Gottfried Wilhelm Völcker
Gottfried Wilhelm Völcker (born March 23, 1775 in Berlin ; † November 1, 1849 there ) was a German flower painter and one of the directors of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory (KPM) in Berlin.
Live and act
Völcker trained as a porcelain painter in the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur, in the Berlin production building at Leipziger Strasse 4. As the successor to his teacher Johann Friedrich Schulze, he took over the management of flower painting in 1803 and, from 1825, of the figure department. From 1833 to 1848 he was director of the entire porcelain manufacture.
In 1811 Völcker became a professor and became a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin and from 1814 to 1846 in the Berlin Artists' Association. Study trips took him to Vienna in 1821, to Paris in 1823 and to Holland in 1825.
Völcker was mainly active as a porcelain painter, but also painted naturalistic depictions of still lifes with flowers and fruits in oil and watercolor. With his works he took part regularly in the Berlin academy exhibitions since 1794. He also frequently worked with Friedrich August von Kloeber , who also created numerous motifs for the Royal Porcelain Manufactory. His son Friedrich Wilhelm (1799–1870) also became known as a painter.
Awards
- 1832 Red Eagle Order IV class
- 1839 Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with a bow
- 1847 Appointed Privy Councilor
Works (selection)
- 1801 Still life with flowers with delphiniums, roses, poppies, lilacs, daffodils, tulips and cowslips
- 1811 Still life with roses, lilacs, tulips and hydrangea
- 1815 Bouquet of flowers in a vase (painting in Glienicke Palace , Berlin)
- 1818 Large bouquet of flowers in a vase
- 1823 Still life with flowers
- 1827 Still life with a fruit basket
- 1828 Flowers in a crystal vase
- 1833 Pausias with the flower girl (figures by Friedrich August von Kloeber), Marble Palace , Potsdam
- 1842 Tabletop with an abundance of flowers , Schwerin State Museum
- 1847 Still life with an arrangement of flowers, fruits and an ear of corn on a stone slab
- 1847 Still life with an arrangement of different flowers (irises, slipper flowers , auricles, daylilies, bluebells, pansies and Levkojen are dominated by various types of roses). Made for the apartment of Queen Elisabeth Ludovika in Charlottenburg Palace , Berlin.
Still life with flowers, 1823, Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin
Still life with a fruit basket, 1827, Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin
Still life with an arrangement of various flowers , 1847
literature
- Gottfried Wilhelm Völcker . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 467-468 .
- Völcker, Gottfried Wilhelm. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, p. 941 ( archive.org ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Schlie : Descriptive directory of the works of recent masters in the Grand Ducal Painting Gallery in Schwerin . Printed by the Bärensprungschen Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin 1884, p. 104 ( digitized at Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Völcker, Gottfried Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German flower painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1849 |
| Place of death | Berlin |