Moritz Blanckarts

Moritz Blanckarts (born April 16, 1839 in Düsseldorf ; † April 12, 1883 in Stuttgart ) was a German history painter of the Düsseldorf School as well as artist biographer , poet and playwright .

Life

Blanckarts received private lessons from Moritz Pläschke and Benjamin Vautier . From 1856 he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where Christian Köhler and Heinrich Mücke taught him. Further private teachers were Emanuel Leutze in 1857 and Emil Hünten in 1858 . Blanckarts lived in Düsseldorf, where he belonged to the artists' association Malkasten and took part in the “Dürer Memorial Service” in 1871 with a prologue and a poem. Blanckarts preferably painted and sang historical scenes, especially from battles. His first works described the wars of liberation . In 1876 he moved to Stuttgart, where he died seven years later at the age of 43.

Blanckarts also excelled as a biographer, poet, playwright and art writer; Among other things, he was the author of 30 articles in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . In 1877 his work by Düsseldorf artists was published in Stuttgart . Necrologist for the past ten years .

Works

photos

Körner's Death (1859)
Schill's death
York near Möckern (1863)
King Wilhelm at Königgrätz (1867)
Bazaine at Mars la Tour (1873)
Kaiser Wilhelm on Horseback with Bismarck, Moltke and Podbielski (1875)

Fonts

The Düsseldorf Art Academy and the Düsseldorf School . In: Our time. German review of the present. Monthly for the conversation lexicon . New series, fifth year, second half, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1869, p. 39 ff.
Düsseldorf artist. Necrologist for the past ten years . Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart 1877.

literature

Blanckarts, Moritz . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 97 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Eduard Daelen : Blanckarts, Moritz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 7.
Blanckarts, Moritz . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 55.

Web links

Wikisource: Moritz Blanckarts - Sources and full texts

Moritz Blanckarts , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

↑ See Findbuch 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on April 13, 2020
↑ Volker Frech: Living pictures and music using the example of Düsseldorf culture . Master's thesis, University of Cologne, Cologne 1999, ISBN 978-3-83243-062-7 , p. 27 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Blanckarts, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German history painter, artist biographer, poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 16, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	April 12, 1883
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] See Findbuch 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )

[2] Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on April 13, 2020

[3] Volker Frech: Living pictures and music using the example of Düsseldorf culture . Master's thesis, University of Cologne, Cologne 1999, ISBN 978-3-83243-062-7 , p. 27 ( limited preview in the Google book search).