Carl Porttmann

Fishing family on the shores of Lake Geneva

Carl Porttmann (* around 1812 or around 1840 in Düsseldorf ; † October 30, 1894 there ) was a German genre painter .

Porttmann was the son of the painter Wilhelm Porttmann . In 1837/1838 he studied at the Royal Prussian Art Academy in Düsseldorf, where Josef Wintergerst was his teacher.

Works

• The Declaration of Libes (1866)
• Children playing at the lake (around 1866/67)
• Familienglück (1867), a gift from the Sparkasse to the Städtische Kunstsammlung, Rostock in 1868.
• The chicken yard (exhibited at the 1st international art exhibition in the Royal Glass Palace in Munich in 1869)

literature

• Didaskalia. Leaves for mind, spirit and publicity. No. 41 of February 10, 1847 ( books.google.de ).
• Porttmann, Karel a Vilém . In: František Ladislav von Rieger, J. Malý (ed.): Slovník naučný . tape 11 : Obach – Ristić . Kober, Prague 1874, p. 575 (Czech, Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Porttmann, Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 291 .

Web links

• Carl Porttmann (German, 1837–1894) artnet.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Porttmann, Wilhelm. Hermann Alex. Müller: Biographical Artist Lexicon. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 424 ( retrobibliothek.de : "In recent years his son Karl P. has made himself well known through some genre pictures").
2. ^ Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (PDF, p. 91, status: November 2016: "Son of W. Porttmann").
3. ↑ finding aid 212.01.04 student lists the Dusseldorf Art Academy. Website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
4. ^ ^{A b} Friedrich Mueller: Porttmann, Karl . In: The artists of all times and peoples or the life and works of the most famous builders, sculptors, painters, copper engravers, form cutters, lithographers etc. Ebner & Seubert, 1870, p. 343 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
5. ↑ Bremen, March . In: Die Dioskuren: German art newspaper . April 1, 1866, p. 100 ( uni-heidelberg.de ): 'The declaration of love', by the well-known genre painter Carl Porttmann in Düsseldorf
6. ^ Porttmann, Karl . In: Guido Joseph Kern (Hrsg.): Catalog of the municipal art collection in Rostock . Council u. Universitätsbuchdruckerei, Rostock 1910, p. 29 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - The year of birth is assumed here to be around 1840).
7. ↑ paintings - Loge I . In: Provisional catalog of the I. International Art Exhibition in the Kgl. Glass palace in Munich . Munich 1869, p. 1 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).