Caspar Scheuren

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Caspar Scheuren
Illustration to Eichendorff's Der Einsiedler
Tree study , watercolor around 1830
Second inside cover of the Illustrirten Zeitung from 1872;
59 (half-year) volume, July to December 1872

Caspar Johann Nepomuk Scheuren (born August 22, 1810 in Aachen , † June 12, 1887 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter and illustrator .

Life

After training in the studio of his father Aegidius Johann Peter Joseph Scheuren , he trained as a landscape painter from 1829 to 1835 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Study trips were important for his "romantic and fantastic artistry", the role models of Carl Friedrich Lessing and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer as well as the reading of Walter Scott .

Caspar Scheuren is a representative of the Düsseldorf School of Painting and is considered to be one of the most important Rhineland painters of the 19th century. The painter Theodor Groll was a private student of Scheuren .

Most of his pictures deal with legends, stories and motifs from famous areas of the Rhine ( Rhine romanticism ). As early as the end of the 1830s he gave up landscape painting in oil and created a new genre of allegorically decorated, finely drawn and gracefully colored views, illustrations , dedication and commemorative sheets in which landscape, figures and ornamentation are combined in an imaginative way. These works have been reproduced many times.

From 1839 he lived in Düsseldorf and was appointed professor at the academy in 1855. The Aachen History Association placed a memorial plaque on the house where he was born in Aachen in 1890.

His work is currently valued at around 300 paintings, more than 400 prints and over 600 watercolors. Scheuren had a preference for Rhenish topics. His album dedicated to Schloss Stolzenfels was digitized by the Rheinische Landesbibliothek in Koblenz . There are also works by Scheuren in the Nationalgalerie (Berlin) , the Neue Pinakothek in Munich and the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum , Cologne.

Caspar Scheuren is buried in the Düsseldorf North Cemetery.

Works (selection)

painting

" Moving Sea ", 1854
  • 1821 St. Theresa watercolor in miniature. 1897 Suermondt Museum
  • 1835 CH Steffens portrait, 1897 Suermondt Museum
  • 1856 The city (Aachen) from the Burtscheider Höhe marked : C.SCHREUREN FEC. DÜSSELDORF. JBSONDERLAND LITH.INST.V.ARNZ & CO. IN DUSSELDORF. Color stone impression. Drawing: about 9.3 × 13.2 cm
  • four smaller landscapes, two large landscape drawings, ibid.
  • Rheinalbum consisting of 26 watercolor sheets in a cross folio. Wallraff Richartz Museum, Cologne

Texts

Illustrations (selection)

  • The chronicle of the city of Cologne , with illustrations by Nikolaus Hocker , Max Hess , C. Scheuren, JB Sonderland . Düsseldorf 1857
  • A fisherman's life in pleasure and pain: two days in 22 pictures , by C. Scheuren. Poetry by Dr. Hermann Ellen , Gera 1859
  • Cheering calendar to commemorate the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig from 16. – 19. Oct. 1813 with illustrations based on original drawings by August Beck , C. and E. Kirchhoff and Caspar Scheuren. Weber, Leipzig 1863.
  • General German Commers book / Under musical editing by Ms. Silcher u. Ms. Erk. Edited by Hermann and Moritz Schauenburg. Lahr Schauenburg, 1867. Digitized edition
  • Watercolors from Düsseldorf artists: dedicated to women who love art. Düsseldorf Arnz, 1861. Digitized edition
  • German seals with marginal drawings by German artists. Düsseldorf Buddeus, (Volumes 1–2) 1843. Digitized edition
  • Max Schaffrath: Seals. Düsseldorf Breidenbach, 1875. Digitized edition
  • Diploma of the Association of Doctors of the District of Düsseldorf for Mr ... as ... Member: the Board / Association of Doctors. Cöln Levy-Elkan, 1846. Digitized edition
  • Invitation for ... to celebrate the flag consecration, Düsseldorf Men's Singing Association, on September 16, 1848: at the beginning of the afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Geisler restaurant . Severin, Düsseldorf 1848 Digitized edition
  • In: Women's Breviary for Home and World: A selection of the best passages from well-known writers on women's life and women's education. Leipzig Amelang, 1893 (7th edition). Digitized edition
  • Franz Grünmeijer: Prayers in the spirit of the Catholic Church. Düsseldorf Elkan, Bäumer & Co, approx. 1842. Digitized edition
  • Catharina Diez , Easter morning of a sexton , gift for the German Pestalozzi Foundation , illustrated by C. Scheuren. Etched by Triebel, von Blomberg, Scholz et al. Berlin 1847
  • Katharina Diez: Easter morning of a sexton. Berlin Diesterweg u. Kalisch, 1847. Digitized edition
  • Norwegian peasant life. A cycle in 10 pictures. By Adolph Tidemand. With an allegorical title in color print, designed by v. C. Scheuren. After the original cartons, for the paintings executed for the Royal Villa "Oskarshall" at Christiania, lithographed by v. JB special country. Düsseldorf Schulte, 1852, 2nd edition. Digitized edition
  • Fairy tales and legends for young and old. Düsseldorf Arnz: Voss, 1857, Volume 2. Digitized edition
  • Ludwig Bund (Hrsg.): Lieder der Heimath: A collection of the most excellent poems in the picture decorations of German art. Düsseldorf Breidenbach, 1868. Digitized edition
  • Friedrich Hackländer: Day and Night: A story in twenty-four hours. Stuttgart Hallberger, 1860, 2 vols. Digitized edition
  • K. Stieler, H. Wachenhusen, FW Hackländer: Rhine trip: From the sources of the Rhine to the sea. Stuttgart Kröner, 1875. Digitized edition
  • From the German Rhine: With scenic u. architectural views with illustrations of Rhenish seals, in 50 sheets. Düsseldorf Breidenbach & Baumann, 1876/1877. Digitized edition
    • From the German Rhine: With scenic u. architectural views with illustrations of Rhenish seals, in 25 sheets. Cologne Neubner, 1877. Digitized edition
    • From the German Rhine: With scenic u. architectural views with illustrations of Rhenish seals, in 25 sheets. Düsseldorf Baumann, 1879. Digitized edition
  • Elise Polko , New Fairy Tale Book, Musical Sketches and Dreams , With a colored cover picture by Caspar Scheuren, Minden 1884
  • Legend and history of the Rhine, Rhenish life of the present . Digitized edition

literature

Web links

Commons : Caspar Scheuren  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The house where he was born is at Franzstrasse 16. The plaque attached there bears the inscription: “In this house, THE PAINTER CASPAR SCHEUREN was born on August 21, 1810. Rhenish nature, legend and history live in his works. Dedicated by the Aachener Geschichtsverein in 1890. " In the journal of the Aachener Geschichtsverein it says: The most blessed Empress Augusta gave" in the long-term relationship of the Aachen artist to Her Majesty and in the honorable memory that they keep for Professor Kaspar Scheuren Pieces a contribution of 100 marks to the cost of the memorial plaque. " (Journal of the Aachener Geschichts-Verein, Vol. XI, p. 298. Fey, p. 64)
  2. ↑ No. 99 in: Mitteilungen des Rhein.Ver. for monument preservation u. Heimatschutz VII , p. 230f. Karl Faymonville III., P. 58, no.174.
  3. ↑ Niessens Museum Guide: Guide to the intellectual content of the painting collection of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne. No. 1003-1028 including information provided by the artist.
personal data
SURNAME Scheuren, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheuren, Caspar Johann Nepomuk (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1887
Place of death Dusseldorf