Karl August Aerttinger

Girl at the spinet

Karl August Aerttinger (born April 17, 1803 in Munich ; † April 30, 1876 there ) was a German battle , genre and landscape painter .

Aerttinger studied at the Royal Art School Augsburg with Klemens von Zimmermann , from October 27, 1827 history painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich and from 1830 to 1831 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris .

After graduating, he worked as a portrait painter. In 1846 he came to Vienna , where he painted the imperial family on horseback and portrayed Archduke Karl with all the Austrian generals from 1809.

During the Hungarian War of Independence he joined the Russian army as a battle painter in the Komorn Fortress in 1849 . With Russian troops he came to the Russian occupied Warsaw , where he worked for five years as court painter to the Russian governor of Poland and Prince of Warsaw Ivan Fyodorovich Paskewitsch . He painted battle pictures of the Persian campaign (1826 to 1828) based on historical sources. In 1853 he also created numerous battle pictures of the prince's Crimean campaign . In 1854 he returned to Germany and since then has dealt with genre and landscape painting.

literature

Aerttinger, Karl August . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 105 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Saur General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples: 1999–2000, vol. 1, p. 455
Friedrich von Boetticher : "Painters' Works of the 19th Century", Leipzig, 1892

Individual evidence

↑ Thieme-Becker speaks of the Russian-Persian War , which took place from 1826 to 1828 and in which the artist could not take part.

Web links

Commons : Karl August Aerttinger - Collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Aerttinger, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landscape, battle and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 17, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	April 30, 1876
Place of death	Munich

[1] Thieme-Becker speaks of the Russian-Persian War , which took place from 1826 to 1828 and in which the artist could not take part.