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Justus Elias Kasten (born July 31, 1774 in Hanover ; † August 3, 1855 there ) was a German painter .

Life

According to the Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon and the Stadtlexikon Hannover, nothing is known about the origins of Justus Elias Kasten, his youth and training . However, the book Alt-Hannover reported differently : According to this, Justus Elias Kasten (born August 1, 1774 in Hannoversch-Münden ) was born as the son of the farewell sergeant Jobst Kasten and was mentioned in 1786 by the painter Johann Heinrich Ramberg .

In 1833 he became a court theater painter in Hanover and since then has lived in Kniehauerstrasse . In 1842 he became a member of the Hanover Art Association . In 1851, Kasten held the title of courtyard decoration painter who lived on Grosse Wallstrasse .

Kasten is considered a likely teacher of the Hanoverian drawing teacher Wilhelm Kretschmer .

Works

(Old) St. Nicolaifriedhof (from the north) Gouache from 1820

Hanover around 1825, on the right the kitchen garden pavilion and the brick wall of the kitchen garden,
painting by Justus Elias Kasten

Some of Kastens landscape paintings are in the possession of Hanoverian museums, including

• a view of the (old) St. Nicolaifriedhof in Hanover, a gouache from 1820 in the possession of the Lower Saxony State Museum
• The Kleine Bult , gouache from 1820 in the possession of the Historisches Museum Hannover

literature

• Ferdinand Stuttmann: Justus Elias Kasten , ( Small Hanoverian Art History / Exhibition [s] in the Lower Saxony State Gallery, Hanover , Vol. 5), Hanover 1955
• Hugo Thielen : box, (2) Justus Elias. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 195 and others, online via Google books
• Hugo Thielen: box, Justus Elias. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 340.
• Bernhard Dörries, Helmut Plath : Kasten, Justus Elias. In: Old Hanover. The history of a city in contemporary images 1500–1900 , 4th, improved edition. Heinr. Feesche Verlag, Hannover 1977, ISBN 3-87223-0247 , illus. P. 140 and other.

See also

• List of Hanoverian purveyors to the court

Web links

Commons : Justus Elias Kasten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hans-Michael Krüger (responsible): Julius Elias Kasten: Landscape painting (around 1825) (probably with the wrong spelling of the first name), analysis of a painting with a view from Linden to Hanover on the website Lebensraum-linden.de of the Faust cultural center

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Hugo Thielen: Box ... (see literature)
2. ↑ see literature
3. ↑ ^{a b} Bernhard Dörries, Helmut Plath: Kasten, Justus Elias. In: Alt-Hannover ... (see literature)
4. ↑ The St. Nikolai Cemetery and the Neustädter Friedhof ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PDF brochure of the state capital Hanover, Grünflächenamt archive, Hanover: March 2003, illustration on page 8  
5. ↑ ibid., P. 137.