Karl Ludwig Kaaz

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Karl Ludwig Kaaz, 1809
(painting by Anton Graff )

Karl Ludwig Kaaz (also Karl Ludwig Katz , born January 22, 1773 in Karlsruhe , † July 14, 1810 in Dresden ) was a German painter who was best known for his landscapes.

Life

Caroline Susanne Graff, daughter of Anton Graff from 1805 wife of Kaaz

Karl Ludwig Kaaz was the son of the taker Georg Jakob Katz (1723-1775) and his wife Eleonora Friederike († 1784). Because of the early death of his parents, Karl Ludwig grew up in an orphanage in Pforzheim from 1784 . He was trained first as a scribe and then as a bookbinder. In 1792 he moved to La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, where his sister was married to a gold goods manufacturer. Here he was able to train in copperplate engraving and miniature painting . After an interim stay at the Stuttgart Art Academy , he became a student at the Dresden Art Academy in 1797 , where he received lessons from Johann Christian Klengel (1751-1824) and Jacob Wilhelm Mechau (1745-1808), among others .

In Dresden he frequented various families, including that of the painter Anton Graff (1736–1813), who was also his teacher. Kaaz was supported by the poet Charlotte Elisabeth Konstantia von der Recke (1754–1833). In 1801 it enabled him to go on a study trip with Traugott Leberecht Pochmann (1762–1830) and Graff's son, the landscape painter Carl Anton Graff (1774–1832), and which took him via Paris to Italy. He only returned from here to Dresden in 1804 with numerous suggestions and sketches.

Mural landscape on Nemisee in the stone hall of Frohburg Castle

In the period that followed, gouaches , watercolors and wash pen drawings as well as ideal landscape paintings were created on their basis . His idealized landscapes bathed in sunlight convey serene peace. In 1805 he made an oil painting of the Italian lake Nemi into a large fresco in Frohburg Castle. In 1807 he won a prize awarded by the Stuttgart Academy with a landscape painting. The picture was bought by the Crown Prince of Württemberg . Kaazen's Dresden students included the painter and graphic artist Ferdinand Johann von Olivier (1785–1841).

In 1805 Kaaz married Anton Graff's daughter Caroline Susanne (* 1781). The couple had two daughters, who were brought up by their brother-in-law Carl Anton Graff after the early death of their father.

Kaaz was well acquainted with Goethe (1749-1832) and was valued by him. After a first encounter in 1805, both met in 1808 on the occasion of a cure in Karlsbad , where Kaaz Goethe demonstrated various painting techniques and both worked together. When Kaaz stayed in Weimar in 1809 to give drawing lessons at court, he lived in Goethe's house. He then spent several weeks with Goethe in Jena . He also had good connections with Schiller (1759–1805). For his drama Wilhelm Tell he created the picture “I am liberated”.

Kaazen's last years were marked by illness that was not relieved even by several recreational trips. He died in front of his easel in 1810 .

  • Early self-portrait

  • Ideal landscape with a shepherd couple

  • Landscape with a waterfall

  • Idealized landscape, view of Ischia

  • Mountainous southern landscape

  • From the Grassische Villa to the Plauen reason

Works (selection)

  • Ideal landscape with a shepherd couple , gouache, 1797
  • Landscape with a waterfall , oil on canvas, 1800, Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister
  • Italian Landscape at Lake Nemisee , oil on canvas, 1805, also as a larger fresco in Frohburg Castle
  • View of Ischia , gouache and watercolor on paper mounted on cardboard, 1808
  • View from the Grassische Villa to Plauenschen Grund near Dresden , oil on canvas, 1807
  • Roman landscape near Tivoli , oil on cardboard, Frankfurt Goethe Museum
  • I am liberated , at Wilhelm Tell, around 1810

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Ludwig Kaaz  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Goethe's correspondence in 1808. Retrieved October 23, 2017 .
  2. ^ Goethe's correspondence in 1809. Accessed on October 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Tell our German fatherland. Retrieved October 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kaaz, Karl Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaaz, Carl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1810
Place of death Dresden