Ernst Welker
Ernst Welker (born May 1, 1788 in Gotha , † September 30, 1857 in Vienna ) was an Austrian landscape and architecture painter and copperplate engraver.
Life
Welker was the son of the secret archivist Philipp Friedrich Welker from Gotha.
He was initially a student at the Weimar Free Drawing Institute under the engraver Johann Christian Ernst Müller (1766-1824). He then studied from 1804 to 1808 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . As a volunteer Lützow hunter he took part in the wars of liberation and was an eyewitness to the death of Theodor Körner (1791-1813).
With his friends Johann Christoph Erhard (1795–1822), Johann Adam Klein (1792–1875) and the brothers Friedrich Philipp Reinhold (1779–1840) and Heinrich Reinhold (1788–1825) he undertook a study trip through the Salzkammergut in 1818.
In 1817 he went on the next study trip with Heinrich Philipp Reinhold and Johann Christian Erhard to Lower Austria, to the Schneeberg area and to Höllenberg. In 1818 and 1819 he worked as a drawing teacher and caricaturist at the palace of the Duchess Dorothea von Kurland " Musenhof Löbichau ".
He spent the period from 1821 to 1828 in Rome, after which he settled in Vienna. In 1837 he visited the countries of the Middle East.
Welker created landscapes and architectural views from the area around Vienna, from Salzburg, from Styria, Carinthia, Switzerland and Italy. He was a full member of the Association for the Advancement of Fine Arts in Vienna.
gallery
Duke of Gotha
Duchess of Courland
Ernst Welker self-portrait
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Welker, Ernst . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 54th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1886, pp. 223–225 ( digitized version ).
- Welker, Ernst . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942.
- Klaus Hofmann (Ed.): Salongeschichten: Paris - Löbichau - Vienna. Guests in the salon of the Duchess of Courland in the portrait of the painter Ernst Welker. Museum Burg Posterstein, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86104-094-1 .
Web links
- Ernst_Welker in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ZVAB
- Musenhof Löbichau
- Memory of the country
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Welker, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian landscape and architecture painter and copperplate engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1788 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gotha |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 30, 1857 |
| Place of death | Vienna |