Carl Fielgraf

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Carl Fielgraf (* 1804 in Berlin , Mark Brandenburg , Kingdom of Prussia ; † probably around 1865) was a German portrait , genre and history painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Fielgraf was initially a student at drawing schools in his native Berlin and from 1818 under Karl Wilhelm Wach , before moving to Düsseldorf in 1832 at the Royal Prussian Art Academy . Up until the school year 1834 he was a student in the 1st class under Academy Director Wilhelm Schadow . In 1834 he exhibited in Düsseldorf. Then he returned to Berlin.

At the Berlin art exhibition in 1834, Fielgraf appeared with the paintings The Sick Woman and The Saint Elisabeth , which Atanazy Raczyński discussed in the volume Düsseldorf and the Rhineland of its history of modern German art as “Paintings of the Düsseldorf School” in the 1836 volume . The art historian Georg Kaspar Nagler found in 1837 that Fielgraf had acquired "an important reputation" through genre paintings and historical pieces.

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  1. ^ 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. 41 ( digitized version )
  2. See nos. 3426–3428 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. ^ Atanazy Raczyński : History of modern German art . First volume: Düsseldorf and the Rhineland . Berlin 1836, p. 211 ( Google Books )
  4. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1837, Volume 4, p. 320 ( Google Books )