Carl Weddige
Carl Friedrich Joseph Weddige (born September 18, 1815 in Rheine ; † March 26, 1862 in Amsterdam ) was a German-Dutch portrait and genre painter and lithographer from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Weddige, son of entrepreneur Joseph Anton Johann Andreas Weddige (* 1780 in Lippborg ) and his wife Maria "Gabriele" Christine Theodora van Coeverden (* 1788 in Rheine) grew up in Rheine and attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1832 to 1837 . There were Karl Schaffer , Josef Winter Gerst and Karl Ferdinand Sohn his teachers. Due to illness, he left the Düsseldorf Academy in the 1st quarter of 1837. In 1838 he traveled to the Netherlands, for whose masters of the 17th century he had a particular preference. After visiting Paris , he settled in Amsterdam in 1842. There he married Esther Nunes Vaz (1819–1876), the daughter of Isaac Jacob Nunes Vaz (1793–1868) and his wife Debora Henriques de la Fuente (1797–1869). The couple had two sons, Louis Raphael Weddige (1855–1929, later diamond cutter and photographer) and Charles André Weddige.
Weddige is one of the well-known Rheiner artists whose works are exhibited in the Falkenhof Museum in Rheine.
font
- with Ludwig Weddige (brother): Coin find near Rheine on the Ems from 1853, containing, in addition to 45 tournaments, 6863 pieces of Low German denarii from the period before 1358 . Regensberg, Münster 1855 ( digitized version ).
literature
- Weddige, Karl . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 549.
- Weddige, Carl . In: Pieter A. Scheen : Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750-1880 . The Hague 1981, p. 571.
- Ellen Weddige: Carl Weddige. A painter from Rheine. Complete works . In: Rheine, yesterday, today, tomorrow. Magazine for the Rheine area . Volume 2, 1988, 94 pp.
Web links
- Carl Weddige , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Carl Friedrich Joseph Weddige , data sheet in the portal biografischportaal.nl
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weddige, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weddige, Carl Friedrich Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Dutch portrait and genre painter and lithographer from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheine |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1862 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |