Johann Carl Rößler

Josef Haydn, portrait by Johann Carl Rößler, 1799

Johann Carl Rößler (born May 18, 1775 in Görlitz , † February 20, 1845 in Dresden ) was a German portrait painter.

Trained as a nail smith in his youth, Rößler began his studies in 1794 at the Dresden Art Academy with Giovanni Battista Casanova .

Roessler visited Paris. In 1803 he and his fellow student Franz Gareis traveled from Paris via Marseille and Livorno to Rome, where Gareis died of typhus in the same year . Roessler spent the period from 1803 to 1807 in Rome . There he lived in the artists' quarter on the Spanish Steps , where he portrayed the then 22-year-old Karl Friedrich Schinkel . In 1806 he met Bertel Thorwaldsen in Rome ; this acquaintance continued even after Roessler returned in 1807.

In 1810 Rößler was appointed a member of the Academy for Portrait and History Painting, in 1815 he was appointed professor at the Dresden Art Academy.

Ernst Benedikt Kietz , Christian Tunica and Adolf Gottlob Zimmermann were among his students .

literature

Georg Kaspar Nagler : Roessler, Johann Carl. In: New general artist lexicon. Volume 13: Renghiero - Rubens. EA Fleischmann, Munich 1843, p. 303 f.
Roessler, Carl. In: General Artist Lexicon. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1850, column 1323 f.
Roessler, Johann Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 502 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Carl Rößler - Collection of Images

Johann Carl Rössler in the archive of the Thorvaldsen Museum

Individual evidence

^ France Nerlich, Bénédicte Savoy: Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843. De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2013, p. 85.
^ France Nerlich, Bénédicte Savoy: Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843. De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2013, p. 140.

personal data
SURNAME	Roessler, Johann Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 18, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH	February 20, 1845
Place of death	Dresden

[1] France Nerlich, Bénédicte Savoy: Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843. De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2013, p. 85.

[2] France Nerlich, Bénédicte Savoy: Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843. De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2013, p. 140.