Karl Mücke
Karl Emil Mücke , also Carl Mücke (born March 13, 1847 in Düsseldorf ; † April 27, 1923 there ), was a German genre and animal painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Mücke was born as the son of the painter Heinrich Mücke in Düsseldorf. From 1844 his father was a teacher of anatomy at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf , from 1848 a professor. At his father's academy, where he taught until 1867, Mücke studied from 1863 to 1870. After that he was a private student of the genre painter Wilhelm Sohn for a while . His cousin, Karl Rudolf Sohn , who was also a private student there, painted a portrait of Mücke in 1875. Like his father and almost all other painters in Düsseldorf, Mücke joined the artists' association Malkasten . From the 1870s to around 1890 he often stayed in the Netherlands , from 1877 to 1888 in Volendam , North Holland , where he found the motifs that were characteristic of his painting: genre representations of Dutch people in situations of everyday family life, often of women and men Children in traditional costumes , in the company of cats and dogs, in old Dutch interiors or by the sea. Mückes works were represented at exhibitions in Düsseldorf, Munich and Berlin. In 1889 he lived at Rethelstrasse 29 in Düsseldorf- Düsseltal .
Works (selection)
- Children playing on the beach with dog and goats
- Practice early
- Waiting for the loved one
- Mother's happiness in front of the fireplace
- Chat in front of the farm , together with Ludwig Fay
- The homecoming , 1896, together with Ludwig Fay
literature
- Mosquito, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 212 .
Web links
- Carl Mücke , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Karl Emil Mücke , auction results on the portal artnet.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, pp. 275, 277
- ↑ Portrait of the painter Karl Emil Mücke, 1875 , website in the artnet.com portal , accessed on February 14, 2016
- ↑ Inventory list on the malkasten.org portal , accessed on February 14, 2016
- ↑ Carl Mücke , entry in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf 1889 , accessed on February 14, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mosquito, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mücke, Karl Emil (full name); Mosquito, Carl Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genre and animal painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1923 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |