Carl Canow

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Carl Georg Nicolaus Canow (born January 9, 1814 in Wismar ; † October 30, 1870 ibid) was a German painter from Mecklenburg.

Life

Carl Canow was born as the younger child of the shoemaker Gabriel Johann Dietrich Canow (Kanow) and his wife Maria, geb. Karow, born in Wismar and baptized in St. Georgenkirche . After his school days he made an apprenticeship as a painter in Wismar and in Neubukow in 1830/31. He then first became a student of the painter Carl Düberg (1801–1849), who worked in Wismar and had learned in Munich and made contact with the Nazarenes on a trip to Rome . He then attended the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin from 1834-38 and was later influenced by August von Kloeber as a teacher. In 1840 he took part in the exhibition at the Berlin Academy. Canow was a recognized painter of portraits and genres in Wismar in the 19th century. He died of his own hand in 1870.

Two pictures ended up in the collection of the State Gallery in Schwerin . His estate and a cross-section of his significant work as a local testimony can be found in the collection of the City History Museum of the Hanseatic City of Wismar (Schabbellhaus).

Works

Portrait of Theodor Diederich von Levetzow, 1845

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Canow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Von Düberg has a portrait of Wismar's mayor Anton Haupt in the Wismar town hall, where he no longer finished painting the audience hall;
    Düberg, Carl Joachim Ernst . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 52 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). - With reference to museum holdings in the State Gallery in Schwerin.
  2. ↑ Friedrich Schlie : Descriptive directory of the works of recent masters in the Grand Ducal Painting Gallery in Schwerin. Printed by the Bärensprungschen Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin 1884, p. 8 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ René Wiese: Orientation in modernity: Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg in his time (= sources and studies from the state archives of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 8) Temmen, Bremen 2005, p. 93 (Fig.).
  4. ^ Friedrich Schlie: Art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume III, p. 95.
  5. ↑ Virtual Museum Mecklenburg
personal data
SURNAME Canow, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Canow, Carl Georg Nicolaus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1870
Place of death Wismar