Christian Wilberg
Christian Wilberg (born November 20, 1839 in Havelberg , † June 3, 1882 in Paris ) was a German painter .
Life
Wilberg worked as a room painter in his hometown until 1861, then visited the studio of the landscape painter Eduard Pape in Berlin , after a year and a half that of the decorative painter Paul Gropius , also in Berlin, where he devoted himself to the study of perspective and architecture . In 1870 he moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy to deepen landscape painting in Oswald Achenbach's class . On study trips to northern Germany and a two-year stay in Italy, he continued his education as an architecture and landscape painter.
Then he settled in Berlin. He soon made a name for himself there through a series of interior views of Italian churches ( St. Mark's Basilica in Venice , Cappella Palatina in Palermo). In the rendering of the architectural details, the marble, the stones and the gold mosaics, he developed a great mastery of color, which was also reflected in the effective lighting. Among his landscapes and architectural views are the most outstanding: Roman landscape with the Egeria cave , seclusion in the park , Roman Forum , Temple of Juno near Girgenti in Sicily , view of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice , Memento mori based on a motif from the Sabine Mountains (in the Dresdener Galerie ) and Villa Mondragone at Frascati (in the Nationalgalerie Berlin ). In 1879 he took part in a two-month stay of the archaeologist Alexander Conze in Pergamon , from which Wilberg brought, in addition to numerous studies, the motifs for the paintings View of the Acropolis and View of the Basilica at Pergamon . He had a particular skill for the painterly reproduction of ancient architectural monuments and city districts. The cycle of Roman landscapes with architecture, which he created for Café Bauer zu Berlin, is an example of this . Also finely tuned, poetically interpreted watercolors with views of Potsdam and the surrounding area are by his hand. He died on June 3, 1882 while traveling in Paris .
Wilberg found his final resting place in Berlin on the old Matthäikirchhof , the tomb was created by the sculptor Gustav Eberlein .
Excavations on the Byzantine wall ; Pencil drawing, heightened with white; 29.8 x 46.7 cm; Caption: “Byzantine Wall. 5-6 meters wide. The first pieces of the reliefs were found here. Pergamon 79 "
Excavation site of the Pergamon Altar ; Pencil drawing, heightened with white; 29.9 x 46.6 cm; Caption: “View of the macaw shortly before the excavation there. Pergamon 79 (May) "
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literature
- Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 558 ( digitized version )
- Wilberg, Christian . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume 2, p. 1015.
- Hermann Arthur Lier: Wilberg, Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, p. 472 f.
Web links
- Christian Wilberg , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Individual evidence
- ^ 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
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilberg, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Havelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 3, 1882 |
| Place of death | Paris |