Karl Josef Ignatz Mosler

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Karl Josef Ignatz Mosler , also Moßler (born January 18, 1788 in Koblenz , † February 18, 1860 in Düsseldorf ), was a German painter and art historian .

Life

Mosler Secretary of the Academy and Professor of Art History, Royal Art Academy, 1843

After attending the Koblenz grammar school, he was a student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from May 1804 . From November 26, 1813 he studied history painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . From 1816 to 1820 he stayed in Italy, from the summer of 1816 to the beginning of October 1819 in Rome , where on April 29, 1818 he took part in the festival at the Villa Schultheiss .

On October 17, 1821, in Koblenz, he married Marie Helene Therese Settegast († 1826), a cousin of Joseph Görres and an aunt of the painter Joseph Anton Settegast , who later was his student in Düsseldorf for a time.

In August 1821 he was called to Düsseldorf and he supported his childhood friend Peter von Cornelius , who had been director of the Düsseldorf Art Academy since 1819 , in reforming it. In the following year he was appointed professor and was from 1821 to 1855 teacher of art history , secretary and around 1825 interim director of the academy. Mosler owned house No. 12 (previously 941) on the northern side of the Schwanenmarkt .

In 1829 he was one of the co-founders of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia and was a member of the Malkasten art association founded in 1848 .

His sons Dominik Mosler and Heinrich Mosler , from his second marriage to Eva Vogt, studied under him, Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Wilhelm von Schadow at the academy and became painters. The son Nikola Mosler became pastor in Boppard and the daughter Marie Nonne in the Order of the Daughters of the Holy Cross .

Works

  • The Nibelunge Noth, heroic poem of the twelfth century. Studies and selected pieces to produce the original work . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1864 (continued posthumously and published by his son, Nikola Mosler, Google Books )
  • Ramboux Museum. Replicas to visualize Christian painting in Italy from the earliest to the most artistic epoch at the Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf . Voss, Düsseldorf 1851, ULB Tirol, 1851, 119.184
  • Constitutional principles of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia . Düsseldorf 1841

literature

Individual evidence

  1. 00251 Carl Mosler , Matriculation Book 1809–1841 of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
  2. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 409
  3. Deaths - April 20, 1826: Marie Helene Therese Settegast, wife of the professor at the local Königl. Art Academy, Carl Jos. I. Mosler, aged 39 (childbed fever) Ddorf , in Düsseldorfer Zeitung (No. 113), from April 24, 1826
  4. October 1825: Mosler, professor, interim in charge of the management of the academy , in the official gazette for the Düsseldorf administrative region, public gazette No. 116, 1825.
  5. Schwanenmarkt: Of the houses on the northern side, No. 12 Carl Mosler , H. Ferber: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf , 1890
  6. ^ Mosler, Carl, professor at the art academy, Schwanenmarkt 941 , in address calendar and housing advertiser for the city of Düsseldorf and the suburbs, 1847, p. 101
  7. ^ Mosler, Carl, professor; Mosler, Heinrich, painter: Schwanenmarkt 941 , in address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, 1856, p. 119
  8. ^ Biography Dominik Mosler (born November 29, 1822 in Düsseldorf; † November 13, 1880 in Münster) , on MHK , accessed on February 22, 2017
  9. House Schwanenmarkt 12 put up for auction. Debtors: 1. Married history painters Heinrich Mosler and Margaretha née Bingen from here; 2. Maria Mosler, nun in the order of the Sisters of the Cross, residing in the monastery "Johanna zu Waremme" near Liège; 3. Dr. Nikolaus Mosler, pastor in Boppard, now living in Konstanz , in the official gazette for the Düsseldorf administrative region. Public scoreboard. No. 30, year 1880, p. 237