Gottlieb Gassen

Gottlieb Gassen , also Theophil Gassen (born August 2, 1805 in Ehrenbreitstein , † June 3, 1878 in Koblenz ), was a German painter .

Life

Portrait by Heinrich Heine , 1828

Gassen was a student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Peter Cornelius . In 1824 he made his debut there at an exhibition with the box Hypolit's Tod . In 1827 he followed Cornelius to Munich . He helped him with fresco paintings . For example, he painted the storming of Godesberg near Bonn by Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria (based on Hermann Stilke's design) in the arcades of the royal court garden and in the new building of the Munich residence with Carl Heinrich Hermann and Eugen Napoleon Neureuther the circle of images from Walther von der Vogelweide , Wolfram von Eschenbach and Wieland's “ Oberon ” as well as several ceiling paintings after Cornelius in the loggias of the Alte Pinakothek alone .

He returned to Koblenz in the early 1840s. During this time, based on his own design, the frescoes in the Trinity Church in Weißenthurm on the Rhine (Neuwied opposite) were created.

literature

Gassen, Gottlieb . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 233 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Bernd Brauksiepe, Anton Neugebauer: Artist Lexicon Rhineland-Palatinate. Painter and graphic artist from 1450 to 1950. Ed. Ministry of Culture Rhineland-Palatinate. Mainz 1986, DNB 890749639 , p. 76 f.
Gassen, Theophil (eigtl. Gottlieb). In: Andreas Beyer , Bénédicte Savoy , Wolf Tegethoff , Eberhard König : General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . KG Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-22790-6 , volume 50, p. 44 f.

Web links

Theophil Gassen , auction results in the portal rkd.nl ( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )

Theophil (Gottlieb) Gassen , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection), as of November 2016, (PDF)
^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 118, No. 47 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Gassen, Gottlieb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gassen, Theophil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 2, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ehrenbreitstein
DATE OF DEATH	June 3, 1878
Place of death	Koblenz

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

[2] Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 118, No. 47 ( digitized version )