Carl Theodor Asen
Carl Theodor Asen (born May 22, 1875 in Elberfeld , † July 26, 1927 in Bonn ) was a German portrait and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Carl Theodor Asen, son of the master builder Johann Wilhelm Asen and his wife Mathilde, grew up in Elberfeld. His brothers were the future Berlin library councilor Johannes Asen (1882–1979) and the future Bonn architect Joseph Asen (1884–1968). After attending the humanistic grammar school , where the teachers noticed his artistic talent, Asen studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1891 to 1894/1895 . There he was a student of Heinrich Lauenstein , Hugo Crola and Adolf Schill .
From 1902 he lived as a painter in Bonn. As a member of the Bonn Artists' Association from 1914 , he helped shape the city's art life, especially in the 1920s. Some of his works, portraits and romantic landscape and village scenes from the Moselle around Treis and Karden can be seen in the Bonn City Museum .
literature
- Asen, Karl Theodor . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 72 .
- Asen, Karl Theodor . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 5, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22745-0 , p. 392.
Web links
- Carl Theodor Asen , biography in the portal treffpunkt-kunst.net
- Carl Theodor Asen , short biography in the portal archive.nrw.de (City Archives and City History Library Bonn)
- Carl Theodor Asen's estate
- Karl Theodor Asen , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The builder and architect Johann Julius Langenberg and his family , website in the portal stefanlangenberg.bplaced.net , accessed on November 11, 2018.
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( State Archive North Rhine-Westphalia ); Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, status: November 2016) , PDF .
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SURNAME | Asen, Carl Theodor |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Asen, Karl Theodor; Asen, Theodor |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1875 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld |
DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1927 |
Place of death | Bonn |