Carl Bertling

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Carl Bertling , also Karl Bertling (born September 7, 1835 in Dahlinghausen , Kingdom of Hanover , † February 23, 1918 in Wachau , Kingdom of Saxony ), was a German history , portrait and genre painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

From 1852 Bertling studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Under the direction of Wilhelm von Schadow he created the first known picture under the title Hagar and Ismael . Another teacher at the Düsseldorf Academy was the painter Eduard Bendemann . Between 1862 and 1864 he helped him with the execution of the monumental painting Cain and Abel (The Death of Abel) , which now hangs in the stairwell of the former Naumburg jury court . Bertling was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . The animal painter Christian Kröner was one of his friends . In 1879 Bertling moved to Dresden . In 1898 he lived there in the inner old town at Maxstrasse 5.

Works (selection)

Young Roman woman with child , 1877
  • Hagar and Ishmael
  • Cain and Abel (The Death of Abel) , 1860–1864, today the Naumburg correctional facility , from 1862 involved in the execution based on a cardboard box by Eduard Bendemann
  • Ahasver , Illustration (in: German Artist Album )
  • Risen Savior , 1869, altarpiece
  • Lorelei , 1871
  • Night and Morning , 1874, allegorical wall painting in wax colors for the staircase of Villa Böker , Bonn
  • Young Roman woman with child , 1877, the Sistine Madonna modeled
  • Philosopher , 1885
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , 1886
  • Choir window of the Nathanaelkirche Leipzig-Lindenau , 1887
  • Hermaphroditus and Salmacis , 1892
  • Crucifixion of Jesus , 1893, altar window (middle window of the choir) in the Christ Church Freital-Deuben
  • Christ's temptation , 1902, picture in the village church of Dresden- Schönborn
  • Diana wakes Apollo , 1910
  • Bedouin woman on a Nile boat with a view of a pyramid , 1911

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Bertling  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Julia Sophie Baum, Olga Remesow: The death of Abels (1860-64). In: Christian Scholl, Anne-Katrin Sors (ed.): Before the paintings. Eduard Bendemann draws . Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86395-083-5 , p. 140 ( books.google.de ).
  2. Inventory list in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on March 12, 2016
  3. ^ Adolf Bothe (Ed.): Address book of contemporary visual artists. Self-published, Munich 1898, p. 21 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ^ Digitized from: German artist album. Second year, Verlag von Breidenbach & Co., Düsseldorf 1869.
  5. One day full of texts , website in the portal mephisto976.de , accessed on March 12, 2016
  6. ^ The church building , website in the portal nathanaelgemeinde.de , accessed on March 12, 2016
  7. Christ Church Deuben and Johanniskapelle , website in the portal freital.de , accessed on March 5, 2018.