Jacques Matthias Schenker
Jacques Matthias Schenker (born February 24, 1854 in Lucerne ; † March 25, 1927 in Vitznau , Canton Lucerne ) was a Swiss landscape , marine and vedute painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
From 1870 to 1872 Schenker studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , first in the elementary class under Andreas Müller , then in the landscape class under Albert Flamm . After the fire at the Düsseldorf Academy , from 1872 to 1876, he studied at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar under Theodor Hagen , whose master class he was. After he had worked as a freelance painter in Dresden for a time , he founded a painting school for women there in 1879. At the great Berlin art exhibitionof 1896 received a great gold medal. Schenker preferred to travel to coastal landscapes in Normandy and Brittany, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Dalmatia and Italy. In 1905 he returned to Switzerland. From 1907 he lived mainly in Vitznau.
Works (selection)
- View of Dresden , 1876
- Street in San Remo , 1881
- The Osterpiepe in Emden , 1891, Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden
- Coastal landscape with fishermen in Brittany , 1892
- Fishing port in Normandy , 1893
- Bodden landscape , 1900
- View from the bay of Beckenried towards Vitznau , 1913
- Beach at Dieppe at low tide
literature
- Schenker, Jacques Matth. In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume 2, p. 539
Web links
- Jacques Matthias Schenker , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Jacques Matthias Schenker , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . 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 2, p. 439
- ↑ Schenker, Jacques Matthias , website in the saxonia.com portal , accessed on July 17, 2016
- ↑ Die Osterpiepe in Emden , website in the portal landesmuseum-emden.de , accessed on July 17, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schenker, Jacques Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss landscape, marine and vedute painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lucerne |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 1927 |
| Place of death | Vitznau , Canton of Lucerne |