August von der Embde

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August von der Embde, self-portrait (1819)
Child and Girl under a Blooming Apple Tree (around 1840)
Louise von Bose as a child, Neue Galerie (Kassel)

August von der Embde , also called August Emden , until 1830 Johann Julius August Embde (born December 2, 1780 in Kassel , †  August 10, 1862 there ), was a German painter.

Life

Embde, son of the master joiner Johann Bernhard Embden from Bömighausen in the Waldeck Upland , also learned the carpentry trade, but then studied at the Kassel Academy from 1799 to 1804. In the following years, interrupted by longer stays at home, he traveled to various German residences and art centers (Bayreuth; Dresden, 1803, 1808; Düsseldorf, 1805; Gotha; Erfurt; Munich, 1812; Weimar; Vienna, 1814), where he studied works by old masters copied. Embde was the first to copy Raphael's angels from the painting of the Sistine Madonna in 1803 , which thus became a motif of their own. Finally he also studied at the academies of fine arts inMunich (1812) and Vienna (1814). In Vienna he seems to have received inspiration for his portrait style from the influence of the Füger School, especially the history and portrait painter Joseph Abel .

After the end of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia , he finally settled in Kassel, where he hoped in vain for a job as a court painter . From 1818 to 1819, together with Ludwig Hummel , Andreas Range , Sebastian Weygandt (1760–1836) and Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl , he worked on 22 life-size portraits of Hessian landgraves for the electoral ancestral gallery , which were installed in 1837 in the dome hall in the central building of Wilhelmshöhe Palace (in Destroyed World War II).

Due to his marriage in 1808 to Sophie Charlotte Henschel, daughter of the piece caster and company founder Georg Henschel and sister of the sculptor Johann Werner Henschel and the factory owner Carl Anton Henschel , he gained access to the art and literature cultivating circle of the upper middle class around the Brothers Grimm which earned him numerous portrait commissions, also from the Hessian court and land nobility. From the 1830s he largely turned to genre painting and created numerous portraits and porcelain-like Hessian rural children's scenes. Among these, his Hessian peasant girl with letter and bouquet , his children playing on the fire site of his parents' house (lithographed by Santer), his girls at the fountain (engraved by Otto) and his cinderella in the kitchen (lithographed by Daniel and Fay) were found Art exhibitions applaud. The last works of this kind were often created in collaboration with his daughters Caroline and Emilie, and this often makes it difficult to clearly differentiate between the works, especially between August and Caroline.

family

His marriage to Sophie Charlotte Henschel (1787–1856) , which he entered into in 1808, had four daughters, including Caroline and Emilie , who both also devoted themselves to portrait and genre painting.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In his early days he occasionally used the first name Julius ( August von der Embde, at Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel ).
  2. ↑ Armin Sattler: The Posterboys of the Renaissance , May 26, 2012, orf.at
  3. ^ August von der Embde, at Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

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SURNAME Embde, August von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Embde, Johann Julius August; Von Der Embden, August; Von Der Emde, August; Emden, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1862
Place of death kassel