Georg Cornicelius

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Georg Cornicelius (born August 28, 1825 in Hanau ; † December 9, 1898 there ) was a German painter and draftsman .

Life

Georg Cornicelius was born on August 28, 1825 as the son of the porcelain painter Friedrich Cornicelius in Hanau. After his school days he attended the Hanau Drawing Academy from 1838 to 1848 , where he and his classmates Carl Friedrich Deiker , Friedrich Karl Hausmann and Gustav Spangenberg received thorough training as a painter and portrait painter from director Theodor Pélissier (1794–1863). In the revolutionary year of 1848 he continued his studies at the Academy of Antwerp and, after a temporary stay in Hanau, moved to Dresden in 1851, which he left again in 1852. Further study stays took him to Paris, Florence, Venice, Verona and also Munich, until he settled again in Hanau.

Half-length portrait girl with a fan (1880) by Georg Cornicelius, model sat his eldest daughter Lulu

In 1872 he was made an honorary member of the Hanau drawing academy and in 1888 appointed to its titular professor. Cornicelius founded and directed a private painting school for several decades. His oeuvre as a history and art painter was just as famous as his portraiture. Since 1854, works by Cornicelius could be found at most of the major art exhibitions in Munich, Düsseldorf, Berlin and other places.

Cornicelius was a very good gymnast and belonged to the Hanau gymnastics community founded in 1837 . Since he portrayed gymnast Jahn and the Hanau gymnast Karl Röttelberg on the occasion of the establishment of the German Gymnastics Federation at the first German Gymnastics Day on May 1, 1848 in Hanau , while his friend Friedrich Karl Hausmann drew the Hanau gymnastics guide August Schärttner , he and Hausmann became one Assumed certain sympathy with the democratic-republican wing of the 48 movement . The Corniceliusstraße in Hanau is named after him.

literature

  • Ludwig Julius Fränkel:  Cornicelius, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 527-529.
  • Karl Siebert: Cornicelius, Georg . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 440–441 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • August Winkler, Georg Cornicelius f., Hanauer Anzeiger No. 290 v. December 13, 1898.
  • Karl Siebert: The artistic development of Georg Cornicelius. Dissertation Freiburg 1905.
  • Karl Siebert: Directory of the works of the painter Georg Cornicelius. In: Studies on German Art History. 17, 1st issue, Strasbourg 1914.
  • Karl Siebert: On the hundredth birthday of Georg Cornicelius. Contributions to his assessment as a person and an artist. In: Hanauisches Magazin. 4, 1925, pp. 57-84.
  • Dr. Lotz: Cornicelius and Hausmann. Two nineteenth-century painters from Hanau. In: Hanauisches Magazin. 4th vol., 1925, No. 12, pp. 113-144.
  • Karl Siebert: Georg Cornicelius in the judgment of contemporaries. In: Hanauisches Magazin. 6, 1926, pp. 168-178.
  • Anton Merk: Georg Cornicelius 1825–1898: A painter in Hanau. His life and work. Hanau 1998.

Web links

Commons : Georg Cornicelius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erhard Bus : Prof. Georg Cornicelius. In: WA Nagel-Stiftung u. a. (Ed.): Buried - but not forgotten. Well-known personalities at Hanau cemeteries. Hanau 2008, p. 61.
personal data
SURNAME Cornicelius, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1898
Place of death Hanau