Wilhelm Streckfuß

Karl Wilhelm Streckfuß (born November 3, 1817 in Merseburg , † November 6, 1896 in Schöneberg ) was a German history, portrait, genre and landscape painter.

Life

Streckfuß began studying at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1832, a . a. in the drawing class of Friedrich Wilhelm Herbig . Between 1836 and 1839 he studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Carl Sohn . From 1838 to 1892 she regularly took part in the Berlin Academy exhibitions. In 1840 he opened his own studio in Mohrenstrasse. 15 in Berlin. He was a student in Paul Delaroche's studio in Paris in 1842/43 and in Rome and southern Italy in 1843/44, after which he returned to Berlin. In 1845 there was a three-month stay in the Alps. In 1858 his textbook of perspective appeared and in the 1860s contributions to perspective in the Dioscurs . From 1868 Streckfuß was a teacher for perspective at the drawing school of the Association of Artists and Art Friends in Berlin.

Works

Paris time

• The artist's studio in Paris , around 1843, canvas mounted on cardboard, 31 × 37 cm, inv. KM 42/1921, Berlin, City Museum Foundation (Plate XXII)
• Parc Luxembourg , oil study, whereabouts unknown (Streckfuß 1946, p. 10)
• View over the roofs of Paris , oil study, whereabouts unknown (ibid.)
• View of a rear building front , pencil sketch, whereabouts unknown (ibid.).

literature

• Streckfuss, Karl Wilhelm . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume II, p. 352
• Lisa Hackmann: Straightener, Karl Wilhelm . In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 279–281.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Registry office Schöneberg I, death register no. 898/1896. State Archives Berlin.