Karl Stürmer (painter)

Ceiling of the “Medieval Hall” in the New Museum in Berlin with portraits of Roman-German emperors

Karl Benjamin Stürmer (* 1803 in Berlin ; † March 29, 1881 ibid) was a German fresco painter .

Life

Karl Stürmer was born in Berlin in 1803 as the son of the painter and etcher Heinrich Stürmer (1774 or 1775–1855) and brother of the sculptor Wilhelm Stürmer. After training with his father, he studied with Peter von Cornelius at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1821 . In 1825 he followed Peter von Cornelius to Munich , where he helped paint the Glyptothek , among other things . In 1829 and 1830 Karl Stürmer worked in Rome , and when he returned to Munich he painted frescoes in the Ludwigskirche based on the designs of Peter von Cornelius. In 1842 he followed his teacher Cornelius to Berlin and took part in the execution of the frescoes based on designs by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the vestibule of the Altes Museum . Further orders followed for the chapel of the Berlin City Palace and for the New Museum . He died in Berlin on March 29, 1881.

Works

• Dusseldorf
  • Frescoes from the Barbarossa cycle in Heltorf Castle , Angermund
• Munich
  • 1827–1829: Wall frescoes The Battle of Mühldorf 1258 and The Storming of Belgrade in 1688 on the painting in the Hofgarten arcades , Munich
  • Participation in the painting of the Glyptothek based on designs by Peter von Cornelius, Munich (destroyed)
  • 1836–1840: Participation in the painting of the Ludwigskirche , Munich based on designs by Peter von Cornelius
• Berlin
  • 1842: Participation in the painting of the vestibule of the Altes Museum , Berlin, based on designs by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Berlin (destroyed)
  • Figures of the prophet Daniel and John the Baptist on a gold background in the chapel of the Berlin Palace, Berlin (destroyed)
  • approx. 1850: Portraits of Roman-German emperors in the ceiling medallions of the “Medieval Hall” in the Neues Museum , Berlin
• Potsdam
  • Medallions of the four prophets of the Old Testament Isaiah , Jeremiah , Ezekiel and Daniel in the pendentives between the drum and the sermon room in the Nikolaikirche based on designs by Peter von Cornelius, Potsdam

literature

• Forward, Carl . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume II, p. 863
• Hermann Arthur Lier :  Striker, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 51 f.
• Bibliographic Artist Lexicon, Dr. Hermann Alex. Müller, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig, 1882, pages 511/512