Julius Kost

Julius Kost (* 1807 in Meißen ; † June 16, 1888 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Kost studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1840 to 1843 he was a student in Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's landscape class . He was also a member of the Malkasten artists' association . Kost, who worked as a painter in Düsseldorf, created landscapes , cityscapes and genre pictures .

Works (selection)

View of the crane at the Old Harbor, Düsseldorf , 1861

• Motif by Trarbach (architectural picture), acquired at the exhibition of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia in 1848 from the widow of Franz von Spee
• The main guard on Burgplatz, Düsseldorf , before 1858
• View of the crane at the Old Harbor, Düsseldorf , 1861
• Haus Alleestraße 108 , pencil drawing, washed on paper, 1872

literature

• Kost, Julius . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 747.

Web links

Commons : Julius Kost  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernd Fischer, Heinz-Uwe Prichert: The landscape painter Friedrich August de Leuw 1817–1888 . Bergischer Geschichtsverein Solingen, Solingen 1988, ISBN 978-3-92562-606-7 , p. 11 (footnote)
2. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145
3. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on November 7, 2015
4. ^ Friedrich Eggers (ed.): Deutsches Kunstblatt . Verlag Rudolph and Theodor Oswald Weigel, Leipzig 1850, p. 192 ( Google Books )
5. ↑ Irene Markowitz: Poor painter - painter prince . Artist and society. Düsseldorf 1819–1918 . Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1980, p. 9
6. ↑ House Alleestraße 108 in Düsseldorf , website in the duesseldorf.de portal , accessed on November 7, 2015