Carl Engel von der Rabenau

Engel von der Rabenau (next to the maid) in Hasenclever's studio scene , 1836

Carl Engel, called Engel von der Rabenau (born October 25, 1817 in Londorf , Gießen district in Upper Hesse , † March 31, 1870 in Rödelheim , today: City of Frankfurt am Main ), was a German painter of the late Biedermeier period .

Life

Carl Engel was the youngest son of Freiherr von Rabenauschen rent master and chief administrator Carl Wilhelm Engel (1761–1826) and his wife Christine Philipine, born. Pfeiff (1780–1874), born. From 1826 to 1832 he attended a private school in Gießen and then for two years the drawing school Franz Hubert Müller in Darmstadt . From 1834 to 1836 he studied under Theodor Hildebrandt at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf , where he stood out for his "study heads". In the years 1835 to 1836 he exhibited portraits in Düsseldorf, but also discovered the genre picture The Duck's Nest of Two Boys . He then studied at the Academy in Munich until 1839 . In Munich he met the sculptor Johann Baptist Scholl , with whom he went on a trip to the Alps in 1838. In 1839 an extended study trip through southern Germany followed. In the years 1841–1842 he was based in Frankfurt am Main and in 1842 he moved to Rödelheim, where he lived until his death. On October 16, 1842, he married Anna Margarethe Rabenau from Londorf in Londorf.

Engel von der Rabenau was portrayed in 1836 by the painter Johann Peter Hasenclever in his genre painting studio scene .

Works

The family of the painter Karl Seeger

• The silver wedding of Heinrich and Cecilie de Bary , oil on wood 1837, 33.4 × 23.5 cm, 1987 private property in Switzerland
• View into the studio of the sculptor Scholl , oil on canvas 1838, 73 × 90 cm, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt , Darmstadt
• Munich girl (also called bourgeois girl with beer and radish in the English Garden ), oil on canvas, 82.5 × 67.6 cm, 1987 private property
• Family portrait Rat Debus , oil on canvas 1840, 56.5 × 65.4 cm. Acquired in 2011 by the Association of Friends and Patrons of the State Museum and given to the State Museum
• Portrait of the family of the painter Karl Ludwig Seeger , oil on canvas, after 1840. Burned in the fire of the Glass Palace in Munich in 1931.
• The ruins of Vetzberg Castle near Gießen with bushes with wall and view of a city , watercolor over pencil, 30.3 × 25.7 cm. Since 1920: Frankfurt am Main
• Portrait of Adalbert Freiherr von Nordeck zur Rabenau (1817–1892); Private ownership, Marburg picture archive , picture index of art and architecture
• Pub scene ; Pencil drawing; Attributed to Carl Engel von der Rabenau (1817–1870), monogrammed CE at the bottom right, pencil drawing, black wash, on natural paper, 27 × 34.8 cm, laminated, stained, passep., O. R., (Sch), Palais auction Dorotheum Vienna October 27, 2008, No. 218
• Talburg Rabenau, oil on oak, 28.5 × 33 cm, private collection
• The love letter, oil on canvas, 53 × 43 cm, private collection

literature

• Angel, 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. 528 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Exhibition catalog

• Walter Stolle / Hessian Museum Association: Carl Engel, called von der Rabenau: a Hessian painter in the late Biedermeier period . Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-9801529-2-8 .

Web links

Commons : Carl Engel von der Rabenau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ life data at the Museum der Rabenau ; accessed on October 21, 2018
2. ↑ See nos. 83–85 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
3. ^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 117, no. 38 ( digitized version )
4. ↑ One million euros for art in: FAZ of December 29, 2011, page 52