Karl Christian Aubel
Karl Christian Aubel (born November 19, 1796 in Kassel ; † February 23, 1882 there ) was a German portrait painter, academy professor and gallery inspector.
Life
Aubel was trained as a draftsman and painter at the Kassel Art Academy around 1817 . From 1819 to 1823 he stayed in Paris for further studies. Aubel became a student at the École des Beaux-Arts and continued his artistic education in Antoine-Jean Gros' studio .
A stay in Italy, in Florence, Perugia, Rome and Naples can be documented between 1824 and 1832. In 1835 he was one of the co-founders of the Kunstverein für Kurhessen . On October 16, 1831, he married Wilhelmine Goltz. In 1832 Aubel returned to Kassel, where he initially worked as a drawing teacher. In 1833 he became a professor at the Art Academy in Kassel.
In 1834 his son Hermann Aubel was born, who became a landscape painter. In 1837 Carl Aubel saw the light of day, the inventor of a process for heliographic reproduction. The daughter Christine Rosalie Aubel married the architect August Carl Lange on August 5, 1861 .
One of Aubel's best-known works is the restoration of the double doors of the Marien and Katharinen altars in the Elisabethkirche in Marburg (1842). Between 1844 and 1877, Aubel was then inspector of the Kassel picture gallery.
Works
Artistic works created in Paris:
- Portrait of Gustav Adolf Michaelis , oil on canvas, around 1821, whereabouts unknown
- Portrait of a lady , whereabouts unknown
literature
- Hans Vollmer : Aubel, Karl Christian . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 223 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Aubel, Karl Christian . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 5, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22745-0 , p. 567.
- Tino Mager: Aubel, Karl Christian . 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. 6-8.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paris, Archives nationales, AJ 52 243, Registres matricules des élèves des sections de peinture et sculpture, 1807–1841, no. 746.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aubel, Karl Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait painter, academy professor and gallery inspector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1796 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1882 |
| Place of death | kassel |