bridge in Berlin , 1841
The mail goes off , 1841
Peasant family in a rustic interior , 1848
together with Carl Triebel : Get over! (Scene on the banks of the Achensee in Tyrol)
Getting together is cozy

literature

Rentzell, August von. In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 435 ( retrobibliothek.de ).
Rentzell, August von. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, pp. 385-386 ( archive.org ).
Rentzell, August von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 176 .

Web links

Commons : August von Rentzell - Collection of images, videos and audio files

August von Rentzell , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
August von Rentzell , auction results in the portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

↑ Death register StA Berlin IX, 2004/1891.
^ Atanazy Raczyński : The newer German art. Third volume, Berlin 1841, p. 124 ( books.google.de ).
^ Irmgard Wirth : Berlin painting in the 19th century. From the time of Frederick the Great to the First World War. WJ Siedler, Berlin 1990, ISBN 978-3-88680-260-9 , p. 100.
↑ August von Rentzell: The rainy Grunewald game ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Provenance research on the badv.bund.de portal ( Federal Office for Central Services and Unresolved Property Issues ), accessed on March 6, 2017. @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Rentzell, August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rentzell, Wilhelm August von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German genre and animal painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marienwerder (Barnim)
DATE OF DEATH	December 22, 1891
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Death register StA Berlin IX, 2004/1891.

[2] Atanazy Raczyński : The newer German art. Third volume, Berlin 1841, p. 124 ( books.google.de ).

[3] Irmgard Wirth : Berlin painting in the 19th century. From the time of Frederick the Great to the First World War. WJ Siedler, Berlin 1990, ISBN 978-3-88680-260-9 , p. 100.

[4] August von Rentzell: The rainy Grunewald game ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Provenance research on the badv.bund.de portal ( Federal Office for Central Services and Unresolved Property Issues ), accessed on March 6, 2017. @1@ 2