Emil Köhler (painter)

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Julius Emil Köhler , called Koszinskow (* around 1815; † August 31, 1876 in Blasewitz ), was a German portrait and genre painter and lithographer .

Life

Köhler was a son of the "secretary" in the Saxon war ministry and later war councilor Johann Julius Köhler († April 10, 1868). In 1840 he appeared as a student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Theodor Hildebrandt . From 1842 he worked in Dresden . He was represented at art exhibitions in Leipzig , Dresden and Berlin . In 1875 he received an honorary gift of 300 marks from the Tiedge Foundation, dedicated to the memory of the poet Christoph August Tiedge .

Emil Köhler lived in the Dresden district of Plauen and was buried in the nearby Alten Annenfriedhof on Chemnitzer Straße.

Works (selection)

  • 1841: The surprise and the girl, meditative Fischer Art Exhibition Leipzig.
  • 1842: The unsuccessful Marktfuhre (a farmer's boy who is run over by the dogs of his loaded cart chasing a cat) Art exhibition in Dresden and Berlin
  • approx. 1850: The Wilsdruffer Thor before the demolition in 1811 (colored chalk lithograph ) and other views of the city

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Individual evidence

  1. Cf. nos. 7674/7675 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
  2. ^ Art paper. 1843, p. 82 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
  3. Köhler, Emil. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 725 ( archive.org ).