Carl Böker

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The flower oracle
Portrait of a Young Indian , 1885

Carl Böker (born April 4, 1836 in Barmen (today a district of Wuppertal ); † February 15, 1905 there ; also Karl Böker or Böcker ) was a German painter .

Life

Böker, son of a railway attendant, studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1851 to 1858 with Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow and worked in Düsseldorf . He initially devoted himself to biblical subjects, for example in the paintings Joseph and Potiphar's Wife or The Flight to Egypt , but then switched to genre painting in the 1860s, to which his work can mainly be assigned. This includes motifs such as The Schoolboy's Good Testimony and The Little Recruits . Both pictures were taken in 1868; The latter was acquired for Babelsberg Castle and was owned by the German Emperor Wilhelm I. In the 1880s, Böker also turned to motifs from the Bavarian foothills, for example with traditional costume maker Sepp Pauldinger from Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1889) or the Schuhplattler oil studies from Schliersee and farmer from Hausham / Schliersee from the 1890s. Böker's small to medium format genre painting, which is assigned to the Düsseldorf School of Painting , was particularly influenced by Karl Joseph Litschauer and Friedrich Hiddemann . His large-format composition Der Gang zur Kirmes , a scene from the Glottertal in the Black Forest, with which he first took part in the Berlin Academic Art Exhibition in 1870, attracted great attention. The Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal acquired a picture of the carnival scene in 1913. Several of his works, including the morning toilet of two peasant girls (1876), Am Brunnen (1878) and bird thieves in interrogation (1878) appeared as wood engravings in the popular magazines of the time. From 1863 to 1905 Böker was a member of the artists ' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf and the academic artists' association Orient .

literature

  • Böker, Karl. In: Hermann A. Müller: Artist Lexicon of the Present . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 63.
  • A. Rosenberg: From the Düsseldorf painting school . Leipzig 1889, p. 42.
  • Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. I-1. Dresden 1891.
  • Böker, Carl . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 198 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists. prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller, edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer. Literary establishment Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1921, Volume 1 and Volume 5 (supplements).
  • Jürgen A. Wollmann: The Willingshausen painters 'colony and the Kleinsassen painters' colony . Fulda 1992.
  • Böker, Carl In: General Artist Lexicon, Volume 12 (Bobrov - Bordacev). Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-22752-3 , p. 163.
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , p. 167 (fig.).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Müller: Artist Lexicon. Bötticher, painters' works.
  2. ↑ Color illustrations in: Velhagen & Klasing's monthly books, 10th year, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1859/96, 2nd volume (H. 10, June 1896), p. 361, or 13th year, 1897/98, volume 2 , P. 496.
  3. ↑ (Grandmother with daughter and grandson tries on glasses in front of an optician's booth), oil / canvas, 120 × 95 cm; sign. ur: Carl Böker Df.
  4. ↑ Ulrike Becks-Malorny: The art association in Barmen 1866-1946.
  5. ↑ Wood engraving in: At home. Volume 23, 1886/87.
  6. ↑ both wood engraving in: Gartenlaube. 1880/81.
  7. ↑ digitized at peter-hug.ch , accessed on 27 November, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Böker, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böker, Karl; Böcker, Carl; Böcker, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1905
Place of death Barmen