Carl Gustav Wegener

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Carl Gustav Wegener (* around 1812 probably in Havelberg / Prignitz ; † February 18, 1887 in Potsdam) was a German landscape and marine painter. He was sponsored by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and in 1855 as Kgl. Appointed Prussian court painter .

Wegener was a student at the Berlin Academy and painted mainly Italian and Brandenburg landscapes as well as motifs from the English, Dutch and Norwegian coasts. In the years 1847 to 1848 he made the obligatory trip to Italy for artists of the time. From 1836 he chose Potsdam as his center of life and work. The Municipal Museum in Potsdam acquired 313 works (paintings, watercolors, oil studies and drawings) from his estate in October 1918.

Wegener, teacher of other famous painters such as Themistocles von Eckenbrecher and Stanislaus von Kalckreuth , painted mostly romantically staged landscapes, in which, however, a realistic approach to painting was represented.

Wegener's paintings were in the collections of the King of Prussia as well as in those well-known, mostly Potsdam and Berlin personalities such as B. Ludwig von Jacobs, represented.

literature

• Thieme, Becker: General Lexicon of Visual Artists, Volume 35, Page 250.
• Boetticher: Painter Works of the 19th Century, Volume II / 2, pp. 983–984.
• Carl Blechen and Carl Gustav Wegener in dialogue. Romanticism and Realism in Landscape Painting, ed. on behalf of the state capital Potsdam, Berlin 2014 (catalog for the exhibition of the Potsdam Museum from March 9 to May 18, 2014).