Carl von Binzer

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Italian landscape , 1860

Carl Heinrich Friedrich Freiherr von Binzer (born October 19, 1824 in Glücksburg (Baltic Sea) , † July 22, 1902 in Schwabach ) was a German writer and painter.

biography

Carl von Binzer was one of the sons of the poet and journalist August Daniel Freiherr von Binzer and the writer Emilie Henriette Adelheid von Gerschau . The parents led an unsteady wandering life in Flensburg, Glücksburg, Kiel, Altona, Leipzig and Cologne before they found a permanent home in Altaussee in the Salzkammergut. On the advice of his father, Binzer began studying law in Bonn and became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity in 1845 . After giving up his studies, he first went to the art academy in Antwerp.

After the outbreak of the Schleswig-Holstein uprising against Denmark, Binzer hurried to the theater of war and participated in the campaign to the end. On April 27, 1849 he was accepted into the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Here he was a student of Wilhelm von Kaulbach and Moritz von Schwind, among others . In 1852 he traveled to Rome with August Emil Braun, director of the German Archaeological Institute, where he received an apartment and studio in the Palazzo Venezia, the official residence of the Austrian ambassador Count Moritz Esterházy. Here Binzer, who had accepted Austrian citizenship, received a. a. the painters August Riedel , Julius Muhr , Rudolf Lehmann and the writer Paul Heyse . In 1852 he became a member of the German Artists' Association in Rome. The access to high social trips earned him his first commission, the painting of the private chapel of the papal house prelate Count Robert Lichnowski. Binzer's role model was Peter Cornelius, who made him hope to work on the painting of the so-called Campo Santo in Berlin, which however never came about.

In Rome, Binzer found favor with Ottilie von Goethe, whom he pleased in many ways and who in turn introduced him to the Roman salon of the wealthy Rhenish banker's daughter Sibylle Mertens-Schaafhausen in 1853. The attractive bachelor was invited on a trip to Sicily in 1854, where he was favored by the young Countess Marie Schwerin, but when the relatives saw the modest family home in Altaussee, the relationship was immediately broken off. In 1855 Binzer followed his patroness Ottilie von Goethe to Venice, who also did everything in her power to get him orders. Archduke Maximilian of Austria, later Emperor of Mexico, visited him in his studio and invited him to his Miramare Castle near Trieste.

In 1856 Binzer finally received the long-awaited major order. Graf and Countess Hohenthal, whom he had met in Rome in 1853, commissioned him to decorate two halls of the Dölkau Palace near Leipzig with themes from the history of the Hohenzollern family. In 1860, after Ottilie von Goethe had vouched for him, Binzer married Antonie Zwez, daughter of the Privy Councilor of Justice in Weimar, and had two sons. After the birth of the younger son, the 24-year-old mother died of puerperal fever. Carl remained lonely and in 1866 began a wandering life through Rome, Naples, Venice, Lyon, Paris, Belgium and Switzerland.

The Villa Königsgarten, in Fischerndorf 59 in Altaussee.

After his father's death in 1868, Carl von Binzer inherited the houses he had built at Fischerndorf No. 39 and Fischerndorf No. 59 in Altaussee in Styria . The Fischerndorf 59 house was set up as a painter's studio. There he dealt with landscape painting. He received some commissions from Emperor Maximilian . In later years he also worked as a writer and journalist. Among other things, he wrote five volumes of memoirs.

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SURNAME Binzer, Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Binzer, Carl Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter in Austria
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Glücksburg (Baltic Sea)
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1902
Place of death Schwabach