Karl Georg Enslen

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Karl Georg Enslen (born September 20, 1792 in Vienna , † April 17, 1866 in Lille ) was a German travel painter.

Life

Enslen came to Oliva near Gdansk with his parents as a child . The restlessly traveling Enslen family probably came from southern Germany, where the Stuttgart-born father Johann Carl Enslen and his brother, the painter Gottfried Christian Enslen, raised spectacular figure balloons inspired by Montgolfière in Strasbourg in 1784 . In Danzig, Karl Georg Enslen attended the Danzig Art School from 1808 to 1811, which from 1809 was under the direction of Johann Adam Breysig . He then moved from 1813 to 1815 to the Academy of Arts in Berlin, where he became a student of Heinrich Gottlieb Eckert, Carl Ludwig Kuhbeil, the draftsman Johann Gottfried Niedlich and the history painter Karl Franz Jakob Heinrich Schumann.

A first trip through Germany together with his father, the showman and panorama designer Johann Carl Enslen, strengthened his artistic development as a landscape painter. He first exhibited at the academy exhibition, in 1818 in Munich and at Easter 1821 first panoramas at the Leipzig trade fair . In addition to vedoutes and brochures, he created more panoramas , which he turned to especially during a stay in Italy from 1822 to 1826.

In 1833 he was accepted as an extraordinary member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, and in 1844 he became a professor. His second stay in Italy followed from 1844 to 1847. From 1853 to 1857 he traveled through the countries of Scandinavia and from 1862 he worked in Belgium. His views of the capitals of Europe reached many German museums through the exhibitions of the Berlin Academy of the Arts from 1830 to 1844.

The Cathedral Museum in Lübeck has had a large collection of his culturally and historically valuable panoramas or round pictures (27 pieces) since 1891 , where they burned with the museum during the air raid on Lübeck in 1942. However, a copy of his approx. 5 m × 1 m panorama of Frankfurt am Main, made in Lübeck in 1909, has been preserved, which was integrated into the permanent exhibition of the Historical Museum there.

Enslen in recent exhibitions

  • Max Hasse : German Artists Draw in Italy 1780–1860: Exhibition Museums for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Graphics Collection, June 4 to August 13, 1972. Lübeck 1972.
  • Valentin Kockel : Pompei 360 °: i due panorami di Carl Georg Enslen del 1826 / Pompeji 360 °: the two panoramas by Carl Georg Enslen from 1826. Electa, Milan 2006, ISBN 88-370-4364-3 (text in German / ital.).

Fonts

  • Paris depicted in relief ... the famous Palais Royal is especially set up on a larger scale ...; Optical panoramas include: 1. The panorama of Paris…; an aerostatic colossal figure, representing a knight on horseback ... this art exhibition will only be on view for five days from tomorrow Friday June 27th to Tuesday July 1st. Düsseldorf 1817.
  • Guide on Enslen's picturesque journey in the room: 2nd order: return trip from Italy, with which this exhibition - only open for a short time - closes completely; (Opened daily in the lunchtime from 10 a.m. to 3 a.m. and in the evening from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. on the main floor of the house at ABC-Straße No. 45) Wörmer, Hamburg 1838.
  • Enslen's circular painting, new order, Heller & Rohm, [Frankfurt am Main, approx. 1850], 1 sheet.
  • Explanations of the perspective circular painting. Original recordings / painted by C. Enslen. Self-published, Berlin 1851.
  • Explanations of the picturesque depictions from Italy and the north / original photos painted by CG Enslen. DuMont-Schauberg, Cologne 1860.
  • Explanations of the picturesque depictions of a journey from Frankfurt am Main via Hamburg to Scandinavia and back, set up in Neue Kräme No. 28, on the first floor. Adelmann, Frankfurt a. M. [approx. 1860].

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Behrens: 175 years of charitable work. Lübeck 1965, pp. 95 ff. ( The collection of paintings, copperplate engravings and hand drawings ).
  2. ↑ Donation from the Landtag member Carl Ludwig Funck to the city of Frankfurt.
  3. ↑ Historical Museum Frankfurt .
  4. ↑ Gottfried Sello in the art calendar of the time : "Main character of the ... exhibition ... decidedly original panorama painter Karl Georg Enslen ..."

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personal data
SURNAME Enslen, Karl Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Enslen, Carl Georg; Ensslen, Carl Georg; Enßlen, Carl Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German travel painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1866
Place of death Lille