Carl Werner (painter)
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Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner (born October 4, 1808 in Weimar ; † January 10, 1894 in Leipzig ) was a German watercolor and architecture painter .
origin
Carl Werner was a grandson of the actress Christiane Becker-Neumann .
education
He began studying painting with Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld in Leipzig, then from 1829 he studied architecture in Munich with Friedrich von Gärtner . In 1831 he finally turned to painting and in 1832 received a large travel grant for Italy. There his path led from Venice via Bologna and Florence to Rome . In Rome he converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1835 and married Giuditta Wallis, daughter of the Scottish painter George August Wallis . Werner is the father of the painter Rinaldo Werner (1842–1922).
Act
From 1845 he was a member of the German Artists' Association in Rome and was also its chairman for a few years. In 1851 he founded a master studio for watercolor painting in Venice . His most important student there was Ludwig Passini . From 1856 he was active again in Leipzig, spending the summer often in Great Britain and undertaking long trips abroad to Spain (1856/57), the Holy Land (1862 and 1864), Greece (1875) and several times to Italy. From 1882 until his death Werner taught watercolor painting at the Royal Art Academy in Leipzig .
Works (selection)
Cefalu Cathedral (1836)
St. Mark's Square in Venice
View of San Giorgio Maggiore and Santa Maria della Salute in Venice (1854)
Temple of Isis at Philae (1865)
House of Margarethe Maultasch in Merano (1892)
Main portal of the St. Michael Church in Jena
literature
- Hermann Arthur Lier: Werner, Karl Friedrich Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, pp. 61-63.
- Werner, Carl Friedrich Heinrich . 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. 404 .
- Gustav Lindke: Old Lübeck City Views , Lübeck 1968, No. 13 and p. 108
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thieme / Becker, p. 404.
- ↑ Thieme / Becker, p. 404.
- ↑ Thieme / Becker, p. 418.
- ↑ Thieme / Becker, p. 404.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werner, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Werner, Carl Friedrich Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German watercolor and architecture painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1894 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |