Johann Wilhelm Nahl

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Johann Wilhelm Nahl (born July 22, 1803 in Kassel ; † June 1880 there ) was a German painter , etcher and art collector .

Life

Before 1818 Nahl settled with his father Johann August Nahl the Elder in Kassel . J. train. From 1818 he was a student of the art academy in Kassel with the painter Sebastian Weygandt . Between 1823 and 1825 he was with the brothers Georg Zahn and Wilhelm Zahn in Paris, where he enrolled as a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts . From 1828 he was back in Kassel and received orders from Elector Wilhelm II of Hessen-Kassel .

Work (selection)

  • Self-portrait, 1823, pencil, whereabouts unknown (Preime 1943, fig. 17)
  • Portrait of Johann August Nahl the Elder J., Study, 1823–1825, oil / zinc sheet, 10.6 × 8.2 cm, Inv. No. 1875/1209, Museum Landscape Hessen Kassel
  • Copy after Raphael, 1824, whereabouts unknown (Hanover, StA)
  • Aeneas and Dido after Pierre Narcisse Guérin, 1824, oil / canvas, 42.8 × 56 cm, signed: lower right: Paris W. Nahl. pinx. 1824, Inv. No. AZ 98, Museum Landscape Hessen Kassel
  • Figure after plastering in the Académie, whereabouts unknown (Hanover, StA)

literature

  • Sylva van der Heyden: Nahl, (Johann) Wilhelm , in: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (Hrsg.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 213–214.
personal data
SURNAME Nahl, Johann Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, etcher and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH June 1880
Place of death kassel