Gustav Quentell

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Johann Hermann Holler and his wife Emma Sophie riding out in Oberneuland . Oil painting, 1853, Focke-Museum Bremen.

Gustav Quentell (born March 5, 1816 in Bremen , † October 26, 1896 in Detmold ) was a painter of portraits and animal pictures, especially horses, who came from Bremen and worked in Detmold.

Life

Gustav Quentell was born in Bremen as the son of the merchant and wine merchant Wilhelm Quentell (1784–1840) and his wife Anna Louise Wilhelmine Rodewald (1794–1880) and received a commercial education corresponding to his origins. A trip to northern France is said to have inspired him artistically. After 1833 he took lessons from the Cologne animal and battle painter Simon Meister, studied at the academy in Düsseldorf , got to know the famous horse painter Franz Krüger and his work in Berlin , and Paris is also mentioned as a place of study. Since his sister had married the Lippe court marshal Karl Friedrich August von Meyenburg, Gustav Quentell and his parents moved to Detmold, a residential town in which horse breeding, cavalry and stables played a prominent role.

The oeuvre Quentells is not all that large, multiple images are to the location in Lippe Museum . Occasionally he painted horses and other animals in the landscapes of his painter friend Carl Rötteken . Quentell died in Detmold.

The figure of Gustav Quentell in the autobiographical novel Sommer in Lesmona (1956) by Magda Pauli has nothing to do with the painter treated here, but is a pseudonym for Gustav Kulenkampff.

Selected works

Gustav Quentell, Senner horses, (together with Carl Rötteken), 1858, Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold

painting

  • JH Holler and his wife on horseback, 1853, Focke-Museum Bremen
  • Refreshment (horses at the watering station), formerly Kunsthalle Bremen
  • Senner horses, (together with Carl Rötteken), 1858, Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold
  • Rider in front of the Lopshorn hunting lodge, dated 1860, Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold
  • Two tigers, around 1860, Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold

drawings

  • Portrait of Emanuel Geibel, around 1850, engraved by August Semmler
  • Life stages of a horse, 11 drawings, 1891, Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold

Remarks

  1. ↑ The time and finality of the relocation are not entirely clear. According to V. Scheef, Quentell lived and worked in Detmold from 1838, on the other hand he is still listed in the Bremen address book in 1872 as an "animal painter".
  2. ↑ http://s2w.hbz-nrw.de/llb/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:51:1-4355

literature

  • Thieme-Becker . Artist Lexicon, Vol. 27, p. 512.
  • Vera Scheef: Gustav Quentell . In: Heimatland Lippe 89 . 1996, pp. 366-368.

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personal data
SURNAME Quentell, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1896
Place of death Detmold