Thank God Michael Wentzel

Romantic wide landscape

Gottlob Michael Wentzel (born April 7, 1792 in Großschönau , † August 4, 1866 in Dresden ) was a German still life and landscape painter .

Life

Still life

Wentzel initially worked as a dancer and dance master at the Leipzig City Theater and painted flowers in opaque colors before studying with Cajetan Toscani and Ferdinand Hartmann at the Dresden Art Academy . He continued his studies in Vienna in 1812 and Munich in 1823. From 1825 he worked in Leipzig . He spent the period from 1828 to 1831 in Italy . In 1835 he became a drawing teacher at the Royal Building Trade School in Dresden and at the Technical College in Dresden , and from 1862–1866 as a professor of drawing and painting.

Wentzel mainly painted landscapes as well as pictures of flowers, animals and fruits.

Works

• Motifs for ornaments for use by artists and traders. Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1843 ( slub-dresden.de ).
• The commercial artist. Zöllner, Dresden 1849.

literature

• Thank God Michael Wentzel . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 10, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22750-7 , p. 481.
• Wentzel, thank God Michael . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 382-383 .
• Busse 1977, p. 1330.
• Wentzel, Michael, or Gottlob Michael. In: Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Volume 14: Valverde – Zyw. Gründ, Paris 2006, p. 542, doi: 10.1093 / benz / 9780199773787.article.B00196057 (restricted access).

Web links

Commons : Gottlob Michael Wentzel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• lot-tissimo biography
• Schmidt biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wentzel, Michael . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 78 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Obviously here with number rotator 1729 in the year of birth).
2. ^ Emmanuel Bénézit : Wentzel (Michael) . In: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs & graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . tape 3 : L-Z . Ernest Gründ, Paris 1924, p. 1052 (French, text archive - Internet Archive ).