Karl Becker (painter)

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Karl Becker
Karl Becker (photography, from: Catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1897 )

Karl Ludwig Friedrich Becker (born December 18, 1820 in Berlin ; † December 20, 1900 there ) was a German history painter .

Life

Karl Becker was a student at the Berlin Academy from 1837 to 1840. He continued his training in August von Kloeber's studio . In 1841 he participated in the cardboard boxes for Schinkel's frescoes for the vestibule of the Altes Museum in Berlin and later in their execution under Peter von Cornelius . During his studies in Munich he took part in the painting of the Church of St. Boniface under Heinrich Maria von Hess . In 1842 he won a scholarship as a prize in academic competition, which enabled him to stay in Paris in 1843 and then in Rome from 1844 to 1847 . Returning to Berlin, he executed five paintings in the Niobidensaal of the Neues Museum . He reached the maturity of his portrayal in Venice, which he visited in 1853. His most important works were based on the model of Paolo Veronese and other Venetian masters. Two of his pictures belong to the collection of the Berlin National Gallery .

In 1860 he became a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts , Section for the Fine Arts. From 1882 to 1895 he was president of the academy, then its honorary president until his death.

Karl Becker died in Berlin in 1900, just two days after his 80th birthday, and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Works (selection)

  • Youth self-portrait 1839; exhibited: '100 Years of Berlin Art', Association of Berlin Artists, Berlin 1929 (exhibition cat., no. 63; owner: Miss Eva and Christine Becker); Kate glasses: The portrait in Berlin Biedermeier . Berlin 1932, plate 35.
  • The Return of Tobias (1840); exhibited: Academic Art Exhibition, Berlin 1840 (exhib.-cat., no. 35)
  • Cimabue finds the shepherd boy Giotto, drawing a sheep from his flock (1840); exhibited: Academic Art Exhibition, Berlin 1840 (exhibition cat., no. 36)
  • Oedipus, fleeting and blinded at the entrance to the grove of the Eumenides, cursed Polynices in 1842; exhibited: Academy Art Exhibition, Berlin 1842 (exhibition cat., no. 42)
  • Cupid abducts Psyche (1844); issued: Akad. exhibition, Berlin 1844 (exhibition cat., no. 33)
  • Bacchus and Ariadne 1845; exhibited: Akad. Art Exhibition, Berlin 1846.
  • Wall paintings in the Niobidensaal of the Neues Museum in Berlin (1847 1855):
  • Belisarius as a beggar , oil, 1850, Lower Saxony State Museum , Hanover
  • The Senator's Jewelry Dealer , 1855; Former P. Ravené collection, Berlin ( directory of the Ravené painting collection in Berlin . Troeitzsch & Sohn, Berlin 1879, No. 6)
  • Lady with Greyhound , oil, 1858, Milwaukee Art Museum
  • Venetian Carnival Scene ( Carnival Festival at the Doge of Venice ), 1859; Oil on canvas, 129 × 213 cm, National Gallery Berlin
  • The Bravo ( Venetian robber baron ); exhibited: Akad. Art Exhibition, Berlin 1864; Oil on canvas, 84.5 × 66.5 cm, private collection
  • Emperor Karl V with Jakob Fugger , 1866; Oil on canvas, 101 × 127 cm, National Gallery Berlin
  • Celebration of the birth of a Nuremberg councilor , (1869); Exhibited: Akad. Art Exhibition, Berlin 1870, Breslau Art Exhibition 1871, property of the City Museum in Königsberg. Reproduction: Wood engraving by Ludwig Heitland , in: Daheim, 1872.1, p. 53.
  • Young lady by the fireplace reading to a cavalier , 1869; Oil on canvas, 101 × 94.5 cm; formerly City Museum Stettin, Maurer Collection
  • Self-Portrait with a Black Slouch Hat Bust, 1871; Oil on canvas, 74 × 61 cm, oval; Ref .: C. Becker se ipse 1871; Berlin, Berlin Museum; exhibited: '100 Years of Berlin Art', Association of Berlin Artists, Berlin 1929 (exhibition cat., no. 64); Bes .: Miss Eva and Christine Becker. - Critical catalog of the paintings in the Berlin Museum 1994, No. 18 (ill.)
  • Portrait of Eva Becker, the artist's wife in a rust-colored silk dress with a white cloak, around 1871; Oil on canvas, 74.5 × 60 cm, oval; Berlin, Berlin Museum; exhibited: '100 Years of Berlin Art', Association of Berlin Artists, Berlin 1929 (exhibition cat., no. 65), 70 × 56 cm; Bes .: Miss Eva and Christine Becker. - Critical catalog of the paintings in the Berlin Museum 1994, No. 19 (ill.)
  • Dürer shows his Venetian artist colleagues his studies , 1872; exhibited: 48th Academic Art Exhibition, Berlin 1872.
  • Ave Maria (serenade of two women in front of a picture of Mary); bez.ul: CBecker 1880; exhibited: Great Berlin Art Exhibition, Berlin 1897 (exhibition cat., no. 71); Reproduction: wood engraving, in: Schorers Familienblatt, Vol. 4, 1883.
  • Pope Julius II visits the excavated statue of Apollo from the Belvedere , 1887; (1909) Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA; exhibited: Academy Art Exhibition, Berlin 1887 (exhibition cat., no. 30)
  • Study for a painting in a room in the Palazzo Pisani in Venice ; exhibited: Munich annual exhibition in the Glaspalast, 1900 (exhibition cat., no. 41)

literature

  • Adolf Rosenberg : The Berlin School of Painting 1819–1879 . Berlin 1879, p. 125 ff.
  • Julius Meyer, Hermann Lücke, Hugo von Tschudi (eds.): General Artists Lexicon , Volume 3, Leipzig 1885, pp. 268–269 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Friedrich Pecht . In: Die Kunst für Alle 1, 1885/86, and 5, 1889/90, p. 156.
  • Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history . Volume 1, 1, Dresden 1895, pp. 60-62 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Intellectual Germany at the end of the 19th century: Encyclopedia of German intellectual life in biographical sketches . Volume 1 The visual artists , Leipzig / Berlin 1898 (autobiography)
  • Becker, Carl (Friedrich Ludwig) . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 145–146 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Max Wingenroth . In: German Biographical Yearbook 1911, pp. 503–505.
  • Kate glasses: Berlin portraitist . Berlin 1929, p. 13.
  • Marianne Bernhard: Lost Works of Painting . Munich 1965, p. 28 ( Carnival in the Doge's Palace ).
  • Irmgard Wirth: Berlin painting in the 19th century . Berlin 1990.
  • Helmut Börsch-Supan : Becker, Karl Ludwig Friedrich . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , p. 170.
  • Jennifer Falckenberg: Becker, Carl . In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 10–12.

Web links

Commons : Carl Ludwig Friedrich Becker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 299.
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Karl Ludwig Friedrich (full name); Becker, Carl Ludwig Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and President of the Berlin Academy
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th December 1900
Place of death Berlin