Carl Scherres

Carl Scherres (born March 31, 1833 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † April 21, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German painter .

Life

At the age of 16, Scherres came to the Königsberg Art Academy in 1849 , where he mainly devoted himself to landscape painting . One of his fellow students was Hugo Knorr . In 1853 he accompanied his teacher August Behrendsen on his study trip along the Rhine and through Switzerland and Northern Italy. After the sketches, drafts and studies of this trip, some of his most interesting oil paintings were later created in his studio .

Between 1859 and 1866 Scherres worked as a freelance painter in Gdansk . After a short detour in his hometown, Scherres went to Berlin in the spring of 1867. There, the following year, the Association of Berlin Women Artists appointed him as a drawing teacher at this women's academy .

Scherres spent the time of the Franco-German War with various administrative tasks and after the end of the war he again became a lecturer at the private art school. In 1878 he was named professor. During this time, one of his most important pictures, the “Flood in East Prussia” ( National Gallery Berlin ) was created.

The 53-year-old Scherres met the 23-year-old Polish-Jewish pianist Flora Friedenthal in Berlin in 1886 and married her. The marriage remained childless. Friedenthal had studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai Grigorjewitsch Rubinstein , among others , and at the age of 16 she completed her studies brilliantly with the piano sonata No. 29 (Beethoven) (fortepiano).

reception

Scherres often thematized landscapes in a melancholy mood in his pictures , mostly from the Mark Brandenburg . Scherres' depiction of water is also stylistically skilful; z. B. "Flood in East Prussia".

Works

After sunset on a swamp
Evening at the edge of an oak forest
Noon on the heights
When there is a snowstorm in the village
Forest hut at dusk
Artushof (staffage by Wilhelm Stryowski )

literature

Carl Scherres . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 36 .

personal data
SURNAME	Scherres, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 31, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH	Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH	April 21, 1923
Place of death	Berlin