Carl Rathjen

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Poster for the exhibition of works of art from private property and the Altonaer Künstlerverein in Donners'schen Schloss Altona in Donners Park , 1912, Altonaer Museum (black and white illustration of the poster)

Carl Rathjen (also listed as Rathien ; * December 12, 1855 in Bremen , † December 23, 1919 in Hamburg ) was a German landscape painter .

biography

Rathjen was born as the third son of the captain Johann Rathjen and spent his youth in Bremerhaven , where his father, inventor and manufacturer of a red patent paint for ship floor painting, bought a villa. Rathjen trained as a carpet merchant in London at the request of his father . There he made drafts of carpet samples. After his father's death in 1873 he returned to Bremerhaven.

From 1874 to 1876 he studied art at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Professors Müller and Lauenstein . From 1876 to 1880 Rathjen studied with Carl Ludwig in Stuttgart at the art school . In 1879/1880 he moved with him to Berlin and became a member of the Berlin Artists' Association . In 1887 he married Elisabeth Völschau.

Rathjen undertook extensive study trips to the Baltic Sea , Pomerania , East Prussia , Tyrol and Italy . He was temporarily active in the artists' colony in Ahrenshoop . In 1890, five pictures of Nikolaus Lenau's “Reed Lilies” earned him public recognition. His illustrations for Lenau's "Postillion" were exhibited in 1892 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . These pictures were acquired by the Reichspostmuseum in 1904. In 1895, after the birth of his daughter Anneliese, Rahtien moved to Altona ad Elbe , where his paintings were presented in the Altona Museum. During the First World War he took on various functions in the Altona Artists' Association , of which he was a founding member. He was also a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association . Rathjen died in 1919.

literature

  • Rathjen, Carl . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume II, Dresden 1898, p. 351
  • Exhibitions and lectures in the Altona Museum: Carl Rathjen , Verlag HW Köbner u. Co. GmbH, 1915

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German artist colonies and artist places, author Gerhard Wietek, Verlag Theimig, 1976, page 126
  2. ↑ Anniversary exhibition of the Kgl. Academy of Arts in the State Exhibition Building in Berlin , Verlag Berliner verlags-comtoir, 1886, page 171
  3. ^ Torkild Hinrichsen: In Otto's head: the Altonaer Museum 1901 to 2001 and the exhibition concept of its first director Otto Lehmann . 1st edition. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg, Ebenhausen near Munich 2001, ISBN 3-935549-04-0 , p. 86 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Rathjen, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rathien, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1919
Place of death Hamburg