Carl Happel

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Carl Happel (* 1819 in Heidelberg , † 1914 in Stuttgart ) was a German portrait, genre and landscape painter as well as an illustrator and poster artist.

Life

La Carnaval, Fin de Siècle, 1897

Happel began in Mannheim in 1839 as a student of the history painter Jakob Götzenberger . From 1843 he was in Mainz and Frankfurt a. M., in Paris between 1847 and 1850. There he learned as a student in Charles Gleyre's studio . In 1847 and 1849 he traveled to Le Havre , and in 1849 participated in the Paris Salon . Happel took part in the exhibitions of the Regensburg and Munich Art Association in 1856 and 1857. From 1860 to 1867 he was in the USA, especially in New York and Baltimore, then he went to Munich. In 1869/1870 he was a member of the German Artists' Association in Rome. From the 1890s at the latest, he made poster and magazine illustrations, which he signed with “Carl Hap.”. From 1900 Happel lived in Stuttgart.

Works

  • Half-length portrait of a man, pencil, charcoal / paper, 60.3 × 48 cm, Heidelberg, Kurpfälzisches Museum, inv. No. Z945 (biographical notes by Karl Lohmeyer on the reverse, cf. cat.Heidelberg 1976, p. 48. note 7)
  • Arabs in the desert, oil sketch, Heidelberg, Kurpfälzisches Museum, inv. No. G 1347 (cf., ibid.)
  • Hill with houses and gardens near Paris, 1847, oil / canvas, 17.2 × 20.6 cm, Heidelberg, Kurpfälzisches Museum, inv. No. G 1591 (Fig. In: Cat.Heidelberg 1976, Fig. 17)

literature

  • Nina Struckmeyer: Happel, Carl . In: Savoy, Bénédicte and Nerlich, France (eds.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 237
personal data
SURNAME Happel, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Happel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait, genre and landscape painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH 1914
Place of death Stuttgart