Hugo Schnars-Alquist

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Hugo Schnars-Alquist, 1905

Carl Wilhelm Hugo Schnars-Alquist (born October 29, 1855 in Hamburg ; † August 20, 1939 there ) was a German marine painter .

life and work

On the Elbe , 1898

As the son of a merchant family, he was even first merchant, but also formed his native city in the drawing and on the trade school self-taught in painting from. Encouraged by the success of various seascapes, which immediately found buyers, he changed saddles in 1884 and became a master student of Hans Gude at the Berlin Art Academy in 1886 . 1888-89 he was a delegate of the German art cooperative and member of the jury at the World Exhibition in Melbourne , founded the " Association of the XI " in 1891 with Max Liebermann , Walter Leistikow and others , was a member of the Reich Commission from 1892-93, a member of the Jury in Chicago, was appointed professor in 1896 and moved back to Hamburg from Berlin in 1898. He was also a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

Grave "Professor Schnars-Alquist", Ohlsdorf cemetery

His numerous sea voyages to North, Central and South America, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Ceylon, North and South Europe taught him to portray the sea at all latitudes, in all seasons and in all moods. The German Kaiser Wilhelm II ( Help in Sight , 1890), the Reich Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow ( Germany , 1900), the Kunsthalle Hamburg ( Northwest , 1903), the museums in Elbing, Adelaïde, St. Louis and many others owned pictures of him Private collections in Germany, America, Australia etc. He also painted many pictures for the steamers of the Hamburg-America Line .

Carl Wilhelm Schnars and Julius Alexander Schnars were his uncles.

Hugo Schnars-Alquist was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery on grave field AA 32.

literature

  • Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 17. Leipzig 1909, pp. 914–915
  • Jörgen Bracker, Peter Tamm u. a: Painter of the Sea: Marine painting in three centuries . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1980, ISBN 3-782-20241-4
  • E. Hakon: The painter of the ocean . In: Illustrated Universum-Jahrbuch 1912 . Leipzig: Reclam, 1912, pp. 384–389. With two art supplements and six painting reproductions.
  • Hans Jürgen Hansen: German marine painting . Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg and Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-7979-1117-3

Web links

Commons : Hugo Schnars-Alquist  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Bernhard Koerner: German gender book, Genealogisches Handbuch Bürgerlicher Familien. Volume 21. Starke, Görlitz 1912, pp. 404, 405 and 407
  2. ↑ Celebrity Graves
personal data
SURNAME Schnars-Alquist, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnars-Alquist, Carl Wilhelm Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1939
Place of death Hamburg