Karl Christian Schmidt

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Karl Christian Schmidt (born March 24, 1808 in Stuttgart ; † November 15, 1892 ibid) was a German history and portrait painter and lithographer .

Life

Schmidt was the son of a master weaver. Before 1826 he was a student of Johann Gotthard von Müller in Stuttgart, between 1826 and 1830 he took lessons in portrait painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Peter von Cornelius . Around 1834/35 he was a student of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in Paris, after 1835 he was a teacher of shadow theory and perspective at the Royal Art School in Stuttgart.

Works (selection)

  • 1832: Lithograph of the painting Apollo among the shepherds by Gottlieb Schick
  • 1839: Appearance of the angels to the shepherds
  • 1843: Daughter of the landlady based on Ludwig Uhland's poem The landlady little daughter
Mary and John at the tomb of Christ

Fonts

  • Proportion key: New system of the proportions of the human body for visual artists, anatomists and friends of the natural sciences . Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1849.
  • Proportion theory of the human body, based on the axis system first published in its proportion key. Tuebingen 1882.

literature

  • Adolf Zeising: Historical part: Carl Schmidt . In: New doctrine of the proportions of the human body, developed from a previously unrecognized basic morphological law that pervades all of nature and art and accompanied by a complete historical overview of the previous systems . R. Weigel, Leipzig 1854, p. 83-88 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - illustrations p. 178, figure 40 [skeleton] and p. 234, figure 76 [skull]).
  • Karl Klunzinger, Adolf Friedrich Seubert, Friedrich Müller: Schmidt, Karl Christian . In: The artists of all times and peoples ... Volume 3 : M-Z . Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1864, p. 471 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Schmidt, Karl Christian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 158 .
  • Tino Mager: Schmidt, 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, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 259-260.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Ziegler, Joachim Hahn, City Archives (Stuttgart): Friedhöfe in Stuttgart. Volume 5: Fangelsbach Cemetery. (= Publications of the Archives of the City of Stuttgart. Volume 61). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-608-91641-5 , pp. 92, 139.
  2. ^ Schmidt or Schmid, Carl Christian . In: Georg Kaspar Nagler (eds.): New general artist Lexicon or messages from the life and works of painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, die cutter, lithographer, illustrator, Medals and Ivory, etc . tape 15 : Santi, Antonio Schoute, Jan . Fleischmann, Munich 1845, p. 295 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ↑ 01222 Karl Christian Schmidt . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 1: 1809-1841 . Munich 1841 ( matrikel.adbk.de , daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  4. ↑ Morgenblatt for educated reader . No. 87 . JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, October 31, 1843, p. 363 ( books.google.de ).
  5. ↑ Ursula Kuttler-Merz: Evangelical Church in Rottenburg. State gift in old Gothic style In: Neckar Chronicle. June 10, 2006 ( neckar-chronik.de ).
  6. ↑ Partial digitization
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Karl Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1892
Place of death Stuttgart