Carl Friedrich Wendelstadt

Carl Friedrich Wendelstadt (* 1786 in Neuwied , † 1840 in Gent ) was a German history and portrait painter , etcher , lithographer , glass painter , inspector and drawing teacher.

Life

Before 1809 Wendelstadt took drawing and painting lessons in Frankfurt a. M. and went to Paris from 1809 to 1813. There he was a student in Jacques-Louis David's studio and at the École des beaux-arts . From 1813 he was a private drawing teacher in Frankfurt am Main . Around 1815 he was in charge of the art collection of the lawyer Johann Georg Grambs (1756–1817) and from 1817 to 1840 he was an inspector at the Städel Art Institute . From 1820 he taught as a drawing teacher at the Städel Art Institute. In 1823 he traveled to Dresden and Munich. In 1828 he published the series of lithographs “Outlines according to old Italian and old German paintings in the possession of CF Wendelstadt”.

family

A daughter of Wendelstadt was the pianist Justine Wendelstadt (1825–1908), who married the composer and music writer Selmar Bagge on August 10, 1854 in Frankfurt am Main .

Works

• Annunciation of the birth of Christ to the shepherds according to JH Roos, before 1810, 146 × 190.5 cm, inv. No. B0347, Frankfurt a. M., Historical Museum
• Christ and Maria Magdalena, around 1811, technology unknown, altar sheet for the Weißfrauenkirche, destroyed in 1944 (non-profit sheets 1812, p. 491f.)

literature

• Corina Meyer, Nina Struckmeyer: Wendelstadt, Carl Friedrich . In: Bénédicte Savoy , France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843. De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 309-311 ( digitized version ).