Moritz von Beckerath

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Moritz von Beckerath and his sister Hedwig in the painting Summer Night on the Rhine by Christian Eduard Böttcher
Moritz von Beckerath: Bismarck's apotheosis

Moritz von Beckerath (born May 2, 1838 in Krefeld , † September 17, 1896 in Munich ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Moritz von Beckerath was a son of Wilhelm von Beckerath (1800–1865) and his wife Amalie, geb. Wolff (1802-1863). From 1854 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Carl Ferdinand Sohn , Heinrich Mücke and Christian Köhler and presumably privately with Eduard Bendemann , Joseph Kehren and Emanuel Leutze . In 1859 he went to Munich and worked there briefly with Moritz von Schwind and then self- employed. In 1863 he returned to Düsseldorf; In 1864/65 and 1886/87 he stayed in Rome . He preferred to paint dramatic situations from the history of the Middle Ages (including Alaric's burial in the river bed of the Busento ) . With Karl Andreä he participated from 1882 to 1891 in the frescoes of the converted cathedral St. Peter zu Pécs (Fünfkirchen) with scenes from the Old Testament and from the life of St. Paul. In 1865 he exhibited five drawings in Düsseldorf, and the following year two boxes for paintings. Napoleon's flight from Moscow followed in 1867 (1866). He belonged to the artists' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf from 1859 to 1861 and from 1866/67 to 1875. He is related to the painter Willy von Beckerath and to the painter Helene von Beckerath . Together with his sister Hedwig he appears in the painting Summer Night on the Rhine by Christian Eduard Böttcher .

Works

painting
  • Wittekind calls the Saxons to fight (1873): Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
  • Alarich's burial in the Busento (around 1870): Munich, Schack-Galerie
  • Sleeping reveler (art trade)
Illustrations
  • In: Gustav Wendt : Ballad wreath: collected from German poets. Grote, Berlin 1866 ( urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-1665 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf ).
  • In: Düsseldorf picture portfolio: original drawings. Grote, Berlin 1866 ( urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-1138 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf).
  • Oh, if only I shuddered and King Thrushbeard. In: German picture sheets for young and old. Gustav Weise, Stuttgart, around 1873.
  • From one who set out to learn to fear. In: Münchener Bilderbogen. Braun & Schneider, Munich (year unknown).

literature

  • Julius Meyer, Hermann Lücke, Hugo von Tschudi (Hrsg.): General artist lexicon. Volume 3, Leipzig 1885, p. 272.
  • Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. I-1, Dresden 1891, I-2, 1895.
  • Hyacinth Holland :  Beckerath, Moriz von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, p. 327 f.
  • Hermann Board : Beckerath, Moritz von . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 152 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists. prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main, Volume 1, Volume 5 (supplements) 1921.
  • Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume 1, 1976.
  • Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 1, 1981.
  • Beckerath, Moritz von . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 .
  • Wolfgang Hütt : The Düsseldorf School of Painting. 1819-1869 . VEB EA Seemann Buch- und Kunstverlag, Leipzig 1984, pp. 240, 276.
  • Barbara Lülf, In: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819-1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , p. 103 (fig.).

Web links

Commons : Moritz von Beckerath  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Düsseldorfer Zeitung. No. 29, January 29, 1865.
  2. ↑ Düsseldorfer Zeitung. No. 137, May 20, 1866.
  3. ↑ Düsseldorfer Zeitung. No. 27, January 27, 1867.
personal data
SURNAME Beckerath, Moritz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1896
Place of death Munich