Carl Bössenroth
Gottlieb Carl Albert Bössenroth (born February 6, 1863 in Berlin ; † September 26, 1935 there ) was a German painter . He worked in Munich , Dachau , Eckernförde and Berlin.
Life
After studying at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin and the Art Academy in Munich, Bössenroth settled in Munich in 1890 and created his first works there. Atmospheric, large-format oil paintings with street scenes from Munich and the surrounding area, including depictions of Marienplatz by day and by night, date from this time . These identify Bössenroth as a representative of Impressionism . He developed his own characteristic style, especially with his often only schematic design of the figures.
On June 6, 1905, the artist bought a corner piece of land in Dachau in the so-called artists' quarter and built a small house with a studio. There he ran a small paint factory for the production of tempera pastel colors that he had developed and which he had patented. An original paint box from that time is now in the possession of the Carl Bössenroth Archives. As early as 1910 he sold the property to the painter Otto Richard Gans , who had a spacious villa built in which the small Bössenroth house was opened.
Numerous trips have taken him to Italy , the Canary Islands , the Shetland Islands and Norway . In 1906 he moved to Dachau , where a painters' colony had been established at that time . Lovis Corinth and Carl Spitzweg are among the best-known representatives of this community, which existed from around 1850 to 1914 .
In 1916 Bössenroth started working as a marine painter in Kiel , and from May in Eckernförde . Numerous works with depictions of city and port life there have survived from this period of his work; some of them are now in the Eckernförde Museum . In the 1920s and 1930s he stayed frequently on the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn , where he performed numerous painting assignments for local farm owners.
From 1919 Bössenroth lived in Hamburg , from 1921 back in Berlin, where he died completely impoverished in 1935.
The Carl Bössenroth archive of the municipal museum in Eckernförde maintains the artist's artistic estate and has compiled a catalog raisonné that is continuously updated. In the year of the 75th anniversary of his death, another large exhibition took place from July 3 to August 22, 2010 on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Museum Eckernförde (following the first exhibition in 2000), on which works by the Privately owned by the artist.
Individual proof
- ↑ Thiemann n.d., p. 169
literature
- Carl Thiemann : Memories of a Dachau Painter, Dachau o. J.
- Uwe Beitz: Gottlieb Albert Carl Bössenroth. 1863 to 1935. Between the Alps and the Baltic Sea . Catalog for the exhibition in the Museum Eckernförde from June 25 to August 20, 2000. (Writings of the Museum Eckernförde; Volume 1). Edited by the city and the Heimatmuseumsverein Eckernförde e. V., Eckernförde 2000
- Uwe Beitz: Gottlieb Albert Carl Bössenroth. 1863 to 1935. Mountains, lakes, sea & more . With contributions by Ursula Lins and Albrecht Pohlmann. Catalog for the exhibition in the Museum Eckernförde from July 4 to August 22, 2010. (Writings of the Museum Eckernförde, Volume 8). Edited by the city and the Museumsverein Eckernförde eV, Eckernförde 2010
Web links
- Gallery of submarine pictures from Bössenroth (English labeled)
- Information about Bössenroth at the City Museum Eckernförde
- Literature by and about Carl Bössenroth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Carl Bössenroth Archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bössenroth, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bössenroth, Gottlieb Carl Albert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1935 |
| Place of death | Berlin |