Karl Beckmann (painter)

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Karl Friedrich Ferdinand Beckmann (born March 23, 1799 in Berlin ; † October 2, 1859 there ) was a German landscape and architecture painter .

Life

Karl Beckmann from Berlin completed an apprenticeship at the Royal Prussian Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin from around 1813 to 1815 . He later attended the drawing classes at the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin. Around 1820 Beckmann was then a student in Wilhelm Wach's studio in Berlin.

From 1824 to 1828 there is evidence of a stay in Paris, during which Beckmann probably studied painting with Jean-Victor Bertin . Beckmann then stayed in Rome from 1828 to 1832 before becoming a teacher of architecture and perspective at the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin from 1837. There he was appointed professor in 1846.

literature

  • Frauke Josenhans: Beckmann, Karl (Friedrich Ferdinand) , in: Savoy, Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (Hrsg.): Pariser apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 , de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 12-14.

Individual evidence

  1. Berlin, PrAdK, 0420, fol. 6, 8 [reports on the students of the plaster drawing class, the ornament class, the Eleven Institute, 1812–1868].