Christian Sell

Defense of the castle

4th Westphalian Infantry Regiment No. 17 (probably scene from the Battle of Le Mans )

Christian Sell (born August 14, 1831 in Altona , † April 21, 1883 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Sell was first taught by his father to paint and lived in Düsseldorf from 1851, where he attended the academy until 1856 and joined Theodor Hildebrandt and Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow . He went on study trips through Germany and Belgium and initially painted historical war scenes from the Thirty Years' War such as the defense of a city wall (1852), soldiers carrying their wounded leader , calm after a repulsed storm (1856), the siege of Breisach (1861) and Imperial soldiers invaded by Sweden .

In 1864 and 1866 Sell accompanied the Prussian troops on their successful campaigns to Denmark ( German-Danish War ) and Bohemia ( German War ). In 1870/71 he also went to the Franco-German War . Participation in these military conflicts gave his work a different direction. From then on he portrayed larger battles and smaller episodes from these three wars, which are outstanding due to the liveliness of the description and the delicacy of the execution. He also emerged as a painter of watercolors and illustrations. His main works are:

Storming the Düppeler Schanze 6
Battle of Königgrätz (painting from 1872)
The beginning of the persecution at Königgrätz (Berlin National Gallery)
Battle near Liebenau , 1866

gallery

On the battlefield near Düppel, 1864
Battle of Königgrätz
Before Metz - in the rain and without humor , illustration from the gazebo , 1871
The humor before Metz , 1871
Hussars of the 11th Corps in double rain near Sedan , 1872

Illustrated works

1870 and 1871. Two years of German heroism / by Gustav Höcker. With 114 illustrations based on original drawings by W. Camphausen, C. Horn, Chr. Sell a. A. and 12 maps and plans . - Glogau: Flemming. - 1872. - [1] p., IV, 392 p., [6] p.: Numerous Ill., Kt. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

Museum reception

The collections of the following museums contain works by Christian Sell:

literature

Max Georg Zimmermann: Sell, Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 680.
Christian Sell . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 218 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Sell, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 14, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH	Altona
DATE OF DEATH	April 21, 1883
Place of death	Dusseldorf