Otto von Kameke
Otto Werner Henning von Kameke (born February 2, 1826 in Stolp , Pomerania Province , † June 8, 1899 in Berlin ) was a royal Prussian captain , painter and Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John .
family
Kameke came from the old Pomeranian noble family Kameke and was the son of the royal Prussian district administrator , landowner and Rittmeister Albert von Kameke (1795-1860), lord of the Egsow and Kummerzin ( Schlawe district ), and Ottilie von Blumenthal (1806-1875).
He married on August 3, 1859 in Brieg ( Upper Silesia ) Valeska (Wally) von Ferentheil and Gruppenberg (* December 24, 1836 in Breslau , Lower Silesia ; † January 11, 1914 in Potsdam , Brandenburg ), the daughter of the royal Prussian colonel and landowner Richard von Ferentheil and Gruppenberg, landlord of Leonhardwitz and Kammelwitz ( Silesia ), and Albertine von Klaß.
Life
Kameke was already a captain when he switched to art in 1860, went to Rome and devoted two years to the study of nature there. Then he entered the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar , was for a time a student of Arnold Böcklin , Alexander Michelis and later Stanislaus von Kalckreuth , whose landscape paintings he mostly used as models.
Kameke preferred to paint areas from the high mountains of Upper Bavaria , Switzerland and Tyrol , but also from the north German plains . His conception had the character of the great, the sublime; his brushwork was strong and broad.
He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.
Otto von Kameke died in Berlin in 1899 at the age of 73. He was buried in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Charlottenburg (today's Westend district of Berlin ). The grave has not been preserved.
Works
His landscape paintings include:
- At the Obersee near Berchtesgaden
- St. Bartholomä at the Königssee near Berchtesgaden
- The Lake Lucerne
- The Wetterhorn in the Bernese Oberland
- Wengen- Scheideck in the Bernese Oberland
- The Hintersee with alpine glow in the Berchtesgadener Land
- The Rotstock (3183 m) in the Urner Alps in Uri (Switzerland)
- Eisenhammer near Kufstein in Tyrol
- Great Scheideck
- Mountain landscape with a waterfall
- On Lake Geneva
- Chillon Castle
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A Volume VII, Volume 34 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1965, ISSN 0435-2408 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 475.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kameke, Otto von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kameke, Otto Werner Henning von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stolp , Pomerania Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1899 |
| Place of death | Berlin |