Julius Zielke

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Palatine Hill in Rome

Christian Julius Zielke , also Julius Zielcke (born November 8, 1826 in Danzig , † February 23, 1907 in Rome ) was a German landscape and vedute painter of the German Romantic period .

Life

Julius Zielke was the son of a master painter and studied from 1845 to 1851 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow . In 1848 he was one of the founding members of the Malkasten artists' association . When Schadow had his service anniversary at the art academy on November 30, 1851, the artists of the paint box celebrated him with a Schadowfest. On this occasion, he was also honored an artist album. Zielke made his contribution with the drawing Great Landscape .

In 1852 Zielke traveled to Rome with the writer Joseph Victor von Scheffel , who wanted to devote himself to painting, and settled there. He led a withdrawn life and devoted himself entirely to a romantic landscape painting. His motifs in oil and watercolor , but also drawings , were mostly from the near or far area of ​​Rome, Naples, Capris, Sicily and Northern Italy. His studio was in Via dei Maroniti No. 4 and his private apartment was in Via dei Greci No. 3. In 1869 he became an honorary member of the German Artists' Association , a popular meeting place for German Romans and travelers to Rome at the time. In 1907, one of the oldest German artists in Rome, who had lived there for 55 years, died without relatives or heirs. His grave is in the Protestant cemetery in Rome .

Works (selection)

Casa Baldi , Olevano Romano - an engraving made from a sketch by Zielke in the journal Die Gartenlaube , 1874
  • Great Landscape , 1851
  • From the banks of the Tiber in Rome
  • The temple ruins of Paestum
  • In a port in southern Italy
  • Roman street scene
  • From the Hall of Octavia in Rome (Old Fish Market)

Web links

Commons : Julius Zielke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig Pollak: Roman Memoirs: Artists, Art Lovers and Scholars 1893-1943 , L'Erma di Bretschneider, Rome, 1994, pp. 75 to 77
  2. ^ Column necrologist: Julius Zielke in Kunstchronik , weekly magazine for arts and crafts , No. 18, March 8, 1907, 1906/1907, column 280
  3. ^ Protestant Cemetery, Rome: Stone 2183
  4. ^ Katharina Bott: The Schadow-Album of the Düsseldorf academy students from 1851, CoCon-Verlag, Hanau 2009 ISBN 978-3-937774-59-6
  5. From the banks of the Tiber in Rome: View of the Angel Bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo