Carl Abel (artist)
Carl Abel , also Abelgaard , completely Wilhelm Anton Christian Carl Abel (* 1748 , probably in Braunschweig , † April 5, 1795 in Flensburg ) was a German musician and painter.
Life
Wilhelm Anton Christian Abel came from a family of musicians and painters. He was a son of the concert master Leopold August Abel and his wife Benigna Charlotte, nee. Retzeln and nephew of the musician Carl Friedrich Abel and the painters Ernst August Abel and Ernst Heinrich Abel . His younger brother was August Christian Andreas Abel . In 1769 he was accepted into the Mecklenburg-Schwerin court chapel with his father and brother . In the same year the court orchestra moved to Ludwigslust . While the father was first violinist, the two brothers played second violin.
In 1771/72 he asked for a passport and resigned from the Mecklenburg court service. From 1772 to 1776 he was in the service of Duke Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm von Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg as a musician and painter . He then worked as a portrait and landscape painter in Copenhagen and took the name Abelgaard or Abildgaard after a Danish noble family and Nicolai Abildgaard . After further trips, he settled in Flensburg from 1785 and worked as a painter.
On May 5, 1773, he married the maid of honor Anna Maria Rosen (1743–1788) in Glücksburg . In his second marriage he married (under the name Vilhelm Antono Abelgaard ) on October 3, 1788 in Odense Elisabeth Margaretha, b. Martini (1755-1802).
Works
- Urup Manor , Horsens Art Museum
- Unidentified Seraphine Knight , National Museum of Sweden , Stockholm
literature
- Clemens Meyer : History of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin court orchestra . Verlag Ludwig Davids, Schwerin 1913 ( digitized version , HathiTrust ), p. 136
- Carl Abel. In: Kunstindeks Danmark / Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon (Danish).
- Abel, Wilhelm Anton Christian Carl . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 , p. 111 f.
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 14 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ So Weilbach (lit.), AKL (lit.) and Grewolls (lit.); Both Meyer and church book entries only use the first names Wilhelm Anton Christian
- ^ Next to or identical to Wilhelm August Christian Abel
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abel, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abelgaard, Carl; Abel, Wilhelm Anton Christian Carl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1748 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1795 |
| Place of death | Flensburg |