Julius Moser (painter)

Julius Moser (born November 25, 1805 in Gumbinnen , † May 24, 1879 in Berlin ) was a German portrait , history and genre painter .

life and work

Julius Moser attended high school in Königsberg. From 1831 to 1836 he studied history and genre painting at the Berlin Art Academy . He was a student of Wilhelm Hensel . In the years 1837 to 1840 he stayed in Paris and was 1837-1838 student of Léon Cogniet and 1838-1840 student of Paul Delaroche . From 1840 to 1848 he was in Rome. Moser was a member of the Ponte Molle Society and was one of the founders of the German Artists' Association . He is buried in the Jewish cemetery Schönhauser Allee in Berlin.

Moser is primarily known as a portraitist of Berlin's Jewish bourgeoisie in the mid-19th century. He is a typical representative of the Biedermeier period .

literature

• Franz Landsberge: Julius Moser - A forgotten Jewish painter . In: CV-Zeitung, No. 13, 2nd supplement, April 1, 1937.
• Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976) 7, 562
• Jennifer Falckenberg: Moser, Julius , in: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (Hrsg.): Pariser 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. 204–206.

Works (selection)

• Portrait of a Greek girl, 1838, oil / canvas, whereabouts unknown (Berlin, PrAdK a, fol. 29–32v.)
• The sons of Jacob call Benjamin to Egypt, 1838, sketch, whereabouts unknown (ibid.)
• The Pied Piper in Hameln, 1838, sketch, whereabouts unknown (ibid.)
• Lucrèce sur la place publique de Collatie after Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay, 1838, sketch, whereabouts unknown (ibid.)
• Loth and his family led by angels from Sodom according to Rubens, 1840, whereabouts unknown (Berlin, PrAdK a, fol. 41–43v.)

Web links

• Julius Moser's painting in the holdings of the Jewish Museum Berlin
• ULAN
• Works by and documents on Julius Moser in the holdings of the State Collections of Prussian Cultural Heritage