Johann Christian Zippel (painter)

Johann Christian Zippel (* 1789 in Potsdam ; † 1841 ) was a German history and portrait painter .

Life

Zippel studied painting at the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin with Johann Gottlieb Puhlmann . In 1806 and 1808 he took part in the Berlin Academy exhibition with copies after Franz Hillner as well as Rubens and Tizian . From 1811 to at least 1841 he was based in Paris. In 1811 he enrolled as a student at the École des Beaux-Arts , and from 1812 he was a student in Antoine-Jean Gros' studio . In 1820, he took part in the exhibition of the Prussian Academy of the Arts with two paintings. There is evidence of copying activity in the Louvre around 1841 .

Works

• Friedrich Wilhelm III. and Tsar Alexander I before Paris, undated, oil / canvas, undivided, last: Berlin, Stadtschloss (1915) (TB)
• Passage des Souverains alliés sur le Boulevard de Saint-Denis en 1814, 1815, oil / canvas, 60 × 81 cm, inv. No. P. 520, Paris, Musée Carnavalet (cat. Paris 1999, p. 427) (plate XVIII)
• Entry of the three allied monarchs into Paris on March 31, 1814, missing (TB; Joos 1918, p. 43).

literature

• Jennifer Falckenberg: Zippel, Johann Christian , in: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (Ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 325–326.