Ernst Koerner
Ernst Karl Eugen Koerner (born November 3, 1846 in Stibbe in the Deutsch-Krone district ( Marienwerder district ), † July 30, 1927 in Berlin ) was a German landscape painter .
Life
Ernst Koerner attended a Berlin grammar school and, in 1861, Hermann Eschke's studio , to whom he owes his main training. Later he also worked for Karl Steffeck and Gottlieb Biermann . Then he made study trips to the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas , the Harz Mountains , northern France (1868), Italy , England and Scotland (1872) and, with even greater success, to Egypt and the whole of the Orient (1873 and 1874). In 1878, 1886 and 1905 he was again in Egypt, in 1882 in Spain .
In 1894 he became a professor and from 1895 to 1899 chairman of the Berlin Artists' Association . Koerner also made pictures of churches, e.g. B. for the altar of the Erlöserkirche in Berlin-Rummelsburg .
Ernst Koerner had a daughter and three sons: the lawyer Bernhard Koerner , Otto Koerner (1880–1940), later Senate Councilor at the Imperial Patent Office, and the manor owner Ludwig Koerner von Gustorf (1888–1974).
Ernst Koerner died in Berlin in 1927 at the age of 80. His grave is in the Luisenstadt cemetery in Berlin-Kreuzberg .
Works (selection)
Koerner was best known for his pictures of Egypt, on which he used to depict ancient Egyptian architecture , sometimes associated with blood-red sunsets. His painting was influenced by Eduard Hildebrandt .
- The Goldne Horn (1873, formerly owned by Emperor Friedrich III. )
- Suez (1874, former museum in Stettin)
- Mahmudieh Canal (1885)
- Baalbek in Lebanon
- Lake in front of Alexandria
- Colossi of Memnon at sunset (1879)
- Siut in Upper Egypt in the sunset
- Excavation of the Sphinx , 1887
- Karnak Temple
- Pyramids at Memphis
- Giza pyramids in morning mood
- Acropolis in Athens
- Court in Seville
literature
- Koerner, Ernst Karl Eugen. 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, pp. 745-746 ( archive.org ).
- Koerner, Ernst . 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. 181 .
- Alfred Rosenberg: Ernst Koerner. In: Berliner Architekturwelt. 1, 1899, pp. 14-17, 23-24 ( opus.kobv.de PDF; 23.59 MB).
- Andreas Koerner: Ernst Koerner (1846–1927). A Berlin painter. In: The Bear of Berlin. Volume 53 (2004), pp. 75-94 ISSN 0522-0033 .
- Wolfgang Kosack : Ernst Koerner, a Berlin Orient painter of the 19th century. With catalog raisonné and list of subjects of his paintings. Verlag Christoph Brunner, Basel, ISBN 978-3-906206-19-6 .
- Alfried Nehring: Hermann Eschke - Cliffs and Coasts - A veteran of Berlin painting in the 19th century. Klatschmohnverlag, Bentwisch / Rostock 2012, ISBN 978-3-941064-32-4 , pp. 36–37.
- Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon of the Present. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1882.
- Ernst Koerner . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 155 .
- Florian Hufnagl : Koerner, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 379 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs. Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 80.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koerner, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koerner, Ernst Karl Eugen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stibbe (today: Malbork, Poland) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 1927 |
| Place of death | Berlin |