Carl Becker (military painter)
Carl Becker (born January 29, 1862 in Karlsruhe , † before 1935 in Gengenbach ) was a German portrait and genre painter and illustrator for military art .
Life
Becker studied painting under Karl Heinrich Hoff the Elder at the Grand Ducal Baden Art School in Karlsruhe . He initially worked as a military painter in Berlin and from 1899 in Munich . In 1894 he created the Panorama Storming of Nuits together with Karl Kehr (1866–1919) and Friedrich Kallmorgen . From 1919 he lived in Gengenbach near Offenburg in Baden. Becker worked for the Illustrirten Zeitung in Leipzig .
Lieutenant of the 2nd Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 18 in parade uniform on horseback
Hunter of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Jäger Battalion No. 14
Book title on Friedrich von Dincklage-Campe (Ed.): Deutsche Reiter in Südwest. Personal experiences from the fighting in German Southwest Africa , 1909
literature
- Dankmar Trier: Becker, Carl . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , p. 156.
- Becker, 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 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 145 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Horst Ludwig : Munich painter in the 19th century . Hirmer Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 978-3-76541-801-3 , p. 74.
Web links
- Carl Becker , data sheet in the rkd.nl portal( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Carl Becker , entry in the portal kan.stadtwiki.net
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Goldstein: Monogram Lexicon 1: International directory of monograms by visual artists since 1850 . 2nd edition, reviewed and supplemented by Ruth and Hermann Kähler, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-014453-0 , p. 892 ( Google Books )
- ↑ Battle of Nuits , website in the portal ka.stadtwiki.net , accessed on October 13, 2018
- ↑ Deutsche Reiter in Südwest , website in the portal schoefert.de , accessed on October 13, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Becker, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait and genre painter and illustrator for military art |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | before 1935 |
| Place of death | Gengenbach , District Office Offenburg, Republic of Baden |