Carl Elb
Carl Elb (born Carl Samuel Elb on April 6, 1817 in Dresden ; died there in 1887 ) was a portrait and genre painter .
Life
Carl Samuel Elb was born as the son of the businessman Nathan Levy and his wife Lea Elb. In 1831 he began his studies at the Dresden Art Academy, which he continued in 1839/1840 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Theodor Hildebrandt . In 1843 he returned to Dresden and worked here as a portrait painter. In 1858 he married Pauline, born 15 years his junior. Friedheim. In 1859 their first son Moritz Aron Elb (d. 1917) was born, in 1861 their second son Felix Nathan.
Elb painted numerous portraits , stylistically influenced by Jeremias David Alexander Fiorino , who had married his sister Johanna, who was five years older than him in 1831, and also worked on behalf of wealthy Dresden residents and the Saxon court. The best-known portrait is that of the actor Emil Devrient (1856), which is in the Dresden City Museum . The oil painting of the General of the Infantry, Bernhard von Rabenhorst (see opposite) from 1850 , is on loan to the Military History Museum in Dresden .
Like Fiorino, Carl Elb was the bankers Joseph Bondi and Carl von Kaskel , Berthold Auerbach and Joseph Wallerstein , a member of the Dresdner Kunstverein.
He died in Dresden in 1887, the exact date of his death is not known. It can be assumed that he converted to Christianity; only his wife and son Moritz were buried in the New Jewish Cemetery.
Other works
- A winegrowing girl from the Rhine region (Düsseldorf, 1840)
- Girl at the toilet (Düsseldorf, 1841)
literature
- Ernst Sigismund : Elb, Carl . 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. 447 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Biography ( memento from April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on juden-in-mittelachsen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elf, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Elf, Carl Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait and genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1887 |
| Place of death | Dresden |