Bernhard Stange

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Bernhard Stange (born July 24, 1807 in Dresden , † October 9, 1880 in Sindelsdorf ) was a German romantic landscape painter.

Life

Oil painting The Evening Bells by Bernhard Stange

He was the son of the actuary Christoph Friedrich Stange, who worked for the Dresden City Council, who died of typhus, which was rampant in Dresden at the end of the Wars of Liberation in 1813. A little later in 1817 Bernhard Stange went to Leipzig to the master dyer Jäger, who raised him together with his own son, who later became the history painter Gustav Jäger. Actually, Stange wanted to be a dyer like his foster father, but ultimately he was able to prepare for a theology degree with the help of a scholarship at the Zwickau council school . Robert Schumann was one of his classmates there .

In 1827 he began studying at the University of Leipzig . The difficult study of the Hebrew language led him to drop out of theology and switch to law. After four years he successfully passed the exam. But afterwards he did not pursue a legal profession, but opted for art. He was very pleased with the paintings by Caspar David Friedrich . He went to the art school in Munich , where he became a member of a small painters' colony. He made several pictures, the first of which he sold in 1831. As early as 1834, the Saxon Art Association in his home town of Dresden acquired his painting Region from the Bavarian Highlands . Numerous other orders for exhibitions and private collections followed.

In 1858 he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit from St. Michael as a thank you for his artistic work from King Maximilian II of Bavaria . During this time he had moved to a country house in Sindelsdorf , where he worked and lived from then on.

literature

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Stange  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at the Pinakotheken
personal data
SURNAME Stange, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter of the Romantic period
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1880
Place of death Sindelsdorf