Gustav Gerson Prince

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Gustav Gerson Fürst (born October 2, 1840 in Berlin , † December 28, 1918 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) was a German painter, decorative painter and decorative artist .

Life

Fürst attended the "Berlin Art School" and received training at the Royal Model Drawing School in Berlin. From 1862 to 1870 he was in Paris and studied in the studio of Édouard Charles Hugot as well as with AF Wauquier and JA Delforre . In 1870 he exhibited in the Paris Salon . From 1870 he worked as a decorative painter in Berlin and furnished villas and private houses with wall and ceiling paintings, u. a. in Berlin's Tiergarten district . In the years 1872 to 1880 and 1892 there was regular participation in the Berlin Academy exhibitions. Fürst was a member of the Berlin Artists' Association from 1881 to 1914. His son Edmund was also known as a painter. His daughter Clara (1879–1944) was the first wife of the German-American painter Lyonel Feininger .

Works

  • Fruits , whereabouts unknown (Salon 1870, No. 1112).

literature

  • Beatrice Hilke: Fürst, Gustav Gerson In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (Hrsg.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. registry office Wilmersdorf, Death No 1876/1918.. State Archives Berlin.