Karl Gillissen
Karl Gillissen , also Carl Gillissen (born April 23, 1842 in Aachen , † 1924 in Düsseldorf ), was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Gillissen first had to begin training as a mechanical engineer before he succeeded in allowing him to become a painter. In 1860 he went to the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp , where Nicaise de Keyser introduced him to war painting. In order to perfect himself, he joined the Légion Belge in 1864 , which supported the French intervention in Mexico and thus the Mexican Empire under Maximilian I from 1865 to 1867 . In 1866 Gillissen returned from the Mexican theater of war with a wound and continued his painting training in Düsseldorf. He tried to make a name for himself with Mexican motifs. His first picture, which became known during this time, is entitled The Guerrillas Are Coming . When the Franco-German War broke out in 1870 , he also took part. He used the experiences and views gained in this way for his military painting, which, according to contemporary criticism, was characterized by "an excellent landscape atmosphere and great liveliness of the depiction". Gillessen lived and died in Düsseldorf, where he was registered in 1889 at Adlerstrasse 32 and belonged to the Malkasten artists' association .
Works (selection)
- The guerrillas are coming , second half of the 1860s
- The morning after the battle
- Volunteer Nursing Scene
- At the outpost in front of Paris
- Indians before raiding a Mexican property
- Steppe hunters fleeing from a savannah fire
- Mexican gauchos catching the mustangs (Catching the Mustangs in the Mexican Savannah) , 1880
- Mexican horseman with a snow-capped volcano in the background , 1883
- Uhlan scouts , 1888
- Horsemen with mules in the Mexican prairie landscape
literature
- Hermann Alexander Müller (Ed.): Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 207 ( digitized version )
- Gillissen, Karl . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 43 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Carl Gillissen , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Karl Gillissen , Auction Results on artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry by Carl Gillessen in the address book of the Oberbürgermeisterei Düsseldorf, 1889 , website in the adressbuecher.genealogy.net portal , accessed on May 27, 2016
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the portal malkasten.org , accessed on May 27, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gillissen, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gillissen, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1924 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |