Carl Sellmer (painter)

Carl Sellmer , also Karl, (born April 1, 1855 in Landsberg an der Warthe , † unknown) was a German painter.

He worked as a landscape, genre and animal painter in Kassel .

Works

• Heros von Borcke, Justus Scheibert: The great cavalry battle at Brandy Station June 9, 1863 , with 6 portraits, 5 maps and 7 full pictures after a war sketchbook drawn by the battle painter C. Sellmer. P. Kittel, Berlin 1893.
• Prince Bismarck . Eight collotype illustrations based on wall paintings. Unchangeable collotype and publisher of the Charlottenburger Lichtbilderfabrik Dr. Mertens and Brause in Berlin. 1890 ( illustration ).
• Flowers from Kaiser Wilhelm, dated (18) 85; The picture (oil on canvas) shows the postman who brings the artist a letter of thanks and flowers from Kaiser Wilhelm. 48 × 58.5 cm
• Allegorical title page - panel 1
• Wilhelm I , King of Prussia - Plate 2
• Minister of War von Roon - Plate 3
• Chief of the Military Cabinet Freiherr von Manteuffel - Plate 4
• First Guards Regime on foot (in parade from Sr. Majesty) - Plate 5
• Tambour battant (Garde-Grenadier) - Plate 6
• Infantry (Maneuver Delights) - Plate 7
• Hunter (in ambush) - Plate 8
• Garde du Corps (Castle Service) - Plate 9
• Cürassiere (quartermaker) - Plate 10
• Dragoons ( Vedette ) - Plate 11
• Hussars on Recognition - Plate 12
• Uhlans ( patrol passing a village) - Plate 13
• Feldartellerie ("in Avanciren shows off!") - Plate 14
• Fortifications (night battery construction) - Plate 15
• Pioneers (building bridges ) - Plate 16
• Train (maneuver de force) - Plate 17
• Medical Corps (seriously wounded) - Plate 18
• Landgendarmerie (without hunting license ) panel 19
• Landwehr ("out into the field") - plate 20

literature

• General artist lexicon. Lives and works of the most famous visual artists , revised and updated editions, prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer. Volume 4, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1901, p. 258 ( digitized version ).
• Sellmer, Karl . 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. 481 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sellmer, Karl: King Wilhelm and his army commemorative sheets for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the glorious Prussian army reorganization in 1860, 20 sheets in small folio (collotype) . 1st edition. Published by Theodor Fischer, Kassel and Berlin 1885.