Carl Ehrenberg (painter)
Gottfried Ferdinand Carl Ehrenberg (born November 6, 1840 in Dannau near Oldenburg in Holstein , † May 14, 1914 in Dresden ) was a German history painter and illustrator.
Life
The son of a master upholsterer spent his childhood as a shepherd boy and after an apprenticeship as a painter he studied painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen with financial help from Oldenburg families . After four years he continued his studies in Dresden from 1862 with Julius Hübner and then with Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld . In 1866 he met several women from England in Dresden, who invited him to London in the summer of 1866, where he created "drawings from the lower classes", which he exhibited in the Kiel art gallery.
After the collapse of the entire Danish state and before the incorporation of Schleswig-Holstein by Prussia, the situation for visual artists in his home country was disastrous. Ehrenberg joined an initiative by the poet Klaus Groth with a fiery appeal to help the needy artists. Ehrenberg was one of the first Schleswig-Holsteiners to travel to Rome on a Prussian scholarship in October 1867, and in March 1868 he visited Capri.
Ehrenberg sought artistic and personal closeness to Friedrich Oberbeck, who made him a recommendation that led to an extension of his scholarship. His main Roman work "Let the little children come to me" found a place in the stairwell of the rectory of the Protestant Church in Via Toscana. In 1868 he portrayed Franz Liszt.
In the Franco-Prussian War he took part as a nurse. After stays in Munich and Antwerp, he worked permanently in Dresden from 1875. In 1881 he became a member of the Free German Hochstift .
Ehrenberg's history paintings had representations from Germanic mythology and religious subjects. In addition to Franz Liszt , he portrayed Princess Feodora of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg . As a draftsman he illustrated works of history and worked as an author himself under pseudonyms .
He was married to the concert singer and singing teacher Sophie Elise Johanne Georgine Ehrenberg born on October 8, 1875. Langheim (* 1848 in Eckernförde; † July 22, 1892 in Dresden). The two had two sons, Paul and Carl Ehrenberg , after the death of their mother they both grew up in the Villa Distelheim of the archivist Theodor Distel in Blasewitz .
Fonts
- Drawing and drawing lessons. Leipzig 1869.
literature
- Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Longing for Arcadia - Schleswig-Holstein artists in Italy. Heide 2009, ISBN 978-3-8042-1284-8 , pp. 287f.
- Ernst Sigismund : Ehrenberg, Carl (Gottfried Ferdinand C.) . 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. 392–393 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Carl Ehrenberg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 451 .
Footnotes
- ↑ Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2nd, revised and expanded edition. tape 2 : Brann-Einslin. Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 3-11-094656-4 , p. 857 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Ernst Burger; Franz Liszt - The Years in Rome and Tivoli, Mainz 2010.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ehrenberg, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ehrenberg, Gottfried Ferdinand Carl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German history painter and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dannau near Oldenburg in Holstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1914 |
| Place of death | Dresden |