Carl scales
Carl Waagen (* 1800 in Hamburg ; † November 26, 1873 in Munich ) was a German painter and lithographer .
Life
Carl Waagen was born as the son of the painter Friedrich Ludwig Heinrich Waagen (1750-1825) and his wife Johanna Louise Alberti († 1807), his older brother was the art scholar Gustav Friedrich Waagen (1794-1868). He studied at the academy in Dresden and the academy in Prague , he learned fresco painting from 1820 at the Munich academy . Waagen worked as a portrait painter in Breslau and then for two years as a restorer at the Berlin Museum. After a stay in Rome from 1827 to 1828, he settled in Munich.
He created portraits (oil paintings and miniatures), landscapes and history pictures as well as lithographs, etc. a. with the portrait of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil .
On October 17, 1831, he married the singer Nanette Schechner (1806–1860), of whom he also created a lithograph. Her sons were the ennobled Major General Gustav von Waagen (1832–1906), the painter Adalbert Waagen (1833–1898) and the geologist Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen (1841–1900).
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Scales, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, p. 780 f.
- Scales, Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 1 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scales, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scales, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1873 |
| Place of death | Munich |