Edmund Koken
Johann Gottfried Edmund Koken (born June 4, 1814 in Hanover ; † October 30, 1872 there ) was an important German landscape and portrait painter .
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Life and career
Edmund Koken was the father of the painter Karl Wilhelm Julius Paul Koken , uncle of the painter Gustav Heinrich Julius Koken , whose daughter Änne Koken was and the great-grandson of Friedrich Hans Koken .
After Koken had attended the court school in Hanover and there also the higher trade school, he went to Munich to study at the academy there in 1837 . There he made friends with August von Kreling and came into contact with Peter von Cornelius , Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Kaulbach and especially Carl Rottmann .
From 1841 Koken stayed in Hanover again to undertake a study trip to Italy in 1845 , during which he became friends with Oswald Achenbach . On October 26, 1851, he married the daughter of a Hanover government councilor, Wilhelmine Louise Mejer.
In 1842 he was a founding member of the Hanover Art Association . In 1846 Koken published its members in a two-volume compilation.
He was friends with Conrad Wilhelm Hase , Ernst von Bandel , Julius Giere , Heinrich Friedrich Brehmer . The latter also created the bronze medallion for Koken's honorary grave at the Engesohde city cemetery .
Student coking
Among the students of Koken were, besides his son Paul and nephew Gustav:
- Crown Prince Ernst August of Hanover
- Karl Eckermann, son of the Goethe Secretary Johann Peter Eckermann
- Landscape painter Gustav Hausmann
Honors
- According to the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover, the painter was awarded the Golden Medal of Honor for Art and Science for 1866 .
- Honorary grave with a bronze medallion by Heinrich Friedrich Bremer in the Engesohde city cemetery
Works (excerpt)
- Koken published portraits of the members of the Hannoversche Künstlerverein in a two-volume anthology.
- Further works can be found in the state gallery of the Lower Saxony State Museum
literature
- Johannes Heinrich Müller: Koken, Edmund . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 455.
- Koken, Edmund . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 213-214 .
- Wilhelm Rothert (Ed.): Hannoversche Biographie. Volume 1: Hanoverian men and women since 1866. Hanover 1912, p. 351.
- Dirck Töllner: Edmund Koken (1814 -1872) In: Karin Umbach, Ulrike Weiß (Red.): Of longing and success of a family of painters. Edmund, Gustav and Paul Koken. Exhibition catalog (= writings of the Historisches Museum Hannover. Volume 23). 2004, pp. 38-71 et al.
- Hugo Thielen : Koken, Johann Edmund Gottfried. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 207 (reading sample, books.google.de ).
- Hugo Thielen: Koken, (4) Johann Gottfried Edmund. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 362 (reading sample, books.google.de ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hugo Thielen: Koken, (1) Aenne. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 362 (excerpt, books.google.de ).
- ↑ Johannes Heinrich Müller: Koken, Edmund . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 455.
- ^ Franz Rudolf Zankl : Medal of Honor for Art and Science. In: Hanover Archive . Sheet K 34.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koken, Edmund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koken, Johann Gottfried Edmund (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 1872 |
| Place of death | Hanover |