Friedrich Becker (painter, 1808)

Friedrich Becker (* 1808 in Paderborn ; † after 1859 ) was a German genre , history and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

After working as an engraver and lithographer , Becker began studying painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1829 , which he initially interrupted in 1830. In 1839, at the advanced age of 32, he resumed his studies, only to finish it in 1842/1843. Rudolf Wiegmann and Theodor Hildebrandt were his teachers at the Düsseldorf Academy . Becker lived in Düsseldorf and was one of the founding members of the Malkasten artists' association there in 1848 . He exhibited at Berlin academic art exhibitions in 1836, 1838, 1844 and 1848. His oeuvre includes genre paintings, portraits as well as literary, mythological and biblical histories.

Works (selection)

Rural idyll , 1838
The old knight with his daughter , 1838
Mignon as an angel among children , 1843
Girl taking a bath , 1844
Arria and Paetus , 1846
The kidnapping , 1848
Three ladies surprised while bathing , 1848
Portrait of a Lady , 1849
Esther on the way to Ahasuerus , 1850
Magdalena , 1851
Assault of the soldiers while resting , 1857
Waiting young fisher woman , 1859

literature

Hans Vollmer : Becker, Friedrich . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 147 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Becker, Friedrich . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume 1, Dresden 1891, p. 58.

Web links

Friedrich Becker , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Friedrich Becker , auction results on the portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016) , PDF .
↑ finding aid 212.01.04 student lists the Dusseldorf Art Academy , the portal website archive.nrw.de ( State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia ).
↑ Ifee Tack, Christian Scholl: Catalog of 19th century paintings at the Goettingen University collection. Cat. No. 1: Friedrich Becker: Three ladies surprised while bathing . In: Christian Scholl, Anne-Katrin Sors (Hrsg.): Academic rigor and artistic freedom. The paintings of the 19th century in the painting collection of the University of Göttingen . Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86395-102-3 , pp. 65 ff. ( Google Books ).
↑ Ifee Tack: Mythology in the 19th Century - The image of the three women surprised while bathing , website in the portal uni-goettingen.de , accessed on November 29, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Becker, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German genre, history and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	1808
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paderborn
DATE OF DEATH	after 1859

[1] Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016) , PDF .

[2] finding aid 212.01.04 student lists the Dusseldorf Art Academy , the portal website archive.nrw.de ( State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia ).

[3] Ifee Tack, Christian Scholl: Catalog of 19th century paintings at the Goettingen University collection. Cat. No. 1: Friedrich Becker: Three ladies surprised while bathing . In: Christian Scholl, Anne-Katrin Sors (Hrsg.): Academic rigor and artistic freedom. The paintings of the 19th century in the painting collection of the University of Göttingen . Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86395-102-3 , pp. 65 ff. ( Google Books ).

[4] Ifee Tack: Mythology in the 19th Century - The image of the three women surprised while bathing , website in the portal uni-goettingen.de , accessed on November 29, 2018.