Franz Ludwig Catel

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Franz Ludwig Catel in Rome on July 1, 1813; Drawing by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein
Catel 1820 (drawing by Johann Adam Klein )
Gulf of Naples with fruit dealers , Franz Ludwig Catel, 1822

Franz Ludwig Catel (born February 22, 1778 in Berlin , † December 19, 1856 in Rome ) was a German wood sculptor and painter .

Basilica Santa Maria del Popolo (Rome): grave of Franz Ludwig Catel

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Franz Ludwig Catel was the son of the Huguenot Pierre Frédéric Catel (1747–1791) and his wife Elisabeth Wilhelmine, née Rousset (1757–1809), was born. His father was an assessor at the French court in Berlin. He had a brother, the architect and painter Ludwig Friedrich Catel (1776-1819), and a sister, Francoise Henriette Catel (born February 28, 1781 in Berlin, † July 18, 1781 in Berlin).

Franz Ludwig Catel was originally a wood sculptor , then devoted himself to painting. He successfully illustrated books, including his Hermann and Dorothea after personal acquaintance with Goethe on the trip to Paris in 1797 . On November 23, 1806 he was elected a full member of the Berlin Academy . From this time on he painted in oil. His travels, on which his brother Ludwig Friedrich Catel accompanied him, took him to Paris in 1811, where Franz Ludwig Catel stayed for a while and acquired French technology, and to Switzerland. The magnificence of the alpine nature impressed him so much that he devoted himself to landscape painting and settled in Rome in 1811. There he joined the circle of artists around Joseph Anton Koch , the central figure among German painters in Rome. He only visited Germany occasionally. In 1830 he settled on his estate near Macerata in the Ancona region. Through his art he achieved considerable prosperity, so that he was able to set up a foundation for young artists in Rome from his private fortune, which still exists as Pio Istituto Catel and which also became the sole heir of the childless couple. In 1840 he made a long trip through France, England, the Netherlands and Germany. In 1841 the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts awarded him the title of professor.

He painted historical, genre and especially landscape pictures, to which he owes his reputation. He carefully kept the perspective effect in mind and endeavored to faithfully reproduce the sunny shine of the Italian regions and the lighting effects in general. His landscapes follow the stylistic direction. The lines and shapes are emphasized more sharply than the color, which suffers from dryness and hardness. Franz Ludwig Catel can be assigned to the group of stylists around Joseph Anton Koch in landscape painting, but he was also on friendly terms with Friedrich Overbeck and the Nazarenes , to whom he kept his distance artistically.

His grave with the funeral monument of Julius Troschel is in the Roman church of Santa Maria del Popolo .

Works (incomplete)

  • 30 pictures of Horace's works. Gest. under d. Leitg v. Carl Ludwig Frommel after drawing by v. Catel, Frommel etc. art publisher. Carlsruhe around 1830. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Walk in Palermo , before 1846, oil on canvas, 133 cm × 220 cm, October 2011 auction at Dorotheum , Vienna
  • Crown Prince Ludwig in the Spanish tavern in Rome , 1824, (In 1825 Ludwig succeeded Maximilian I Joseph as King of Bavaria.)
  • The Wild Church in Appenzell with a procession , 1798, gray pen and watercolor, 32.5 × 48.5 cm.
  • Sleeping boy , oil on cardboard, 31 cm × 48.3 cm, Ketterer, Stuttgart, November 2014.

  • Pen in gray, watercolor, 32.5 cm × 48.5 cm

Honors

In 2016, the city of Rome had a plaque installed on the house in which Catel had lived for many years ( Piazza di Spagna 9) in memory of the city's “benefattore” (benefactor).

gallery

  • Illustration to Goethe's "Hermann and Dorothea"

  • Illustration to Goethe's "Hermann and Dorothea"

  • View from Ariccia towards the sea

  • “Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna's walk in Palermo”, before 1846, Dorotheum auction

  • Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria with his friends in the Spanish tavern in Rome, 1823

literature

  • Robert Dohme :  Franz Ludwig Catel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 70 f.
  • Friedrich Noack : Catel, Franz Ludwig . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 180–181 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Frauke Josenhans: Catel, Franz Ludwig. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843. De Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 43-46.
  • Andreas Stolzenburg: Franz Ludwig Catel ei suoi amici a Roma. In: Journal for Art History. Volume 1, 1997, ISSN  1432-9506 , pp. 192-193.
  • Andreas Stolzenburg: The landscape and genre painter Franz Ludwig Catel (1778-1856). Working group of independent cultural institutes, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-930370-13-9 .
  • Michael Teichmann: Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria in the Spanish wine tavern on Ripagrande in Rome in the company of artists and his travel companions. tuduv-Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-88073-436-4 ( writings from the Institute for Art History of the University of Munich. Volume 58).
  • Gennaro Toscano: May 1812: Aubin-Louis Millin et Franz Ludwig Catel à Paestum. In: Album amicorum. Oeuvres choisies pour Arnaud brejon de Lavergnée . Paris 2012, p. 182 f.
  • Irmgard Wirth :  Catel, Franz Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 175 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Voyages et conscience patrimoniale. Aubin Louis-Millin (1759-1818) entre France et Italie . Files of the colloquium under the direction of Anna Maria D'Achille, Antonio Iacobini, Monica Preti-Hamard, Marina Righetti and Gennaro Toscano in Paris and Rome 2008. Campisano Editore, Rome 2012, ISBN 978-88-88168-72-2 ( table of contents as PDF )
  • Andreas Stolzenburg, Hubertus Gaßner (ed.): Franz Ludwig Catel (1778-1856): Italian images of the romantic. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7319-0257-7 .

Web links

Commons : Franz Ludwig Catel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences: Berlin Classics (PDF).
  2. ↑ Frauke Josenhans: Catel, Franz Ludwig. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843. De Gruyter, Berlin 2013, p. 43.
  3. ↑ Frauke Josenhans: Catel, Franz Ludwig. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843. De Gruyter, Berlin 2013, p. 44.
  4. ↑ Piazza Spagna, Bergamo scopre targa in onore pittore inglese Ludwig Catel . In: La Repubblica , Rome edition, 10 November 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Catel, Franz Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Catel, Franz Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wood sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1856
Place of death Rome