Julius Wengel

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Peace on earth and goodwill to people ,
watercolor facsimile, 1895

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).

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Web links

Commons : Jules Wengel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 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 )
  2. ^ A b Wengel, Jules, Étaples (Pas de Calais). In: Great Berlin Art Exhibition, catalog 1893, p. 88 (digitized version)
  3. Wengel, Jules, Attin-Montreuil. In: Great Berlin Art Exhibition, Catalog 1895, p. 99 (digitized version)
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ Exhibitions and collections: Berlin… Society of German Watercolorists at Gurlitt. In: Die Kunst für alle , vol. 11, 1895/96, p. 235 (digitized version)