Caspar Arnold Grein
Caspar Arnold Grein (* 1764 in Brühl ; † August 11, 1835 in Cologne ) was a German still life and landscape painter and draftsman .
Life
From 1779 Greins trained in Cologne with the flower painter Johann Martin Metz . In 1790 he was responsible for running his own drawing school in Cologne. Grein spent the years 1802 to 1804 in Paris , together with his student Matthias Joseph de Noël , as a student at the École des Beaux-Arts . Then Grein returned to Cologne.
literature
- Catalog of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne , Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Chr. Gehly, Cologne 1869, pp. 80–81 ( digitized version ).
- Monika Motylinska: Grein, Caspar Arnold . in: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (Ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843 . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 98-99.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grein, Caspar Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German still life and landscape painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1764 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bruehl |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1835 |
| Place of death | Cologne |