Carl Götzloff
Carl Wilhelm Götzloff (born September 27, 1799 in Dresden- Neustadt, † January 18, 1866 in Naples ) was a German landscape painter.
Life
He grew up as the youngest of three children (Friedrich August and Karoline Wilhelmine) of the city watchman Friedrich Adrian Götzloff and his wife Dorothea, b. Bitch on.
From 1814 to 1821 Carl Götzloff was a student at the Art Academy in Dresden with Johann August Hahn, master drawing, Carl August Richter , etcher and engraver, Johann Adolf Darnstedt , professor of copperplate engraving , Friedrich Christian Klaß, professor of landscape painting, Caspar David Friedrich and Johan Christian Clausen Dahl .
As early as 1820, two landscapes he painted received their first award at the exhibition of the Art Academy in Dresden. During this time he was around Carl Ferdinand Berthold (1800–1837). As a scholarship holder, he travels to Rome a year later via Trier , Kaub , Heidelberg , St. Gotthard and Bellinzona accompanied by Josef Anton Dräger (October 25th). A second art trip with Johann Christian Reinhart took him to Tivoli and Frascati in March 1822 . From June to November he went on an excursion with Heinrich Reinhold to the Albaner and Sabiner Mountains, where he made the acquaintance of Joseph Anton Koch . Further study trips followed in 1823 and 1824 and took him to the Gulf of Naples . Towards the end of 1824 he made a trip to Sicily and Malta with Baron Üxküll-Gyllenband .
Move to Naples
This became his new employer and Götzloff moved to Naples. Among his traveling companions in Naples were Ludwig Richter , Ludwig von Maydell , Johann Nikolaus Hoff , Johann Heinrich Schilbach and Hans Georg Haderer with whom he hiked to Vesuvius to paint.
From 1826 he lived in Naples at Vicoletto del Vasto 15, together with Anton Sminck van Pitloo (1790–1837), Giacinto Gigante (1806–1876) and Teodoro Duclere (1816–1867). In the same year he was awarded honorary membership of the Dresden Art Academy. In 1827 Götzloff became an art teacher in the service of Prince Leopold I of Saxony-Coburg in landscape and moral studies. He commissioned eight paintings. In the next few years he made the acquaintance of August von Platen , Gustav Gündel , Carl Gustav Carus in Pozzuoli, Joseph von Führich , Adolf Zimmermann , Carl Blechen , Ludwig Leopold Schlösser, August Kopisch and Carl Christian Bunsen . Further trips to Sicily and stays on Capri and Ischia and in Matese , in Piedmont follow in 1831 and 1833.
On April 1, 1835 he was appointed court painter to the King of the Two Sicilies , Ferdinand II . He started his first trip home in the company of his bride Louisa Chentrens. During his stay in Dresden he was appointed a member of the royal art academy. On December 11, 1835, he married Louisa Chentrens in Dresden.
Birth of children
- 1836 - Birth of the first son, Hugo Richard (August 9th), in Naples
- 1838 - birth of the second son, Karl Hermann (August 9th)
- 1841 - birth of the third son, Guido Edmondo (January 8)
- 1842/44 - birth of the fourth son, Albert Oscar
In 1845 the family moved to Cappella Vecchia No. 5 in Naples. Theodor Mommsen visited him in the same year . Orders from the Belgian king enabled him to travel to Sicily and Ischia. He was on friendly terms with Friedrich Hebbel . A year later he was appointed antiques agent for the Berlin Museum by the King of Prussia. His reputation was now very far and he got commissioned work for the Russian Tsarina and Prince Albrecht of Prussia
Return efforts to Germany
In 1848 the family moved to Sorrento during the political unrest. Götzloff also stepped up his hiring efforts in Berlin due to renewed financial bottlenecks. That year his friend Christian August Kestner visited him. In April 1849 he accompanied the 4th Bern Regiment to conquer Catania . In 1850 the family returned to Naples, where his eldest son Hugo Richard died in March. In 1852 he was made a knight in the "Order of Leopold, King of the Belgians". With Pastor Christian Friedrich Bellermann, Götzloff sent his son Carl Hermann to Berlin on May 17th that year. He made trips to Sorrento, Genoa and Switzerland. In Zurich he met the family's old friend, Theodor Mommsen, who was a frequent guest in the family's home in Sorrento or Naples. In 1855, after the death of his wife Louisa in the autumn, he tried harder to return to Germany. Desperate requests for employment in Germany are evidence of his efforts.
In 1857, after a trip to Dresden, he treated himself to a cure in Karlsbad in July (10th to 25th July) and then a stay on Lake Como . Hopes of returning to Germany were dashed in 1861 when his paintings in the art exhibition in Dresden were not sold and his sister had to send them back to him. In 1864 he had to buy his son Guido Edmondo out of captivity. A year later this son married Marie Bonnefoi from Naples. But he did not live to see the birth of his first grandson, because the artist died on January 18, 1866.
literature
- Hans Geller: Götzloff, Carl Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 596 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Carl Wilhelm Götzloff. A landscape painter from Dresden on the Gulf of Naples. Catalog for the exhibition in the Museum Behnhaus Drägerhaus , Lübeck a. in the Middle Rhine Museum Koblenz. Edited by Alexander Bastek u. Markus Bertsch. Peterssberg: Imhof Verl. 2014.
- Dieter Richter: Naples, biography of a city . Wagenbach, Berlin 2005, pp. 152–155 ( Die casa Goetzloff ).
- Ernst-Alfred Lentes: Carl Wilhelm Götzloff. A Dresden romantic with a Neapolitan home . With catalog raisonné of the paintings. Belser Verlag, Stuttgart and Zurich 1996.
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Götzloff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage Carl Wilhelm Götzloff
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Götzloff, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Götzloff, Carl Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 1866 |
| Place of death | Naples |