Joseph Archer Crowe
Sir Joseph Archer Crowe (born October 25, 1825 in London , † September 6, 1896 in Gamburg ) was an English art historian and writer, illustrator, watercolorist, draftsman and diplomat.
Life
His father Eyre Evans Crowe (1799–1868) was a journalist and historian.
Joseph Archer Crowe was the brother of the painter Eyre Crowe and received his first artistic lessons in Paris in 1836 with Charles Etienne Brasseur , then in 1840 with Paul Delaroche along with his brother and returned to London in 1853. Now he turned to writing, writing for the Morning Chronicle and the Daily News .
He studied Dutch art and visited Belgium and Cologne in 1846, Berlin and Vienna in 1847, then northern Italy, on which trip he met Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle in Germany . Together with this he worked on the work The early Flemish painters in London , after whose completion in the manuscript (1853) they immediately began with the preparatory studies for the history of Italian painting. An interruption took place because Crowe went to Turkey and the Crimea as a draftsman and correspondent from 1853-56. On his return trip he stayed in Italy to study art, and after returning home he had the history of old Dutch painting appear in print in 1857 (2nd edition, London, 1875).
In 1857 Crowe went to Bombay as director of the art school , but had to leave India two years later for health reasons, whereupon he became the Times correspondent for the Franco-Italian-Austrian war . In 1860 the British government appointed him consul general in Leipzig, and in 1872 in Düsseldorf. In addition to his official and political activities, he used his leisure hours and vacation trips to pursue the art theoretically and practically. On May 21, 1890, he was knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George .
His main works with Cavalcaselle are: The New history of painting in Italy (Lond. 1864–72, 6 vols .; translated into German by Max Jordan , Leipzig 1869–76); The life of Titian (London 1876; German from Jordan, Leipzig 1877) and Raphael (London 1883; German from Karl Aldenhoven , Leipzig 1883). restricts.
He was married to Asta von Barby (1841-1908) and the father of Eyre Crowe .
literature
- General Artist Lexicon , Volume 22, 1999, p. 454.
- Crowe, Sir Joseph Archer . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 7 : Constantine Pavlovich - Demidov . London 1910, p. 514 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph Archer Crowe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Joseph Archer Crowe at arthistoricum.net - the context of the history of science and digitized works in the themed portal "History of Art History"
- Family tree at eyrecrowe.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsches Reichsgesetzblatt Volume 1872, No. 32, p. 408
- ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 1, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 375.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crowe, Joseph Archer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English art writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1896 |
| Place of death | Gamburg |