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Watercolor by Gottlob Theuerkauf

Christian Gottlob Heinrich Theuerkauf (born January 21, 1833 in Kassel ; † March 5, 1911 there ) was a German painter and lithographer .

Life

Theuerkauf, who learned the art of lithography using chalk technique at a young age , also attended the Kassel Art Academy as part of his artistic training . From 1848 he came out with his own work. In 1851 he went to Berlin , where he lithographed landscapes and architectural pictures and drew them for woodcut . Theuerkauf produced numerous illustrations for high-circulation publications of his time, including the Illustrirte Zeitung , Die Gartenlaube and Über Land und Meer . In addition, his works have also appeared in books. He created views of numerous German and European cities and buildings. From 1875 he also turned to watercolor painting .

In 1890 , Theuerkauf completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin in Charlottenburg , where he initially worked as a private lecturer in watercolors as well as architecture and landscape painting , and was appointed professor in 1895. Until 1904 he taught landscape painting at the university.

Theuerkauf spent his twilight years in his hometown Kassel, where he died in 1911. In 1898 he published the autobiographical dialect volume Uß den Kännerjohren , written in the North Hessian dialect . Memories of an old Kasselan in Kassel dialect . There were also other dialectic writings from him, Mangel and Iwwerfluss and Vun unse alen Bergergarde .

literature

Purchase price, thank God . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 16 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ Gottlob Theuerkauf: Uß den Kännerjohren: Memories of an old Kasselan in Kassel dialect . Döll, Kassel 1898, OCLC 179915924 .
↑ 460. [Theuerkauf.] In: Communications to the members of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies . Printed by Gebr. Schönhoven, 1897, p. LXXV ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Purchase price, thank God
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Theuerkauf, Christian Gottlob Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, lithographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 21, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH	kassel
DATE OF DEATH	March 5, 1911
Place of death	kassel

[1] Gottlob Theuerkauf: Uß den Kännerjohren: Memories of an old Kasselan in Kassel dialect . Döll, Kassel 1898, OCLC 179915924 .

[2] 460. [Theuerkauf.] In: Communications to the members of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies . Printed by Gebr. Schönhoven, 1897, p. LXXV ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).