James Marshall (painter)
James Marshall (born February 5, 1838 in The Hague , † July 18, 1902 in Leipzig ) was a Dutch-German painter.
Life
His father James Marshall (1808-1881), born in County Down , was a teacher of English literature and secretary to Sophie of Orange-Nassau , his mother was a Dutch woman. When Sophie von Oranien-Nassau married Carl Alexander (Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) in 1842 , the family moved to Weimar. Together with his brother William Marshall (1845–1907) he grew up in Weimar.
He was a student of Friedrich Preller the Elder at the Princely Free Drawing School in Weimar and of Nicaise de Keyser at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerp in Antwerp . Back in Weimar, he continued to study with Bonaventura Genelli . On the occasion of the grand ducal couple's silver wedding anniversary in 1867, he painted a large tribute picture.
In 1870 he moved to Dresden and founded an art school there. From 1878 to 1882 he was a professor at the Royal Art and Trade School in Breslau , but had to give up the position because of alcoholic problems . He became the model for the figure of the painter Crampton in Gerhart Hauptmann's comedy colleague Crampton . Most recently he lived in Leipzig .
He mainly created history paintings, but also portraits. In many of the works of his later years there was a "tendency of the artist to be demonic".
Works
- Jubilee picture of the University of Jena (Senate picture) 1858
- Ceiling painting in the Weimar court theater
- Ceiling painting and frieze above the proscenium, Semperoper Dresden
- Iconostasis of the Russian Church in Dresden
- Frescoes in the Albrechtsburg Castle in Meissen , Great Courtroom: Conventus deliberativus and death of Elector Moritz (1875/76)
- Altarpiece and mural in the Luther Church (Leipzig)
- Tartini's dream , Schack Collection , Munich
- Portrait of the painter Bonaventura Genelli , National Gallery (Berlin)
- Portrait of Eduard Lassen , Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts
Senate picture , dated 1860, oil on canvas, 210 × 270 cm
Tartini's Dream , before 1868, oil on canvas, 84.0 × 109.5 cm
Portrait of the painter Bonaventura Genelli , 1860, oil on canvas, 48 × 40 cm
Portrait of a bearded man in a fur coat , 1858, 117 × 88 cm
literature
- Marshall, James. In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1891, p. 941
- Marshall, James . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 141 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ekkehard Mai : The German art academies in the 19th century: Artist training between tradition and avant-garde. Böhlau, Köln / Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20498-3 , p. 445, note 159.
- ↑ [Obituary]. In: Art for All . Volume 17, 1902, p. 549 ( digitized version ), accessed on July 23, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marshall, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch-German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | The hague |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1902 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |