Carl Eggers
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Carl Adolf Johann Eggers (born October 1, 1787 in Neustrelitz ; † July 24, 1863 there ) was a German painter .
Life
Carl Eggers studied from 1809 to 1812 at the Art Academy in Dresden , where he was a student of the history painter Johann Friedrich Matthäi , and then went to Italy in the spring of 1813 for further training. There he lived in Rome from 1816 to 1830 . During this time he devoted himself to fresco painting through mechanical and chemical investigations of older frescoes so successfully that he was credited with reinventing the fresco technique.
Eggers worked artistically together with Philipp Veit in the Museo Chiaramonti (Braccio Nuovo) of the Vatican as a fresco painter, where he painted the personified Roma , in front of which coins were issued, an allusion to the coin collection that was then incorporated into the Vatican treasures. He belongs to the circle of the Nazarenes around Friedrich Overbeck .
After his return to Germany, he painted the washing of Christ's feet for the cathedral in Naumburg on behalf of Canon Immanuel Christian Leberecht von Ampach and from 1847 to 1848 he worked with Johann Wilhelm Schütze in the execution of the frescoes designed by Schinkel in the hall of today's old man Museum in Berlin . The fresco painting he created in the Neustrelitz cemetery chapel, the Angel of Resurrection , has not survived.
Eggers had been married to Elisabeth Seitz since 1819.
Works
- Portrait of the Lübeck merchant Johann Daniel Jacobj (1823 in Rome), Museum Behnhaus in Lübeck .
literature
- Eggers, Carl. In: Saur - General Artist Lexicon. Volume 32: Ebersbach - Eimbke. Saur, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22772-8 , pp. 341–342.
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| SURNAME | Eggers, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eggers, Carl Adolf Johann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1787 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neustrelitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1863 |
| Place of death | Neustrelitz |