Ernst Oskar Simonson-Castelli

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Ernst Oskar Simonson-Castelli (born November 20, 1864 in Dresden ; † September 27, 1929 there ) was a German painter .

Life

Ernst Oskar Simonson was the son of the painter David Simonson and his wife, a née Castelli. He studied at the Dresden Art Academy under Ferdinand Pauwels . In 1890 he went to Munich, where he became a student of his brother-in-law Gotthardt Kuehl . In 1892 he continued his studies at the Académie Julian in Paris as a student of Jules Duprés . He went on numerous study trips that made him a. a. led to France (Normandy), Holland, Northern Germany, England and Italy. He then settled in his hometown in 1893 as a freelance painter. From 1898 he called himself Simonson-Castelli after the surnames of both parents . Simonson received the Silver Medal from the Dresden Art Academy in 1890 and the Prize Medal from the International Art Exhibition in Lyon in 1894.

After the death of his father, from 1896 he continued to run his private painting school, which was founded around 1860, the "Academy for Drawing, Painting and Modeling". Woldemar Winkler also worked at this academy from 1927, and Kate Diehn-Bitt was one of his students . In 1899 Simonson-Castelli received the title of professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino .

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