Carl Emanuel Conrad

Carl Emanuel Conrad
(wood engraving from the Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung , No. 1082, March 3, 1864)

Carl Emanuel Conrad (born March 20, 1810 in Berlin ; † July 12, 1873 in Cologne ) was a German architectural painter . His best-known work is The Great Cathedral Picture from 1856, which artistically anticipated the completion of Cologne Cathedral . As a painter, Conrad belongs to the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Between 1823 and 1834 Conrad studied at the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin with a focus on architectural painting with Johann Erdmann Hummel , who brought him close to a precision in perspective representation. In 1835 Conrad came to Düsseldorf at the suggestion of Wilhelm von Schadow , where he studied at the art academy in the landscape class with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer from 1835 to 1839 . After completing his studies, he ran a private art studio in Düsseldorf and gave drawing lessons at the newly established municipal secondary school in Citadellstrasse . Later he also taught at the art academy.

Conrad mainly painted medieval monuments in their natural surroundings. His pictures are characterized by a remarkable level of detail.

In the summer of 1871 he traveled to Rome to meet Pius IX. to hand over his picture View of Cologne Cathedral in its completion . After his retirement in the same year, Conrad moved to Cologne. There he died in 1873 in the Bürgerhospital on Neumarkt , where he had gone to treat a "severe abdominal disorder".

Honors

1857: Honorary title Royal Professor
1865: Red Eagle Order IV class

Work (selection)

The great cathedral picture (1856)

The interior of the new synagogue in Cologne

The interior of St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin
The interior of the rotunda of the museum in Berlin
The royal palace and the long bridge in Berlin
The old church in Bilk
You St. Quirinus Church in Neuss
The interior of the cloister of St. Severin in Cologne (1837)
The Hamtor in Neuss
Santa Maria in the Capitol in Cologne
Mill in the forest
View of Wetzlar
A castle in the evening light
The Cathedral and Gutenbergplatz in Mainz (1841)
The Cologne Cathedral (1843/44)
The Thames with the Customhouse (1852)
Cloister at the cathedral in Aachen
Bingen an der Nahe by moonlight
Cloister from Maulbronn in Swabia
The interior of the new synagogue in Cologne
The big cathedral picture

literature

Moritz Blanckarts : Conrad, Karl Emanuel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . Volume 4, 1876, p. 441 ( digitized version ).
Conrad, Karl Emanuel. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 176 ( archive.org ).
Conrad, Carl Emanuel. In: Eduard Firmenich-Richartz (ed.), Hermann Keussen (collaboration): Cologne artists in old and new times. Johann Jacob Merlos revised and expanded news of the life and works of Cologne artists. Verlag von L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1895, Sp. 173 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Hans Vollmer : Conrad, Carl Emanuel . 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. 309 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Ludwig Giese: The large cathedral picture by Carl Emanuel Conrad. An anniversary gift for Pope Pius IX. In: Kölner Domblatt , yearbook of the Zentral-Dombauverein. Born 1981, pp. 190–206.

Web links

Commons : Carl Emanuel Conrad - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Carl Emanuel Conrad , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, kunstpalast.de PDF).
^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 144.

^ Municipal Realgymnasium with grammar school classes in Düsseldorf: Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Realgymnasium on May 28, 1838. Voss & Cie., Düsseldorf 1888, p. 108.

^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 130

↑ Commissioned work for Friedrich Wilhelm IV.

↑ Size: 285 cm × 241 cm.

personal data
SURNAME	Conrad, Carl Emanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Conrad, Karl Emanuel; Conrad, CE
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architectural painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 20, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	July 12, 1873
Place of death	Cologne

[1] Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, kunstpalast.de PDF).

[2] Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 144.

[3] Municipal Realgymnasium with grammar school classes in Düsseldorf: Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Realgymnasium on May 28, 1838. Voss & Cie., Düsseldorf 1888, p. 108.

[4] Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 130

[5] Commissioned work for Friedrich Wilhelm IV.

[6] Size: 285 cm × 241 cm.