Johann Grund (painter)
Carl Johann Grund (born May 19, 1808 in Vienna , † August 4, 1887 in Baden-Baden ) was an Austrian- German history , genre and portrait painter .
Life
From 1820 Johann Grund attended the elementary class at the Art Academy in Vienna , where he was enrolled in the history drawing class in 1827. From 1827 he went hiking through the Alpine countries and lived in Zurich for several years. The artist settled in Karlsruhe and became a citizen of Baden in 1831 , later he lived in Baden-Baden. He married the patrician daughter Anna Appenzeller from Zurich in Karlsruhe in 1832. From May 14, 1839 he was court painter at the court of Grand Duke Leopold von Baden .
He went on numerous study trips: Paris (1839 and more often), Munich , Vienna , Düsseldorf (1843), Rome (1842/43), Hungary (1844). Theodor Leopold Weller made a portrait of him in Rome in 1843, as did Grund von Weller.
Works by Johann Grund can be found in the collections of the museums in Karlsruhe, Mannheim and Vienna.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Grund, Johann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 5th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski & C. Dittmarsch.), Vienna 1859, p. 398 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Friedrich von Boetticher : Painters works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume 1,1, Dresden 1891, pp. 420-421 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Heinrich Feurstein : reason, Johann . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 142 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- State Art Gallery Karlsruhe. 100 drawings and prints from the Kupferstichkabinett . Cantz, Stuttgart 1988, p. 160.
- Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs . Nouvelle Édtion, Volume 6: Genck – Herwarth . Gründ, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7000-3016-8 , p. 496.
- Jutta Dresch: Reason, Johann . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 63, Saur, Munich a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23030-1 , pp. 441 f.
Web links
- Works by and about Johann Grund in the German Digital Library
- RKD
- Friedrich Noack : Schedarium of the artists in Rome: reason, Joh. Bibliotheca Hertziana (digitized).
- Liveauctioneers
- Works by Johann Grund on the artnet portal
Individual evidence
- ↑ The statement by Beate Schroedter: "... because you are drawn in life-size and measured in the artist's book". Portraits of German artists in Rome during the Romantic period . Rutzen, Ruhpolding 2008, ISBN 978-3-938646-29-8 , p. 105, he was a son of the painter Johann Jakob Grund (1755–1814), cannot be correct for chronological reasons, according to Wurzbach the relationship is unclear.
- ↑ Collection of portraits of German artists in Rome (first artist album), portrait Johann Grund, draftsman Theodor Leopold Weller
- ^ Collection of portraits of German artists in Rome (first artist album), portrait of Theodor Leopold Weller, draftsman Johann Grund
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reason, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reason, Carl Johann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian portrait and genre painter, active in Germany |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1887 |
| Place of death | Baden-Baden |