Carl Gottfried Eybe

Carl Gottfried Eybe (born December 17, 1813 in Hamburg ; † February 17, 1893 in Blankenese ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting and Hamburg School as well as a lithographer , sculptor and businessman.

Life

The son of the Königsberg innkeeper Gottfried Eybe first completed a commercial apprenticeship. He was then introduced to painting in Hamburg by Friedrich Carl Gröger , together with Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien , with whom he remained friends all his life, and by Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath . From 1839 to 1847 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Karl Ferdinand Sohn and later with Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow , who had a strong influence on him. He then settled down as a painter in his hometown of Hamburg in 1848, but at times earned his living with sculpture and portrait lithographs. Later study trips led him through Germany, the Netherlands , Hungary and Northern Italy . Another friend was the painter Hermann Becker sen. (1817-1885). Carl Gottfried Eybe joined the Düsseldorf artists 'association Crignic in 1846 and was a member of the artists' association Malkasten in 1853/54 and 1858 . In Hamburg he was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . His portrait, pencil drawing by Christian Boettcher and an oil painting by Ludwig Knaus from 1850 are kept by the artists' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf.

In Düsseldorf, under the influence of Schadow, he initially created paintings on religious subjects, such as Hagar and Ismael in the desert (1845) or Caritas (1847), which the Hamburger Kunsthalle acquired. In Hamburg he turned to popular figure scenes, especially depictions of children, such as Kinder im Walde (1851) and Badende Kinder (1858), and received numerous commissions for bourgeois portraits. Eybe was represented with his work at numerous exhibitions, including 1854 in Munich, 1880 in Düsseldorf and 1887 in Hamburg.

Selection of works

• Susanna in the bath (the landscape painted by Andreas Achenbach ), Hamburg, Kunsthalle
• Portrait of Johann Georg Hackius , Portrait of Barbara Hackius (1839), Hamburg, Kunsthalle
• Portrait of Louis Vohsen , Portrait of Fanny Vohsen (1844)
• Portrait of the painter Julius Bakof (1819–1857) (1847), Hamburg, Kunsthalle
• Portrait of Peter Ludwig Ahrens , Portrait of Johanna Magdalena Ahrens (1847), Hamburg, Museum for Hamburg History
• Portrait of Hans Schierven Knoph (1850), Hamburg, Museum for Hamburg History
• Portrait of a boy (1875), Kiel, Kunsthalle
• Portrait of the lodge master FCL Wage , formerly Provincial Lodge Lower Saxony

Fonts

• Personal curriculum vitae, Düsseldorf, Malkasten-Archiv

literature

• Hamburg Artist Lexicon . Volume 1: The visual artists . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1854, p. 68 ( digitized version ).
• Hermann Becker the Elder J. (Ed.): German painters. From Asmus Jakob Carstens up to the more recent times critically portrayed in individual works. Leipzig 1888.
• Eybe, Carl Gottfried. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898
• Hermann Alexander Müller , Hans Wolfgang Singer : General Artist Lexicon. 1895, p. 411.
• Ernst Rump : Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area , Otto Bröcker & Co., Hamburg 1912, p. 35 ( digitized version ).
• Theodor Raspe : Eybe, Carl Gottfried . 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. 124–125 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists. prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Volume I. Literary Institution Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / Main 1921.
• Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Volume 4, Paris 1976.
• Enrique Mayer: Annuaire international des ventes. 1980, p. 687.
• Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 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 , pp. 336-337 (fig.).
• Eva Maria Krafft, Carl-Wolfgang Schümann: Catalog of the masters of the 19th century in the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 1969, p. 58 ( books.google.de excerpt).
• Hamburger Kunsthalle (ed.): Catalog of the newer masters. Hamburg 1922, p. 252 ( books.google.de excerpt).
• Hamburger Kunsthalle (ed.): Directory of the collection of paintings. Hamburg 1887, p. 59.

Web links

• Images on artnet
• Oil painting Hagar and Ishmael in the desert (1845)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia. P. 296 (PDF)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
2. ^ Joachim Grossmann: Artists, Court and Bourgeoisie. 1994, p. 119 ( books.google.de ).
3. ^ Volmer Collection Foundation, Wuppertal.