Eduard Caspar Post

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Eduard Caspar Post (born March 15, 1827 in Hagen ; † October 21, 1882 there ) was a German landscape and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Post was born as the twin of Christian (Carl?) Post and his wife Clementine, née Hilbeck (1805–1879), in Hagen. On April 11, 1827, he was baptized as a Protestant. His twin sister was Mathilde Post (1827-1883), who married the court director Carl Detzner. On May 2, 1833, his mother married Friedrich Elbers (1800–1860) and gave birth to the children Friedrich (* 1834), Pauline (1835–1911) and Gustav Adolf Friedrich (* 1838). Post studied in 1859/60 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in Rudolf Wiegmann's class . He had previously been in the United States of America . He toured Germany, the Netherlands (Scheveningen, 1866) and Italy and worked in Düsseldorf and was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . From 1861 to 1880 he was represented in various art exhibitions (Cologne, Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Bremen).

Works (selection)

Landscape with a torrent
  • Wide landscape with a shepherd and his flock , 1863
  • The Königssee , 1864
  • Italian coastal landscape with a fishing family on the beach , 1865
  • Lake in the foothills of the Alps
  • Landscape with a torrent
  • Fishermen on the Gulf of Naples
  • Noon rest, motif from the Harz Mountains
  • Hikers in a summer landscape
  • In the atelier of the painter prince
  • Large still life variety

literature

  • Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century . II / 1, Dresden 1898, p. 304 ( digitized version )
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , p. 106.

Web links

Commons : Eduard Caspar Post  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Caspar Post , website in the familysearch.org portal , accessed on January 1, 2016
  2. ^ Mathilde Post , website in the gedbas.genealogy.net portal , accessed on January 1, 2016
  3. ^ Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, status: November 2016): Post, Eduard (Edward); studied at the art academy with Rudolf Wiegmann in 1859/60. Was in the United States before 1859. (PDF) , from smkp.de, accessed on February 20, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Post, Eduard Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Post, Edward Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1882
Place of death Hagen