Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein
Carl Christian Vogel , Vogel von Vogelstein since 1831 (born June 26, 1788 in Wildenfels , Saxony, † March 4, 1868 in Munich ), was a German painter.
Life
The son of the painter Christian Leberecht Vogel , who became famous for his portraits and pictures of children, was tutored by his father at an early age. From 1804 he attended the art academy in Dresden , where he copied many pictures from the Gemäldegalerie and also made his first own portraits.
In 1807 he moved to Dorpat in Livonia at the invitation of Baron Carl Otto von Löwenstern , whose children he had given drawing lessons in Dresden . In 1808 he moved to Saint Petersburg , where he set up a studio in the princely Gagarin palace and successfully portrayed nobles and diplomats.
In 1812 Vogel had enough funds to go on a long-awaited journey to Italy. On the way there he stopped in Berlin and Dresden, where he portrayed his parents and Franz Pettrich , among others .
Vogel lived in Rome from 1813 to 1820 , where many German artists were active at the time. There he converted to Catholicism in 1819 . He tried to find a middle ground between the antiquing and romanticizing schools that predominated there. His style leaned heavily on that of the painter Raphael Mengs . In Italy he copied a large number of paintings and murals by old masters. He also increased his collection of copies on later trips and even published a catalog on them in 1860.
In addition to religious pictures, landscape drawings and anatomical studies, Vogel also mainly created portraits in Rome, including those of Bertel Thorvaldsen , Lucien Bonaparte and - on behalf of the Saxon King - Pope Pius VII. Vogel was very popular with German artists in Rome, like one of Ringsei's history is illustrated: In 1818, following a unanimous decision by his colleagues, he received a bottle of Rhine wine from 1634, which the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig had donated to the artists as thanks for the artistic decoration of a ballroom.
Vogel had already started to collect a collection of portraits of contemporary celebrities in Petersburg. By the end of his life, he created over 700 portraits, initially as chalk drawings, later mostly as pencil drawings. Since the portraits in this collection are all drawn from life and most of the portraits have even been autographed by the person portrayed, they are also an important source for iconographic and biographical research on the people portrayed, including the 75-year-old Goethe . For his collection he draws in Rome a. a. Antonio Canova , Christian Daniel Rauch , Peter von Cornelius , Friedrich Overbeck , Johann Christian Reinhart , Philipp Veit , Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld and Friedrich Rückert . Vogel also had a catalog printed from his collection. Later he left her to King Johann I of Saxony in exchange for a lifelong pension . Today it is in the Kupferstich-Kabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
In 1820 Vogel was appointed professor at the Dresden Art Academy as the successor to the murdered Gerhard von Kügelgens . He stayed there for over 30 years, but repeatedly traveled within Germany and internationally (Paris 1830, London 1835). In Dresden, in addition to his teaching activities, he continued to create portraits (including of Ludwig Tieck and Friedrich von Raumer ), but also representative pictures such as the ceiling paintings for the dining room of Pillnitz Castle and numerous religious pictures (including altarpieces for the Dresden court church , commissioned by the canon Ampach 's crucifixion for the Christ cycle in Naumburg Cathedral and a series of paintings on the life of Mary in the Pillnitz Palace Chapel ). After he had portrayed all the members of the Saxon royal family, he was given the honorary title of “court painter” in 1824, and in 1831 he was ennobled with the title of “von Vogelstein”. He was made an honorary member of the Academies of Berlin (since 1832), the National Academy of Design in New York and the Academy of Saint Petersburg (both since 1833); many other honorary memberships at home and abroad followed.
From 1842 to 1844 he undertook a second long trip to Italy, which took him to Rome, Naples and Pompeii. From his preoccupation with Dante Alighieri arose the monumental picture Dante in his relationship to the Divina Commedia , which aroused great admiration in Italy and was bought by the Grand Duke of Tuscany for his Palazzo della Crocetta in Florence. Vogel created a similar picture in 1847–1852 for Goethe's Faust , and later another for Virgil's Aeneid . The theatrical pathos of these images was criticized many times, especially in Germany.
In 1853 Vogel was retired by Vogelstein. He left Dresden and moved to Munich. There he continued to create new paintings and replicas of his own earlier paintings. From Munich he traveled again to Rome from 1856–1857. He died in Munich in 1868.
Vogel had married Julie Gensicken, a daughter of the writer Wilhelmine Gensicken , in 1826 . His wife died on April 14, 1828. Vogel had only one son, Johannes Arnolf Leo Vogel von Vogelstein (1827–1889).
Works
- Numerous paintings and drawings are owned by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in the Galerie Neue Meister and in the Kupferstichkabinett Dresden .
- The ceiling paintings and frescoes from the life of Mary in the Pillnitz Castle Chapel were executed by Vogel von Vogelstein and his students from 1825 to 1830.
- The altarpiece in the Catholic Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Annaberg-Buchholz , which shows Saint Joseph of Calasanza , was created in 1844.
- For other works in private ownership or in the art trade, see artnet.de .
Publications
- Directory of the years 1814 to 1857 in Italy by C. Vogel v. V. partly self-made, partly collected markings and drawings after old Italian masters. Munich 1860.
- The main moments of Goethe's Faust, Dante's Divina Commedia and Virgil's Aeneïs. Illustrated and explained according to their inner context. Fleischmann, Munich 1861.
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Vogel von Vogelstein, Karl Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 135-139.
- Rainer G. Richter: Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein - A Nazarene in Saxony. In: Yearbook of the State Art Collections Dresden. Volume 15, Dresden 1983.
- Rainer G. Richter: His last stay was in Dresden-Joseph Rebell for his 200th birthday. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter . Journal for Saxon history, conservation of nature and the environment. Issue 2/1988, pp. 61-63.
- Rainer G. Richter: Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein. An exhibition for the 200th birthday. State Art collections, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden 1988.
- Rainer [G.] Judge: Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein and his relationship with Johann von Sachsen. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter, magazine for Saxon history, conservation of nature and the environment. Issue 1/1992, pp. 38-44.
- Rainer G. Richter: The art and artist friend Johann Gottlob von Quandt and the painter Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter. Journal for Saxon history, conservation of nature and the environment. Issue 6/2002, pp. 343-355
- Rainer [G.] Judge: Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein (1788–1868) and “The Members of the Dresden Conferences 1850/51”. In: Jonas Flöter, Günther Wartenberg (Ed.): The Dresden Conference 1850/51. Federalization of the German Confederation versus power interests of the individual states. Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-935693-70-2 .
- Rainer G. Richter: The relationship between the art and artist friend Johann Gottlob von Quandt and the Saxon court painter Carl Christian von Vogelstein. In: Johann Gottlob von Quandt - Goethe admirer and patron of the arts. A collection of contributions. On the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone in 1831 on the "Schönhöhe" near Dittersbach 170 years ago and the rededication of the restored fresco hall in Bevedere Schöne Höhe in 2001.
- Gerd-Helge Vogel : Between the Erzgebirge court of muses, the Russian tsarist seat and the German-Roman artists' republic. Carl Christian Vogel (von Vogelstein) and his relations with Russia. In: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Berlin and Nürnberg 2001, pp. 93–122 ( summary PDF).
- Ina Weinrautner: The collection of portraits by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein in Dresden. Master's thesis at the University of Bonn, 1990.
- Vogel von Vogelstein, Carl Christian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 488-489 .
Web links
- Works by and about Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein in the German Digital Library
- Carl Vogel von Vogelstein: The main moments from Goethe's “Faust”, Dante's “Divina Commedia” and Virgil's “Aeneid”. 1861
Individual evidence
- ↑ SKD Online Collection from the Daphne database ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 4, 2017).
- ↑ Pillnitz Castle Chapel, Parish St. Hubertus (accessed on January 4, 2017)
- ↑ Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche Annaberg (accessed on January 4, 2017).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vogel von Vogelstein, Carl Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vogel, Karl Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1788 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wildenfels , Saxony |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 1868 |
| Place of death | Munich |