Karl Wohnlich

Carl Wohnlich: An honorable gentleman

Karl Wohnlich (also Carl Wohnlich ; born December 26, 1824 in Friedland , Province of Silesia , † November 20, 1885 in Dresden ) was a German history , genre and portrait painter .

Life

The son of a Friedland master tailor was homely. On October 30, 1852, he enrolled in painting at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich. His teachers included Philipp von Foltz , Carl Theodor von Piloty and Moritz von Schwind . He went on an educational trip to Italy and was based in Breslau from 1864 , later he returned to Munich. His last place of work was Dresden.

Wohnlich created numerous history, genre and altar paintings as well as portraits. His most famous works are:

Battle of the Mongols near Liegnitz 1241 (1870; acquired by the Silesian Museum in Breslau)
Breslau, St. Barbara Church : high altar picture
Breslau, former Jesuit church (from 1819 St. Matthias): high altar picture of Our Lady of Sorrows (1860)
Munich, Maximilianeum : Fresco Count Palatine Christoph leaves Heidelberg and is crowned King of Denmark in 1430
For the parish church of his hometown he painted the main altar painting “St. Clan "

literature

Comfortable, Carl. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, p. 1034 ( archive.org ).
Comfortable, Carl . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 287 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - Supplements).
Comfortable, Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 182 .
Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , pp. 611, 1042 and 1079.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ 01047 Karl Wohnlich . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 2: 1841–1884 ( matrikel.adbk.de , daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Comfortable, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Comfortable, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German history, genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	December 26, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH	Friedland , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	November 20, 1885
Place of death	Dresden

[1] 01047 Karl Wohnlich . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 2: 1841–1884 ( matrikel.adbk.de , daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).