Gustav Jacob Canton
Gustav Jacob Canton (born April 7, 1813 in Mainz , † March 20, 1885 in Munich ) was a German landscape and animal painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Canton was born the son of a spice trader in Mainz. He received his first lessons in painting and drawing from the painters Nikolaus Müller and Louis Catoir (1792–1841). In 1832 he moved to Munich and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts until 1836 . From there he went on study trips to the Bavarian mountains, Tyrol and Switzerland . In 1837 he went to Düsseldorf to deepen landscape painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1838 to 1847 he was a student of the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer there . Other teachers from Düsseldorf were the landscape painters Andreas Achenbach and Carl Friedrich Lessing . Together with Wilhelm Camphausen , Henry Ritter , Rudolf Jordan , Hans Fredrik Gude , Rudolf von Normann and Frederik Nicolai Jensen , Canton founded the democratic and academically critical group Crignic in 1844 , the name of which is made up of the first letters of the members. This group is considered to be the forerunner of the artists' association Malkasten , which was founded in 1848 and to which he also belonged. In 1851 Canton was one of the artists whose work was exhibited in the Düsseldorf Gallery in New York City . In the same year he traveled to England and Scotland , where he worked as a lithographer . In the 1850s he illustrated several books, of which he himself wrote the book Der Thiergarten, an invitation to young people to serenely contemplate living nature , and published it in the Mainz publishing house Joseph Scholz. His illustrations from The Story of Reynard the Fox , which the Scottish poet David Vedder (1790-1854) had published in London from 1852 on , made him particularly well-known . From 1853 to 1857 Canton made a grand tour through Italy , to the south of France and into the Pyrenees . In 1860 he lived in Mainz. In 1864 he moved back to Munich and toured the Alpine countries and Italy. In Munich he died of pneumonia.
Works (selection)
- Self-portrait of the artist during landscape studies in the mountains , chalk lithograph, around 1845/1850
- Landscape near Palestine in the Papal States , 1866
- Nettuno on the coast of the Pontine Marshes , 1869
- Osteria on the Via Flaminia near Rome , 1869
- Roman Osteria , 1872
- Terracina , 1873
- Roman campagnoles with a herd of buffalo , 1874
- Thieridylle from Lake Starnberg (Bernried) , 1875
- Neapolitan fishermen , 1878
- From Lazio , 1880
- At Borghezza , 1882
- In the south , 1883
literature
- Canton, Gustav . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 94 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Canton, Gustav Jacob , entry in the portal deutsche-biographie.de
- Gustav Jacob Canton , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Theilmann: The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 144
- ^ Bettina Baumgärtel : The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international charisma . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819-1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 31
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on March 27, 2016
- ↑ GJCanton / self-portrait , data sheet in the portal akg-images.com , accessed on March 27, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Canton, Gustav Jacob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape and animal painter and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1885 |
| Place of death | Munich |