Caesar Willich

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Caesar Willich (born November 11, 1825 in Frankenthal , † July 15, 1886 in Munich ) was a German portrait and genre painter .

Life

Caesar Willich was one of six children of the Frankenthal lawyer and politician Friedrich Justus Willich (1779-1853). From 1843 to 1845 he studied painting with Jakob Schlesinger at the Royal Prussian Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin . From 1846 he continued his studies in Munich in the studios of Karl Schorn , Moritz von Schwind and Karl Rahl . After participating in the March Revolution in 1848 , he had to flee to Switzerland.

Between 1850 and 1853 Willich studied in Louis Gallait's studio in Antwerp before moving to Paris from 1853 to 1856 . There he completed an apprenticeship in Thomas Couture's atelier . In 1857 he went to Italy and lived there for a long time in Rome.

After his amnesty, Willich returned to Munich in 1861, where, through the intermediary of Otto Wesendonck, he was commissioned to paint a portrait of Richard Wagner . In 1862, Wagner was his model in Biebrich . The original is in the Stadtmuseum Bonn, of which there are three personal copies.

He was married to Johanna Roemer since 1869, their son was the architectural historian Hans Willich (1869–1943).

Works (selection)

Portrait of Richard Wagner , 1862, Leipzig City History Museum
  • A gypsy girl playing with a lizard , whereabouts unknown
  • Portrait of Richard Wagner , 1862, Stadtmuseum Bonn, various copies of Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig and Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim
  • Landscape near Sorrento , 1859, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
  • Girls from Capri , Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
  • Gypsy woman , Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
  • Self-portrait , 1876, Historisches Museum der Pfalz Speyer
  • Park landscape with grotto , Historisches Museum der Pfalz Speyer
  • Portrait of Prof. Dr. Georg von Neumayer , Historisches Museum der Pfalz Speyer

literature

Web links

Commons : Cäsar Willich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. Caesar Willich: Portrait of Richard Wagner on wesendonck.blogspot.com.