Carl Arnold Gonzenbach

Carl Arnold Gonzenbach (born July 21, 1806 in St. Gallen ; † June 13, 1885 there ) was a Swiss painter, engraver and draftsman.

Life

Carl Gonzenbach attended Johann Jakob Lips' painting school in Zurich from 1821 to 1825 , then with Otto Felsing and Samuel Amsler in Munich , where he had been enrolled at the art academy from 1826, in 1828 he traveled to Paris, where he worked with François Forster , in 1831 / 32 he went on a trip to Italy. He then returned to St. Gallen, where he worked as a portrait painter and gave drawing lessons. From 1838 to 1878 he lived in Munich, then again in St. Gallen.

Works (selection)

In addition to some portraits in oil, he made reproductive cardboard and copper engravings based on images by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Julius von Schnorr, Bonaventura Genelli and Ludwig Vogel.

Günther and Brunhilde
Siegfried and Kriemhild , after Julius Schnorr
The death of Arnold von Winkelried
The oath on the Rütli and
The Tell shot , after Ludwig Vogel
The criminal out of lost honors , after Wilhelm von Kaulbach
five sheets "From the life of a witch"
four sheets “From the Life of an Artist” after Bonaventura Genelli
two sheets on Shakespeare's Storm , after Kaulbach
Based on models by Friedrich Pecht and Arthur von Ramberg , he created three steel engravings for the Schiller Gallery , published in 1859 .
Together with Alexander Rordorf , Gonzenbach created an illustration for Dante's Divina Commedia based on an oil painting by Carl Vogel von Vogelstein , which hangs in the Grand Ducal Palace delle Crociette in Florence .

Carl Arnold Gonzenbach:
Georg Herwegh , copper engraving
Tell's Knabe from the Schiller Gallery ,
steel engraving after Friedrich Pecht , around 1859

literature

General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists. Revised and updated edition, prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . Edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer . Volume 2, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1896, p. 71 ( digitized version ).
Heinrich Appenzeller: Gonzenbach, C arl Arnold. In: Swiss Artist Lexicon. Volume 4, Frauenfeld 1917, pp. 177-179 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Gonzenbach, Carl Arnold . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 387 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Carl Arnold Gonzenbach - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Carl Arnold Gonzenbach in the catalog of the German National Library
Tapan Bhattacharya: Gonzenbach, Carl. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Remarks

↑ Entry of the matriculation database .
^ Friedrich Pecht: List of Figures. In: Schiller Gallery. Characters from Schiller's works. Drawn by Friedrich Pecht and Arthur von Ramberg, fifty sheets in steel engraving with explanatory texts by Friedrich Pecht. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1859 ( Tell's Knabe , Wallenstein and The Greek Woman ).
↑ Jutta Assel, Georg Jäger: Rordorf. In: Carl Vogel von Vogelstein, The Main Moments from Goethe's Faust, Dante's Divina Commedia and Virgil's Aeneis / A Documentation, Prof. Dr. Wulf D. v. Dedicated to Lucius ( goethezeitportal.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Gonzenbach, Carl Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gonzenbach, Karl Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss engraver and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 21, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH	June 13, 1885
Place of death	St. Gallen

[1] Entry of the matriculation database .

[2] Friedrich Pecht: List of Figures. In: Schiller Gallery. Characters from Schiller's works. Drawn by Friedrich Pecht and Arthur von Ramberg, fifty sheets in steel engraving with explanatory texts by Friedrich Pecht. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1859 ( Tell's Knabe , Wallenstein and The Greek Woman ).

[3] Jutta Assel, Georg Jäger: Rordorf. In: Carl Vogel von Vogelstein, The Main Moments from Goethe's Faust, Dante's Divina Commedia and Virgil's Aeneis / A Documentation, Prof. Dr. Wulf D. v. Dedicated to Lucius ( goethezeitportal.de ).