Carl Rechlin

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Carl Rechlin
Parade near Kalisch
on September 14, 1835
Carl Rechlin's birth house in Stralsund, memorial plaque to the right of the entrance door
Stamp of Russia 2013 No 1739 Battle of Leipzig

Carl Gustav Rechlin (born March 31, 1802 in Stralsund , † December 22, 1875 in Tempelhof near Berlin) was a German battle and genre painter.

Life

Rechlin was the sixth child of master tailor Georg Fridrich Rechlin (1761–1809) and his wife Catharina Sophia (1765–1811), b. Greck, born in Stralsund. In his artistic endeavors he was encouraged by Wilhelm von Humboldt at a young age . He received his training between 1826 and 1828 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin. The evidence of his time suggests that he was possibly a student of Franz Krüger . In his work he emulated him.

In 1830, together with Ludwig Elsholtz and Julius Schultz, he produced the uniform work The Prussian Army . On behalf of the Prussian royal house and the Russian imperial court, he created a number of paintings with themes from the Wars of Liberation and from everyday military life of his time. His works have different signatures. The variants are known: "C.Rechlin", "CRechlin" and "Rechlin".

One of the commissioned works is the inauguration of the Alexander Column in Petersburg , of which he was a contemporary witness in 1834. The commissioned work was placed in the Royal Palace in Berlin. Another important commissioned work is the parade near Kalisch . It shows a scene from the maneuver near Kalisch in September 1835, which was jointly held by Prussia and Russia. The painting can be seen today in Charlottenburg Palace .

Between 1832 and 1863 his works were exhibited at the art exhibitions of the Royal Academy of the Arts in Berlin. Following the example of the first world exhibition, the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations took place in New York from July 14, 1853 to November 1, 1854 . Here Rechlin presented his 4 × 6 m painting Moment after the Battle of Kulm. General Vandamme as a prisoner before Emperor Alexander and Friedrich Wilhelm III.

In 1840 Rechlin made a painting of the battle of Major Karl Friedrich Friccius in storming the Grimma Gate on October 19, 1813 in Leipzig. It showed the moment when Major Friccius penetrated the city through the breach and hung in the assembly room of the magistrate in the Kneiphöfisches Rathaus in Königsberg below a portrait of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. It was on 29./30. Destroyed August 1944 by fire triggered by a British phosphorus bomb.

For the Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur Berlin (KPM) he made several miniature editions of his paintings as motifs for porcelain vases.

From 1849 Rechlin worked as a teacher for free hand drawing at the Berlin Cadet House. In 1857 he was appointed professor. He taught until shortly before his death in 1875.

In 1833 Rechlin married the wealthy farmer's daughter Agnes Louise Auguste Sophie Stackebrandt from Tempelhof, with whom he had seven children. The family lived on Tempelhofer Dorfstrasse. In 1862 his wife died of dropsy.

Due to progressive blindness, it was hardly possible for him to be artistically active in later years. On December 22, 1875 Rechlin died of weakness. He was buried in the old churchyard of the Tempelhof village church .

Rechlin's second son, Carl Wilhelm Ludwig Bernhard Rechlin (* October 24, 1836 in Tempelhof; † December 26, 1882 in Tempelhof), was also a battle painter. The identical names and occupations of father and son after their death led to the fact that they were mistakenly combined into one person in the artistic world.

In 2013, a special stamp was issued in Russia in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig with the image of the painting Attack of the Leib-Cossacks near Leipzig on October 4, 1813 .

Works (selection)

About 85 works can be identified for Rechlin.

  • 1832: Group from the spring maneuver 1832
  • 1834: Inauguration of the Alexander Column in St. Petersburg on September 11, 1834 . Made on behalf of Friedrich Wilhelm III.
  • 1835: Parade near Kalisch on September 14, 1835 . Made on behalf of Friedrich Wilhelm III., Today: Charlottenburg Palace
  • around 1835: A Prussian invalid in front of a farmhouse , today: Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg (depot)
  • 1836: Beach area with a choppy sea. Staffage: an old pilot with two children
  • 1837: The farewell parade in Kalisch . Made on behalf of Friedrich Wilhelm III.
  • 1837: Battle scene from the Wars of Liberation , today: Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg (depot)
  • 1839: Battle near Goldberg
  • 1840: The storming of the Grimma Gate in Leipzig . Made on behalf of Friedrich Wilhelm III.
  • 1844: Battle of Leipzig . Made on behalf of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II, today: State Hermitage Museum
  • 1845: Attack by the Leib Cossacks near Leipzig on October 4, 1813 . Made for the Orlov family, today: Museum of the History of the Don Cossacks in Novocherkassk
  • 1849: Moment after the battle of Kulm. General Vandamme as a prisoner before Emperor Alexander and Friedrich Wilhelm III. Made on behalf of Tsar Nicholas I, today: Hamburger Kunsthalle (depot)
  • 1858: Battle of la Belle Alliance on June 18, 1815 (Blücher and Wellington near Waterloo)
  • 1867: Battle of Skalitz (The King's Grenadier Regiment at Skalitz)
  • around 1872: Battle album of the Franco-German campaign 1870-71. Photographic images based on sketches by Prof. Rechlin. Edited by Rudolf Worgitzky, Berlin

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Rosenberg: The military painters: Franz Krüger and his school. Elsholz. - Crow. - Rechlin . In: The Berlin School of Painting 1819–1879: Studies and Reviews . Wasmuth, Berlin 1879, Fifth Chapter, p. 284–288, here p. 288 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ Major Friccius at the Grimmaischer Tor - A painting in the Kneiphöfisches Rathaus in Königsberg . In: Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung . Volume 20, Episode 27, July 5, 1969, p. 12 ( preussische-allgemeine.de [PDF] with photo).
personal data
SURNAME Rechlin, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rechlin, Carl Gustav (full name); Rechlin, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German battle and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1875
Place of death Tempelhof near Berlin