Carl Schlickum

Unkel around 1805

Carl Schlickum (born January 22, 1808 in Eilpe , Westphalia , † 1869 in Blumfield , Saginaw County , Michigan , USA ) was a German-American illustrator , draftsman and painter of romantic landscapes.

Life

Born as the son of the geometer Johann Schlickum in the Hagen suburb of Eilpe, he studied at the Hagen trade school after completing his schooling , but later moved to the Royal Trade Institute in Berlin . It is from there that his first artistic works since 1836 are documented.

In 1839 Schlickum went on a long hike through the Westphalia of the early industrialization phase with the poet Ferdinand Freiligrath and created the templates for the work "The picturesque and romantic Westphalia" by Ferdinand Freiligrath and Levin Schücking .

In May 1849 he was involved in the Iserlohn Revolution . At the same time he must have married his 16 years younger wife Augusta (* 1824; † after 1880), because in 1852 Schlickum wandered with her and his two-year-old son Karl (later: Charles, * 1850) during the reaction era following the Iserlohn uprising. to the USA. Son William (* 1859) and daughters Bertha (* 1861) and Emma (* 1865) were born there. There he worked as a farmer and as an administrative clerk, while at the same time continuing his artistic work of romantic German landscapes. He died of suicide in Blumfield in 1869.

Works

Carl Schlickum: The Heisterbach ruins in the snow, around 1850 [1]
Carl Schlickum: The Nahethal: in eight views . Habicht, Bonn [approx. 1850]. Online edition dilibri Rhineland-Palatinate

Individual evidence

^ W. Claaß, E. Strauss: Chronicle of the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences , page 10
↑ Personal data of wife Augusta and all children according to the US census of 1880 in Blumfield. In 1880 the widow still lives in Blumfield with all the children. Both sons are farmers, Bertha works in the household and Emma is a student ( source: Mormon Archives in Utah, USA).

Web links

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

Literature by and about Carl Schlickum in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library

personal data
SURNAME	Schlickum, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American painter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 22, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eilpe , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH	1869
Place of death	Blumfield , Saginaw County , Michigan , USA

[1] W. Claaß, E. Strauss: Chronicle of the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences , page 10

[2] Personal data of wife Augusta and all children according to the US census of 1880 in Blumfield. In 1880 the widow still lives in Blumfield with all the children. Both sons are farmers, Bertha works in the household and Emma is a student ( source: Mormon Archives in Utah, USA).