Bernhard Mohrhagen
Carl Wilhelm Bernhard Mohrhagen (born April 19, 1814 in Itzehoe ; † August 29, 1877 there ) was a German portrait, genre and landscape painter .
Life
Bernhard Mohrhagen was the illegitimate son of a member of the Schleswig-Holstein noble family von Rumohr and was adopted by the family of the cloister master Karl Friedrich Mohrhagen. From 1830 to 1832 he attended the Copenhagen Art Academy , where he met the landscape painter Louis GurlittFriendship made. In 1835 he began an unsteady wandering life. In 1835 he stayed with the Danish genre painter David Mondes in Frankfurt, then he was in Munich, Zurich, Geneva and Paris. He lived in Milan for a long time and found motifs for several pictures on Lake Como. In 1848 he settled in Itzehoe and sent exhibitions in Hamburg, Hanover and Berlin from here. In 1851 he settled in Hamburg and became a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . In 1834, the reunion with Louis Gurlitt in Hamburg led to a temporary cooperation, with Gurlitt painting the landscapes and Mohrhagen the staffage figures.
Works (selection)
- Self-portrait, around 1831, oil on canvas, 53 × 43 cm, Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig.
- Pictures in the Kunsthalle Hamburg (boat with country people on Lake Como 1853); Interior.
- Pictures in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum Magdeburg (today Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg ) (still life on Lake Como ).
- Pictures in the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum (Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation ) Schloss Gottorf .
- Genre and folk life pictures: “The Forbidden Novel”, “The Water Voyage”, “Lanfranco painting frescoes in his monastery”, “Monks read Dante ( Dante Alighieri ) - La divina commedia ( Divine Comedy ) in the presence of Dante”, “On the Comer Lake "," interior "
swell
- The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Revised new edition, ed. by Kay Rump, edited by Maike Bruhns , with the assistance of Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 .
- Mohrhagen, Bernhard (Carl Wilhelm B.) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 21 .
- Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Longing for Arcadia - Schleswig Holstein artists in Italy. Heide 2009, ISBN 978-3-8042-1284-8 , p. 226 f.
Web links
- Bernhard Mohrhagen in Weilbach's Kunstnerleksikon (Danish)
- Bernhard Mohrhagen. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
- Bernhard Mohrhagen on artnet
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Bärbel Hedinger : Louis Gurlitt, 1812-1897: Portraits of European landscapes in paintings and drawings. Hirmer Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-7774-7610-2 , p. 99.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mohrhagen, Bernhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mohrhagen, Carl Wilhelm Bernhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait, genre and landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Itzehoe |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1877 |
| Place of death | Itzehoe |