Conrad Beckmann (painter)

Conrad Beckmann (also: Konrad Beckmann ; born June 21, 1846 in Hanover ; † January 3, 1902 in Munich ) was a German genre painter , draftsman and illustrator .

Life

Konrad Beckmann was born in the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover as the son of a printer who worked there. He completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter and then studied painting in Hanover with Friedrich Wilhelm l'Allemand and August Klemme (1830–1878) and architecture with Conrad Wilhelm Hase . He then worked in the Willingshausen colony . From 1868 to 1871 he studied with Karl von Piloty in Munich .

Conrad Beckmann:
The uncle as bride's guide in
the garden gazebo , Leipzig 1893

Beckmann worked for Die Fliegende Blätter , Münchener Bilderbogen and Die Gartenlaube . In 1863 he painted the Villa Solms in Hanover. In 1875 Beckmann became known through the Hanoverian rifle king . In 1878 he published a cycle of drawings of Fritz Reuter's figures and illustrated Dickens ' Das Heimchen am Herd . Some of the wall paintings in Wernigerode Castle from 1883 are by Beckmann. In 1884 the picture book Fritz Reuter-Gallerie appeared with texts by Karl Theodor Gaedertz .

Beckmann, Konrad . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 155–156 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Bruno Jahn (edit.): The German-language press. A biographical-bibliographical handbook. Vol. 1, A – LKG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11710-8 , p. 71.
Hans-Michael Körner: Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia , Munich 2006, p. 131
Karin Sagner: Beckmann, Konrad . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 .

Commons : Conrad Beckmann - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Conrad Beckmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Conrad Beckmann in the German Digital Library
Illustrations in the Flying Leaves by Conrad Beckmann at heidICON.ub.uni-heidelberg
Conrad Beckmann: Entry at glass-portal.privat

↑ n.v . : Beckmann, Conrad in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library [undated], last accessed on January 14, 2020
↑ ^a ^b Wilhelm Rothert : Beckmann, Krd., KstMlr. In: ders .: General Hannoversche Biographie , Volume 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1912, p. 331

personal data
SURNAME	Beckmann, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Beckmann, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, draftsman and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	June 21, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	January 3, 1902
Place of death	Munich