Charles Feodor Welsch

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Charles Feodor Welsch , also Karl Theodor Welsch , birth name Karl Friedrich Christian Welsch (born February 18, 1828 in Wesel , † May 6, 1904 in Dresden ), was a German landscape painter and illustrator .

Life

Welsch received his first artistic training - as did his younger brother Julius Maria Jakob Welsch (1832–1899), who later became a decorative painter - from his father, the painter and restorer Johann Friedrich Welsch . In 1846 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he attended the landscape class of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer . He then went to Brussels, The Hague and Paris, where he studied with Félix Ziem and Alexandre Calame . He then went to North America for eight years and then returned to Europe to live in Rome from 1866. During this time, John Singer Sargent was one of his students . Welsch left Rome in 1879. He traveled to Egypt and also stayed for a long time in Venice, Paris, Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden, Frankfurt am Main and Dresden. He died in Dresden in 1904.

Work and meaning

Old Cairo , book illustration, 1878

Welsch illustrated books, including two luxury volumes on Egypt by Georg Ebers and a magnificent edition of Goethe's works for the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt in Stuttgart. In 1871 and 1873 he exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts . He signed some of his works with FC Welsch .

Its importance in the history of art derives mainly from the fact that between (presumably) 1869 to 1871 he taught John Singer Sargent, who was thirteen at the beginning. Sargent's parents lived as US emigrants in continental Europe. Their modest income and unsteady life, where they changed homes every few months, meant that Sargent and his sisters received little formal schooling. From 1869 they stayed in Rome for several years during the winter half-year, where Sargent then became Welsch's pupil. Sargent's biographer Stanley Olson states, however, that Welsch is a biographer's nightmare because little has been documented about his life and the connection between Welsch and Sargent is partly based on family tradition, mainly through John Singer Sargent's younger sister Emily. It is also possible that Welsch Sargent only taught during the family's stay in Florence. Sargent's father, FitzWilliam Sargent, only speaks of a Germanico-American artist of reputation in his letters - a German-American artist of importance . John Sargent Singer later stated that his lessons mainly consisted of Welsch making his studio available. He spent a lot of time fetching beer and wine from nearby shops for Welsch. Only in the morning hours would he have faithfully redrawn his master's watercolors. What is certain, however, is that Welsch and Sargent undertook a joint hiking tour through Tyrol in the summer of 1871.

literature

Web links

Commons : Welsch, FC  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145.
  2. ↑ Cf. No. 15632, entry Welsch, Carl in the Findbuch 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( State Archive North Rhine-Westphalia )
  3. ^ A b Stanley Olson: John Singer Sargent - His Portrait. MacMillan, London 1986, ISBN 0-333-29167-0 . P. 22.
  4. ↑ Friedrich Noack : Da Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 635
  5. ^ Welsch, FC In: Algernon Graves: The Royal Academy of Arts. A complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. Henry Graves, London, Volume 8, 1906, p. 211 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  6. ^ Stanley Olson: John Singer Sargent - His Portrait. MacMillan, London 1986, ISBN 0-333-29167-0 . P. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Welsch, Charles Feodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Welsch, Karl Friedrich Christian (birth name); Welsch, Karl Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1904
Place of death Dresden