Hermann Karl Kersting

Hermann Kersting as a landscape painter (Georg Friedrich Kersting, 1843)

Hermann Karl Kersting (born January 19, 1825 in Meißen , † November 11, 1850 in Dresden ) was a German history painter .

Life

Fairytale sleigh ride (watercolor and pen)

He was the son of Georg Friedrich Kersting and his wife Agnes (née Sergel). He received his first artistic training from his father. He then attended the Dresden Art Academy , where he was first a student of Eduard Bendemann and later of Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld . Originally he tended towards landscape painting , so his father also depicted the 18-year-old as a landscape painter with a portfolio, palette and folding stool in the great outdoors. But under the influence of Bendemann in particular, who belonged to the Düsseldorf School of Painting , he turned to history painting .

His brother had settled in Meissen as a doctor. However, he died in 1844. The father died only a few years after July 1st, 1847. The painter Ludwig Richter was a family friend.

Works (selection)

Due to his early death from a lung disease at the age of 25, his talent could hardly develop.

One of his few works shows Johann Tetzel how he is plundered by a knight, to whom he had previously sold a valid letter of indulgence for a sin still to be committed.

Another work is a watercolor that shows two young women looking over a parapet.

literature

Hannelore Gärtner: Georg Friedrich Kersting. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-363-00359-5 , p. 146.
Kersting, Hermann Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 196 .

Individual evidence

^ Georg Friedrich Kersting . In: Messages from the Association for the History of the City of Meissen . tape 2 . Louis Mosche, Meissen 1891, Meissen artists' lives, p. 245–247, here p. 247 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
^ Hermann Karl Kersting . In: Messages from the Association for the History of the City of Meissen . tape 2 . Louis Mosche, Meissen 1891, Meissen artists' lives, p. 247 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
^ German drawings of the XIX. Century, hand drawings by old masters of the XV. – XVIII. Century, German graphics of the early XIX. Century . CG Boerner, Leipzig 1939, p. 15 , illustration of work no.129 on panel XII ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive , Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Kersting, Hermann Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Biedermeier painter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 19, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH	Meissen
DATE OF DEATH	November 11, 1850
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Georg Friedrich Kersting . In: Messages from the Association for the History of the City of Meissen . tape 2 . Louis Mosche, Meissen 1891, Meissen artists' lives, p. 245–247, here p. 247 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] Hermann Karl Kersting . In: Messages from the Association for the History of the City of Meissen . tape 2 . Louis Mosche, Meissen 1891, Meissen artists' lives, p. 247 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[3] German drawings of the XIX. Century, hand drawings by old masters of the XV. – XVIII. Century, German graphics of the early XIX. Century . CG Boerner, Leipzig 1939, p. 15 , illustration of work no.129 on panel XII ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive , Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).