Carl Graeb

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Fountain systems in Sanssouci. Chrome lithograph by Carl Graeb (1879) from an architectural sketchbook
The temple of Hathor at Dendera. Wall painting in the Egyptian courtyard of the Neues Museum Berlin. Original steel engraving by W. French after Carl Graeb
Athens with the Acropolis. Wood engraving after the mural in the Greek Hall of the Neues Museum Berlin
The grave of Carl Graeb in Berlin-Schöneberg

Carl Georg Anton Graeb (born March 18, 1816 in Berlin ; † April 8, 1884 ibid) was a German architectural and theater painter, as well as an etcher , decorative and landscape painter.

Life

Carl Graeb studied at the Berlin Academy with Carl Blechen and the court theater painter Johann Gerst , his future father-in-law. In 1838 he was employed as a theatrical painter at the Königsstadt Theater , but gave up the position again after 14 months and toured Switzerland , southern France with the Pyrenees , Italy and Sicily until 1843 .

From 1844 to 1852 he ran a studio for decorative and theater painting together with Johann Gerst . In 1851 he was appointed court painter and commissioned Friedrich Wilhelm IV and his wife Elisabeth to carry out a collection of 94 views of architectural landscapes , including motifs from Stolzenfels Castle , Berlin, Potsdam and the surrounding area and Charlottenburg . In the early 1850s, three wall paintings were also created in the Neues Museum .

In 1855 he was appointed royal professor and in 1860 a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

Carl Graeb died in Berlin in 1884 at the age of 68. His grave is in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg . It is a lattice tomb with a high, pedestal obelisk made of brown-red granite as a grave monument, the front of which bears a bronze medallion with the portrait of the dead. Graeb's wife Minna geb. Gerst (1819–1891) is buried here. The last resting place of Paul Graeb was dedicated as an honor grave of the state of Berlin from 1965 to 2015 .

His son Paul Graeb (born February 4, 1842 in Berlin; † January 5, 1892 in Berlin) was also an architecture and landscape painter.

Two portfolios with watercolors from Muskau Park were rediscovered in 2018 and will be presented in a special exhibition in Muskau in 2020.

Works

  • Temple of Hathor at Dendera . Wall painting in the Egyptian courtyard of the Neues Museum, Berlin
  • Athens with the Acropolis . Wall painting in the Greek Hall of the Neues Museum, Berlin
  • The holy grove at Olympia . Wall painting in the Greek Hall of the Neues Museum, Berlin
  • around 1842 Babelsberg Castle (lost)
  • around 1842 View from Babelsberg Castle to the Glienicke Bridge (lost)
  • after 1843: Landscape near Palermo in the evening light . Gallery Bassenge , Berlin
  • Bornstedt (undated, probably 1848 or 1849, watermark from 1846). Watercolor, pen and gray, 31 × 44.2 cm
  • Bornstedt and Belvedere from Ruinenberg of view (watermark of 1849). Watercolor, pen and gray, 30.8 × 44.2 cm ( Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG))
  • 1846 The Friedensteich with the civil cabinet, the Friedenskirche and adjoining buildings . Watercolor, 30.7 × 44.2 cm (SPSG)
  • 1846 S. Maria in Cosmedin in Rome . Oil on canvas, 40 × 53 cm (SPSG)
  • around 1850 View from the atrium of the Friedenskirche into the Marly Gardens . Watercolor, pen and brown ink, 30.6 × 43.8 cm (SPSG)
  • around 1850 Potsdam-Sanssouci. The Church of Peace from the northeast . Watercolor, pen and brown ink, 26.7 × 34.4 cm (SPSG)
  • around 1852/54 Bird's eye view of the orangery from the east with terraces . Watercolor, pen in gray and brown, 29.7 × 51.7 cm (SPSG)
  • Orangery and view of Bornstedt (year?). Watercolor, pen and gray, 25.5 × 35.4 cm (SPSG)
  • around 1852 Bornstedt and the Belvedere on the Klausberg seen from the slope of the ruins mountain . Watercolor, 30.8 × 44.2 cm (SPSG)
  • 1854 View from the Kahler Berge near Potsdam . Watercolor, 44.3 × 55.5 cm (SPSG)
  • 1854 Potsdam. The " eight corners " . Watercolor, pen in gray and brown on paper, 30.2 × 20.2 cm (SPSG)
  • 1868 The old Berlin town hall with the court arbor . Oil on canvas, 26.5 × 34.2 cm, Märkisches Museum Berlin
  • 1872 Choir of the Elisabethkirche in Marburg with the tomb of Landgrave Ludwig II of Hesse and his wife Mechthild of Württemberg

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Graeb  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 752.
  2. ↑ The delicate lightness of colors - rediscovered Muskau watercolors by the landscape painter Carl Graeb (1816–1884)
personal data
SURNAME Graeb, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graeb, Carl Georg Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural and theater painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1884
Place of death Berlin