Curt Victor Clemens Grolig

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Curt Victor Clemens Grolig (* 1805 in Meißen ; † November 27, 1862 in Versailles ) was a German landscape and marine painter .

Life

Grolig first learned as an autodidact before exhibiting still lifes with flowers and fruits in Dresden in 1822 . From 1827 he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden and was a student of the landscape painter Johan Christian Clausen Dahl from 1828 to 1833 . 1834 to 1836 followed trips to and stays in Northern Germany, Denmark and Norway, in 1836 and 1839 participation in the exhibition of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen . In 1838 Grolig was in Munich and in 1839 with the support of King Friedrich August II of Saxony , and in 1842 in Algeria. From around 1844 Grolig became a student of Jean Raymond Hippolyte Lazerges and Benjamin Roubaud in Paris . From 1845 he was based in Versailles as a student and employee of Horace Vernet . Grolig died on November 27, 1862 in Versailles.

Works

  • Vue d'Alger, prize entre le camp de Couba et Hussayn-Dey , whereabouts unknown (Salon 1844, no. 855), possibly identical to: Ambulance établie au camp des oliviers en Algérie. 8 mars 1842, 1844, oil / canvas, 86 × 120 cm, Versailles, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, inv. No. MV 6636
  • Vue de Blidah, prize du pied de l'Atlas, à l'Est , whereabouts unknown (ibid., No. 856)
  • Naufrage de la corvette de charge “La Marne” le 25 janvier 1841 , oil / canvas, 218 × 327 cm, Amiens, Musée de Picardie, inv. No. INV 5052 (Salon 1845, No. 766), possibly identical to: Scène de naufrage, côte d'Afrique, aux environs de Philippeville, whereabouts unknown (cat. Lille 1993, p. 86)

literature

  • Sylva van der Heyden: Grolig, Curt (Curtius) Victor Clemens. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015.

Web links

Commons : Curt Victor Clemens Grolig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Versailles, Archives départementales et patrimoine mobilier, Yvelines, Death Register, 1862, No. 1001, Curt Victor Clement Grolig; http://archives.yvelines.fr/ark:/36937/s0053ceb4b35fc10/53ceb4b4784c5
personal data
SURNAME Grolig, Curt Victor Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1862
Place of death Versailles