Karl Schlesinger (painter)

Karl Schlesinger, photo by Arnold Overbeck , Gebr. G. & A. Overbeck in Düsseldorf

Chapel on the Moselle

Carl Schlesinger (born March 23, 1825 in Lausanne , † June 12, 1893 in Düsseldorf ) was a Swiss-German genre and landscape painter.

Schlesinger began his painting apprenticeship in Hamburg with Gerdt Hardorff and Hermann Kauffmann and continued it in 1844 at the Prague Academy with Christian Ruben . In 1850 he came to Antwerp , where he finished his apprenticeship.

Since 1852 he lived in Düsseldorf , where his brother Felix , who, like him , belongs to the Düsseldorf School , had received training at the Academy and with Rudolf Jordan . From there he went on many study trips. From 1852 to 1893 Schlesinger belonged to the artists' association Malkasten . He was also a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

literature

• Schlesinger, Carl. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Painters' works of the 19th century, contribution to art history. Dresden 1898, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 579 f.
• Schlesinger, Carl. In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. Publishing house of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882.

Web links

Commons : Carl Schlesinger  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Karl Schlesinger. at the Oxford Index
• Karl Schlesinger. Data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, studies and stay in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 439