Erich Correns (painter)

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Erich Correns: Helene von Thurn and Taxis , 1859; Oil on canvas

Erich Correns (born March 3, 1821 in Cologne , † June 14, 1877 in Munich ) was a German genre and portrait painter .

life and work

Erich Correns studied at the request of his father, the appellate judge Karl Theodor Correns (born April 26, 1776, † February 24, 1843), initially law in Bonn , Munich, Heidelberg and Cologne. Encouraged by the support of his drawing teacher at the grammar school, the painter Franz Everhard Bourel , who had taught him drawing and lithography , he began to make portraits and group pictures of his fellow students as a student. He acquired a reputation as a portrait painter through portraits of well-known citizens, such as Friedrich Everhard von Mering or Franz Raveaux .

In Munich Correns made connections with scholars and artist colleagues, including the painters Karl Schorn , August Löffler , Anselm Feuerbach and the brothers Carl Theodor and Ferdinand von Piloty as well as the philologist Friedrich Wilhelm Thiersch ; he began to paint in oil and soon gained a reputation for himself through commissions from aristocratic and bourgeois Munich society, which made him one of the most sought-after portraitists and society painters in the 1850s and 1860s. In an effort to evade the reputation of the fashion painter, Erich Correns increasingly created genre and landscape paintings and also devoted himself to religious subjects.

In addition to Franz Reiff , his students also included Wilhelm Marc , J. Wölfle and Franz Maria Ingenmey , who reproduced several of his portraits in color prints.

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SURNAME Correns, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1877
Place of death Munich