Carl Faust (painter)
Carl Faust , also Karl Faust (born October 30, 1874 in Reyershausen , Hanover province , † November 14, 1935 in Düsseldorf ), was a German genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School . In particular, he appeared as a copyist of old masters .
life and work
From 1894 Faust studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Johann Peter Theodor Janssen , Heinrich Lauenstein and Clausmeyer his teachers. In addition to genre and portrait painting, he specialized in the reproduction of works by old masters. He made replicas of works by Anthony van Dyck , Frans Hals , Hans Holbein the Younger , Bartolomé Esteban Murillo , Rembrandt van Rijn and Tizian . One of the personalities who valued him as a portrait painter was the art collector Alexander Schnütgen , who sat in an armchair in 1910 and had him paint in 1918, the year he died.
literature
- Faust, Carl. In: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , p. 344.
- Walter Cohen : Faust, Carl . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 302 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume 5, Gründ, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7000-3010-9 , p. 326.
Web links
- Carl Faust , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Carl Faust , documentation in the portal bergmannschor-reyershausen.de
- Carl Faust , auction results on the portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen , Manuela Beer: 100 years of the Schnütgen donation. A chronicle. Greven Verlag, Cologne 2006, p. 13.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faust, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Faust, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genre and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reyershausen , Province of Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1935 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |