Karl Eduard Biermann

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Karl Eduard Biermann (born July 26, 1803 in Berlin ; † June 16, 1892 there ) was a German painter .

Life

Eduard Biermann came from a family of craftsmen. After an apprenticeship at the Royal Porcelain Factory in Berlin , he studied later at the Berlin Academy and decorative and landscape painting. a. with Johann Gerst and Karl Wilhelm Gropius . At first he worked as a porcelain and decorative painter, but then turned exclusively to landscape painting. He is considered to be one of the first representatives of landscape watercolor painting in Berlin. He was a member of the Berlin Masonic Lodge " Zum Pilgrim ".

The Young Trapper (1863)

Study trips took him to the Rhine , Switzerland , Tyrol and Italy in the late 1820s . The impressions gained there were reflected in his works. From 1842 he taught landscape drawing at the Berlin Building Academy and was appointed professor in 1844. One of his students was Hermann Gemmel . From 1847 Biermann participated in the painting of the Egyptian Court and the Greek Hall in the Neues Museum in Berlin.

Karl Eduard Biermann died on June 16, 1892 at the age of 88 in Berlin and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Works (selection)

  • Living room of Crown Princess Elisabeth in the Berlin City Palace . Watercolor, 1828. Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg
  • Finstermünz Pass in Tyrol . 1830, oil on canvas, 95 × 72.5 cm. National Gallery Berlin
  • Wetterhorn . 1830, National Gallery Berlin
  • Burgeis Monastery in Tyrol . 1832, National Gallery Berlin
  • Waterfall at Tivoli . 1832; Oil on canvas (laid on cardboard), 57.5 cm × 42 cm, SPSG
  • Area near Finstermünz (Tyrol) . 1834, Wiesbaden Museum
  • View v. Florence , 1834, Hermitage St. Petersburg
  • Eight scenes from Goethe's “Faust” . Lithographs of Karl Friedrich Schinkel's stage designs for the staging of Prince Anton Radziwiłł and his music, Berlin 1836
  • View of Potsdam with casino and garrison church , watercolor, 1842. Kunsthalle Bremen
  • The hospital Bethany . Watercolor, 1846. 22.4 cm × 31.2 cm, SPSG, Potsdam
  • Copy of the cathedral over a city after Karl Friedrich Schinkel , Neue Pinakothek Munich
  • Wall paintings of the New Museum in Berlin (from approx. 1847)
    • The quarries of Silfilis . In the Egyptian court
    • The obelisks in the small temple courtyard at Karnak . In the Egyptian court
    • Courtyard of the Temple of Edfu in the Egyptian Court
    • Philae Island in the Egyptian Court
    • Syracuse in the Greek Hall
  • Borsig's mechanical engineering institute in Berlin . 1847, oil on canvas, 110 cm × 161.5 cm, Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation.
  • Borsig workshop at the Oranienburger Tor . 1847, watercolor.
  • Potsdam-Sanssouci, Villa Illaire . Around 1849, sepia ink drawing, 18.4 cm × 27.2 cm, Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg.

  • The Finstermünz Pass in Tyrol (1830)

  • Borsig’s mechanical engineering institute in Berlin (1847)

  • The forecourt of the Temple of Edfu, steel engraving by T. Heawood after Karl Eduard Biermann

  • Philae Island , steel engraving by Albert Henry Payne after Karl Eduard Biermann

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 299.

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personal data
SURNAME Biermann, Karl Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1892
Place of death Berlin