Johann August Nahl the Younger
Johann August Nahl the Younger (born January 7, 1752 in Zollikofen near Bern , † January 31, 1825 in Kassel ) was a German painter born in Switzerland (history and landscape paintings ).
Life
Nahl was a member of the German artist family Nahl . He grew up in Kassel and was initially instructed in sculpture by his father, the sculptor Johann August Nahl the Elder . With Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder Ä. (1763/64) he then trained as a painter, which he continued in Strasbourg with Tanesch and Christoph von Bemmel (1765–1767) and in Bern with Emanuel Handmann (1767–1770). In 1771/72 Nahl painted the parental home in Kassel. From 1773 Nahl attended the academy in Paris . From 1774 he lived in Rome. In 1781 he returned to Kassel. From 1788 he created landscapes and paintings drawn in sepia. After 1792 he became a professor at the Kassel Academy and from 1815 was director of the painting class there.
Wilhelm Nahl (July 22, 1803 to June 14, 1880) was his son and student, who made a portrait of him in 1826.
Works (selection)
- Ariadne on Naxos 1788
- Narcissus looking at his picture in the water
- Jupiter and Antiope
- Thisbe on the corpse of Pyramus
- Mercur outwitting Dianen in dice game
- Orpheus directed Euiydice out of the underworld in 1807
literature
- Nahl, Johann August. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 123 ( archive.org ).
- Lionel von Donop : Nahl, Johann August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 240 f.
- Nahl, tysk konstnärsslakt . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 19 : Mykenai-Norrpada . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1913, Sp. 388–389 (Swedish, runeberg.org - No. 3 in family article , p. 389).
- Nahl, Johann August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931.
- Sabine Fett, Michaela Kalusok, Ulrich Schmidt: The artist family Nahl, Rococo and Classicism in Kassel. Published by Staatliche Museen Kassel, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-923461-12-7 (with a list of all works by Johann Samuel Nahl the Younger in the possession of the Staatliche Museen Kassel).
- Sabine Fett: Nahl, Johann August the Younger. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 721 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Nahl, Johann August (the younger). In: Sikart
- Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale: Nahl, Johann August (1752)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nahl, Wilhelm. museum-kassel.de, accessed on December 26, 2019 (biography).
- ^ Pyramus and Thisbe - Johann August Nahl (the younger) picture index.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nahl, Johann August the Younger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nahl, Johann August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1752 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zollikofen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1825 |
| Place of death | kassel |