Christian Leberecht Vogel
Christian Leberecht Vogel (born April 4, 1759 in Dresden , Electorate of Saxony , † April 11, 1816 in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony ) was a German painter, draftsman and art theorist.
Life
The son of a court saddler from the Electorate of Saxony attracted attention very early on with his artistic talent. The “child prodigy” was already taught at the age of nine by the painter Johann Eleazar Zeissig , known as Schenau (1737–1806), at the Dresden Art Academy , where he soon received a training grant because of his outstanding achievements.
In 1780 his training at the academy was completed and he came to Wildenfels through his connections as a Freemason . There he was supposed to work both as a court painter and as a tutor for the children of Count Magnus I. zu Solms-Wildenfels. Book illustrations in the Masonic sense also come from this time.
His duties included, in addition to family portraits to document to make two rooms with large ceiling paintings and a variety of rooms with overdoors to enrich. He even worked as an architect; a hunting lodge was built according to his Masonic design ideas.
In 1785 in Wildenfels he married Wilhelmine Lüdecke, the chambermaid. From this marriage comes his first son Carl Christian Vogel , who in 1831 was ennobled as a Saxon court painter and professor at the Academy with the addition of Vogelstein.
Vogel's sphere of activity was not limited to Wildenfels, he also worked a lot for the counts in the neighborhood, especially for those of Schönburg and von Einsiedel . In the meantime he had excelled in his special field, the child portrait, and made a name for himself with his soulful, witty depictions.
In 1804 he went back to Dresden to take up teaching at the academy. In 1814 he got a job as a full professor. Not far from today's Hotel Bellevue , a garden house was built for Vogel from 1811 to 1814 according to plans by Christian Friedrich Schuricht , the so-called Vogelsche garden house . Vogel died in Dresden in 1816. His grave is in the Trinity Cemetery in Dresden.
Today one still appreciates the humanistic message of his perception of man, shaped by sensitivity, in Vogel's pictures, which he sensibly traced in various techniques in order to give it a sensitive, sensualistic expression with color and shape. The Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden owns his paintings Child with Doll and The Master's Sons .
Publications
- Ideas about the doctrine of beauty with regard to visible objects in general and fine arts in particular. Dresden 1812.
- Reflections on the form and local conditions of the lightness and darkness of the surrounding matter of the comets ... Dresden 1812.
- Ideas for the theory of colors (handwritten draft), printed in: Hermann Vogel von Vogelstein, The theory of colors of Christian Leberecht Vogel. Dissertation Greifswald 1998.
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Vogel, Christian Lebrecht . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 97.
- Vogel, Christian Leberecht . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 477 .
- Gerd-Helge Vogel : Art and culture around 1800 in the Zwickauer Muldenland. Zwickau 1996.
- Gerd-Helge Vogel: Christian Leberecht Vogel. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1988 (series: painter and work), ISBN 978-3-364-00131-9 .
- Gerd-Helge Vogel: Alchemy of luck - Christian Leberecht Vogel as ceiling painter and book illustrator and his connection to Freemasonry. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter. 4/2005, pp. 324-348.
- Gerd-Helge Vogel: Hermann Vogel von Vogelstein; Christian Leberecht Vogel, artist monograph. Leipzig 2006.
- Gerd-Helge Vogel: Christian Leberecht Vogel (1759-1816). A Saxon painter from the age of sensitivity. In: Gerd-Helge Vogel, Hermann Vogel von Vogelstein: Christian Leberecht Vogel. Gutenberg Verlag, Leipzig 2006.
- Gerd-Helge Vogel: Christian Leberecht Vogel - life and work. In: Art collections of the Zwickau Municipal Museums. State palaces, castles and gardens of Saxony / Palaces and gardens Dresden / Pillnitz Palace (Ed.): Christian Leberecht Vogel. A Saxon master of sensitivity. For the 250th birthday. Zwickau, Dresden 2009.
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian Leberecht Vogel in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vogel, Christian Leberecht |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1759 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden , Electorate of Saxony |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1816 |
| Place of death | Dresden , Kingdom of Saxony |