Eduard Marcuse

Eduard Marcuse , also Eduard Marcus (* around 1810 in Berlin (uncertain), † after 1850), was a German portrait , genre and history painter .

Life

The painter Marcuse, who was probably born in Berlin, is difficult to grasp biographically. Different spellings of his surname and changing first names only suggest that the different mentions of the artist are about the same person.

The son of a businessman studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin from 1827 to 1829 and from 1834 to 1837 at the Royal Prussian Art Academy in Düsseldorf . At the Düsseldorf Academy he attended the building class of the architect Karl Friedrich Schäffer and was trained in painting by Karl Ferdinand Sohn . Around 1834 he stayed in Paris . In 1837/38 he made several portraits in Düsseldorf . As the painter Carl Steffeck reported to his friend Felix Schadow , Marcuse stayed again in Paris in 1839 and 1840, in Paul Delaroche's studio . Between 1846 and 1850 he took part in the Berlin Academy Exhibition. When Felix Schadow discovered Marcuse's historical picture of the death of King Saul and three of his sons at the Berlin Academy Exhibition in 1846 , he recognized the painting as “corresponding to the French school” and found “a thorough academic study visible” in this work.

literature

• Lisa Hackmann: Marcuse, E. (Markuse, Markus; Markus, Julius) , in: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Pariser apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 193–194 ( Google Books ).

Individual evidence

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