Carl Clasen

Carl Clasen , also Karl Clasen (born October 19, 1812 in Düsseldorf ; † June 29, 1886 there ), was a German history and portrait painter as well as an etcher , lithographer , watercolorist , draftsman and caricaturist of the Düsseldorf school .

Life

S. Bonifacius , small devotional picture of the Association for the Dissemination of Religious Images , engraved by Heinrich Kipp after an original by Carl Clasen

The merchant's son Clasen, cousin of the history painter Lorenz Clasen , who was a few months younger , studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from the school year 1829/1830 after attending grammar school, which was supposed to prepare him for a theological career . There were Heinrich Christoph Kolbe , Theodor Hildebrandt , Karl Ferdinand Sohn , Wilhelm von Schadow , Josef Winter Gerst and Rudolf Wiegmann his teachers. From 1841/1842 to 1864/1865 he had his own studio as a master student in the old academy . Clasen was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . He mainly created history pictures and portraits, allegories, saints and altarpieces. Among other things, he provided templates for the Association for the Dissemination of Religious Images . For numerous churches in the Rhineland, but also in France, he made altar paintings and cardboard boxes for glass paintings, including designs for the Aachen Minster . His characters are composed with a sure hand, carefully painted and depicted without great pathos. In 1851 Joseph Kehren painted a portrait of Clasen.

Works (selection)

• Self-portrait, 1839, portrait no. 51 in the friendship gallery of 57 individual portraits of the Düsseldorf painting students and their friends , 1835–1845
• Pope Sixtus with the deacon Laurentius , 1841/1842
• Christ on the cross with Mary and John , 1885
• Freedom , caricature for the revolution of 1848
• Rudolf von Habsburg on the hunt (exhibited in the Düsseldorf Gallery , New York City, 1851 )
• The assassination of Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne
• St. Peter , altarpiece
• S. Bonifacius

literature

• Clasen, Carl . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 56 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Clasen, Karl . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 106.

Web links

• Clasen, Carl , short biography in the portal stiftung-volmer.de
• Carl Clasen , data sheet in the rkd.nl portal( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
• Karl Clasen , website in the portal old-master-drawings.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johannes Andreas Romberg, Lorenz Clasen , Friedrich Faber: Conversationslexicon for fine arts . Second volume, Romberg's Verlag, Leipzig 1844, p. 459 ( Google Books ).
2. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on September 12, 2016.
3. ^ Joseph Kehren: Portrait of the artist Carl Clasen , website in the portal lot-tissimo.com , accessed on September 12, 2016.
4. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel : The friendship gallery . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 2, pp. 20, 28-30 (catalog no. 13).