Carl Ernst Forberg

Carl (Karl) Ernst Forberg (born October 20, 1844 in Düsseldorf ; † April 9, 1915 there ) was a German engraver , etcher and painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Forberg was born as the son of the Leipzig- born musician Fritz Forberg, who, as a student of Julius Rietz, was a popular cello, violin, piano and organ player in Düsseldorf's musical life. He worked as a solo cellist for Robert Schumann and held the position of organist at the Garrison Church in Düsseldorf . His son Carl Ernst attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1858 . There were Josef Winter Gerst , Andreas and Karl Mueller , Heinrich mosquito and Rudolf Wiegmann his teachers. From 1860 he was trained by Joseph Keller , the founder of a copper engraving school at the Düsseldorf Academy, in the techniques of copper engraving . At the end of the 1860s he went to Vienna . There he worked for Karl von Lützow's art journal Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst and from 1872 as head of the Society for Reproductive Art . In 1879 he was appointed Professor of Copper Engraving at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf as Keller's successor. He held this office until 1911. At times he was deputy director of the art academy. He also emerged at the end of the 1870s by participating in the Düsseldorf Radirclub and at the turn of the century by founding the Düsseldorf Academic Association "Laetitia" . Forberg's son, Kurt Forberg (1900–1979), became a successful private banker who had amassed a modern art collection since the 1950s and, in 1961, established the Ernst Forberg Foundation named after his father to support and promote the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Carl Ernst Forberg's brother, Wilhelm Forberg (1864–1899), also worked as an engraver in Düsseldorf.

Work (selection)

The removal of the Jews into Babylonian captivity (after Eduard Bendemann)

Frederick the Great (after Wilhelm Camphausen)

Solomonic wisdom (after Ludwig Knaus)

• The wonderful fish haul (after Raffael )
• Feed my sheep! (after Raffael)
• Assumption of Mary (after Peter Paul Rubens )
• The fruitless sermon (after Benjamin Vautier )
• The wine tasting (after Eduard Kurzbauer )
• The bird's nest (after Julius Geertz )
• The removal of the Jews into Babylonian captivity (after Eduard Bendemann )
• Jeremiah at the fall of Jerusalem (after Eduard Bendemann)
• Childhood love (after Heinrich von Angeli )
• Consultation with the lawyer (based on Wilhelm Sohn )
• Luther's disputation with Eck (after Carl Friedrich Lessing )
• Jewish quarter in Amsterdam (based on Andreas Achenbach )
• The Great Elector (after Wilhelm Camphausen )
• Frederick the Great (after Wilhelm Camphausen)
• In the park of Villa Borghese (after Oswald Achenbach )
• Kaiser Wilhelm's last military show (after Theodor Rocholl )
• Kaiser Wilhelm's ride around Sedan (after Theodor Rocholl)
• Solomonic wisdom (after Ludwig Knaus )

literature

• Manfred Neureiter (Hrsg.): Lexicon of ex-libris artists . 3rd, revised edition. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86386-449-1 , p. 186.
• Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. Volume 6, Leipzig 1906, p. 754. (online at: zeno.org )
• Walter Cohen : Forberg, Carl Ernst . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 199 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Carl Ernst Forberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ernst Forberg , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
• Ernst Forberg , campaign results in the invaluable.com portal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See nos. 3535–3565 and 3571–3574 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
2. ↑ Petra Hölscher: The Academy for Art and Applied Arts in Breslau. Paths to an art school 1791–1932 . Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2003, ISBN 3-933598-50-8 , p. 75. (online)
3. ^ Bettina Baumgärtel : Chronicle of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1815–2011. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Volume 1, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , p. 369.
4. ^ Journal of Fine Arts. Fourteenth volume, Verlag EA Seemann, Leipzig 1879, p. 64. (online)
5. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Verlag des Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 244. (digitized version)
6. ^ Bettina Baumgärtel: Chronicle of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1815–2011. 2011, p. 370.
7. ↑ The Forberg Collection ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website in the portal albertina.at , accessed on November 23, 2014. 
8. ↑ Ernst Forberg Foundation , website in the portal kulturfoerderung.org , accessed on November 23, 2014.
9. ↑ See: Christian Scholl, Anne-Katrin Sors (ed.): Before the paintings: Eduard Bendemann draws . Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86395-083-5 , p. 151, fig. 51. (online)