Franz Everhard Bourel

Franz Everhard Bourel: Ash Wednesday . Oil on canvas, 64 × 75.5 cm

Franz Everhard Bourel , also Eberhard Bourel (* 1803 in Cologne , † March 13, 1871 ibid) was a German genre and portrait painter .

life and work

Franz Everhard Bourel was the son of the bailiff Rudolph Joseph Benedict Bourel and Maria Anna Bourel nee. Neukirchen. He came from a long-established Cologne family. One of his ancestors was the city police director. Bourel studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy before becoming professor of drawing at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in his hometown in 1834 . There he was the teacher of Erich Correns and Wilhelm Leibl . In 1840 he founded a drawing and painting school on Wallrafplatz in Cologne . Bourel was active as a painter and lithographer . In addition to portraits, the titles of his mostly small-format works also outline his range of motifs: Family Life of a Cologne City Soldier (1839), The Fruit Trader (1840, probably painted for an exhibition in Gürzenich in Cologne ), Ash Wednesday (1839, also probably for Gürzenich), A Conversation Piece ( 1844), The wanted poster (1848). In 1823 he lithographed a portrait of his Cologne teacher Johann Christian Kuntze, who had died shortly before. Bourel's work was repeatedly exhibited at the Kölnischer Kunstverein during his lifetime .

literature

Johann Jakob Merlo: News of the life and works of Cologne artists. Commissions-Verlag by JM Heberle (H. Lempertz), Cologne 1850, p. 54.
Johann Andreas Romberg, Friedrich Faber, Lorenz Clasen: Conversations-Lexicon for Fine Arts , Volume 2., Renger, 1846, p. 244 (available from Google Books)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court district Cologne, registry office Cologne, deaths, 1871, document no. 1129.

Web links

Portrait of Everhard Bourel , lithograph by Erich Correns , in the Cologne City Museum

personal data
SURNAME	Bourel, Franz Everhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bourel, Eberhard; Bourel, Everhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1803
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	March 13, 1871
Place of death	Cologne

[Sterbeurkunde-1] A ^b Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, regional court district Cologne, registry office Cologne, deaths, 1871, document no. 1129.