Caspar cracks

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Caspar Risse (born November 22, 1850 in Voßwinkel , today Arnsberg , † January 25, 1923 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape and vedute painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Risse was born as the fifth child of the married couple Johann Peter and Anna Maria Margarethe Risse, née Osterhaus, on the Stockey in Vosswinkel. At the age of 16, he began studying at the Düsseldorf Art Academy on January 8, 1867 , which he finished in July 1873. There were Andreas Müller , Heinrich Lauenstein , Albert Flamm and Eugen Dücker his teachers. Risse stayed in the Dückers landscape class, where he achieved good grades, in 1872/1873. Risse lived in Düsseldorf until 1875, after which he moved to an unknown address. Not until 1902 is it tangible again in Düsseldorf. In 1905 he moved to Leutesdorf . In 1909 he returned to Düsseldorf, where he moved several times and died in his apartment at Friedrichsplatz 8 in 1923 .

Works (selection)

  • Westphalian mill , oil painting, 1870s
  • Motif from the Hönnetal in Westphalia , oil painting, 1870s
  • The Rursee in the Eifel , watercolor, 1916
  • Afternoon at the Schwanenspiegel in Düsseldorf (on Sundays at the excursion restaurant) , watercolor, 1917
  • The Berger Tor , watercolor, City Museum, State Capital Düsseldorf
  • Schulstrasse with Maxkirche , watercolor, City Museum, State Capital Düsseldorf
  • Sailing ship lying on the beach , watercolor

Exhibitions

Participation in the exhibition of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Schloss Jägerhof from May 19, 1872 "until further notice" and from July 1 to 15, 1875 in the exhibition of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in the "Großer Saal" is documented. of the municipal Tonhalle Düsseldorf .

literature

  • The painter Caspar Risse . In: Vosswinkeler Rückblicke. Contributions to local history . 11th edition (December 2011), p. 8 f. ( PDF )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147
  2. ↑ See Catalog No. 173 and 184 of the service library in the Düsseldorf City Archives
personal data
SURNAME Cracks, Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter and vedute painter of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Vosswinkel , today Arnsberg
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1923
Place of death Dusseldorf