Dominik Mosler

Dominik Mosler , also Domenicus Mosler or Dominikus Mosler (born November 19, 1822 in Düsseldorf , † November 13, 1880 in Münster , Westphalia province ), was a German history and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

The young Mother of God on the canopy

Mosler, eldest son of the painter and art historian Karl Josef Ignatz Mosler and older brother of the history painter Heinrich Mosler , grew up in Düsseldorf and studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1838 to 1843 , where his father taught art history. There were Rudolf Wiegmann , Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Wilhelm Schadow his teachers. In 1844 he became a student of Jakob Becker and later of Edward von Steinle at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main . Study trips took him to Munich and Paris . He then moved back to Düsseldorf, but then settled in Münster. Mosler specialized in the field of religious history painting. From 1858 to 1860 he worked for Steinle in his painting of the Münster Aegidi Church .

literature

• Mosler, Dominik . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 185 .
• Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf , Hans Paffrath (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . Volume 2: Haach - Murtfeldt . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 978-38-3070-158-3 , p. 408 f.

Web links

Commons : Dominik Mosler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mosler, Dominik , biography in the portal malerei19jh.museum-kassel.de ( Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
2. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )