Julius Wengel
Julius Wilhelm Ludwig Wengel , from 1905 Jules Wengel (born May 30, 1865 in Heilbronn , † March 5, 1934 in France ), was a Franco-German genre and landscape painter. In 1905 he was naturalized in France.
Life
Julius Wengel studied at the Leipzig Art Academy and the Dresden Art Academy . After that, he initially worked in Dresden. In the 1890s he went to France and settled in Étaples- sur-Mer in the Pas-de-Calais department . In this small port town on the English Channel on the Côte d'Opale , an artist colony had formed from the 1880s , which consisted mainly of English and American artists. From about 1895 he lived in Attin, a place near Montreuil , like Étaples on the Canche River.
Wengel exhibited his pictures at the well-known German exhibitions, so in 1889 at the Berlin Academy Exhibition , in 1893 and 1895 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , the Dresden Watercolor Exhibition (Honorary Diploma 1890), the Saxon-Thuringian Trade Exhibition in Leipzig 1897 (silver medal) and the Art exhibitions of the Association of Austrian Artists (1898/99). From 1892 to 1905 his works were represented at the annual exhibitions organized by the Société nationale des beaux-arts in the Salon de Paris . In 1896 he became an associate member of the Société alongside Henri Le Sidaner , John Lavery and Eugène Chigot (1860–1923). He was a member of the Society of German Watercolorists .
Wengels motifs were genre scenes, portraits and landscapes - partly religious - with a penchant for symbolism and mysticism, sometimes referred to by a reviewer as "hazy fog and moonlight landscapes". He also worked as a watercolorist and illustrator. In 1895 he created the illustrations for “Taj Mahal”, a poem by the Swedish orientalist and translator Andrea Butenschön, and in 1896 for “Gulab Soubi”, a story by René Delmas de Pont-Jest (1829–1904).
literature
- Wengel, Julius . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942.
- Wengel, Julius. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, p. 996 ( archive.org ).
Web links
- Sur les pas des peintres de l′ecole d′Étaples - In the Footsteps of the Étaples School of Artists , Le Département de Pas-de-Calais, (PDF), p. 4.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Julius Wengel in Dresden A, Marschallstrasse 39, H. III. In: Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, catalog 1889, p. 135/136 (illustration of the work Gefallen )
- ^ A b Wengel, Jules, Étaples (Pas de Calais). In: Great Berlin Art Exhibition, catalog 1893, p. 88 (digitized version)
- ↑ Wengel, Jules, Attin-Montreuil. In: Great Berlin Art Exhibition, Catalog 1895, p. 99 (digitized version)
- ^ Catalog of the IV art exhibition of the Association of Austrian Visual Artists , 1899 , three works: 47th portrait; 57. The bridge of Étaples; 127. Psyche
- ^ Exhibitions and collections: Berlin… Society of German Watercolorists at Gurlitt. In: Die Kunst für alle , vol. 11, 1895/96, p. 235 (digitized version)
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SURNAME | Wengel, Julius |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wengel, Julius Wilhelm Ludwig Wengel (full name); Wengel, Jules |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-French genre and landscape painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1865 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn |
DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1934 |
Place of death | France |