Thomas Cranz

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Thomas Cranz (also Thomas Kranz * 1785 or 1786 in Neisse , Silesia ; † 24. June 1853 in Cologne ) was a German artist of Romanticism .

Live and act

Very little is known about Cranz's life stages. In 1825 he created his city views of Aachen . In collaboration with Adolph Wegelin , who painted the Cranz drawings with watercolors , he created drawings of Cologne, cityscapes and individual sights in 1840. Anton Wünsch, G. Böhm, Ph. Koppel, among others, created their lithographs based on his drawings .

Aachen city views

The 19 drawings by Cranz with city views of Aachen and Burtscheid were included in a book bearing the initials L.R. carries, kept. Cranz made these sheets around 1825. At that time he was in Aachen and moved from one sight to the next with pencil and paper. Peter Ludwig Kühnen reported that some of the sheets were lithographed by Alois Senefelder , the inventor of lithography in Paris . In 1897 J. Fey was told that a publication by La Ruelle Verlag was planned for 1825.

The sheets by Cranz were an enrichment of the Aquensia collection in the Museum Burg Frankenberg in 1982 . They documented the drawing art of Romanticism at the beginning of the 19th century. It was a donation from Johanna Reuters from Cologne, which was acquired in 1981.

style

Cranz grasped the characteristics of the architecture. His art of washing set specific accents. The initially active repoussoir figures take the place of the viewer in his later works.

reception

In 1830 Jacob Gaiser painted the view of the city of Coeln after Thomas Cranz. The picture from Color Aquatint has the format 36 × 58 cm.

Works (selection)

  • 1825 City Views Aachen, 19 pictures on paper with pen, ink, partly with pencil, washed
  • 1838–1841 city views of Cologne
Groß St. Martin - exterior view northeast, colored by Adolph Wegelin
  • Inside the Annoniterkirche, drawing: Thomas Cranz, watercolored by Adolf Wegelin, 29.1 × 20.9 cm, City Museum Cologne, Graphic Collection HM 1905/43 - XVII, 3rd century.
  • 1840 City view of Cologne with St. Aposteln and Aachener Strasse in the background. Lithograph after a drawing by Johann Peter Weyer and Thomas Cranz, Stadtmuseum Köln, KSM AI 2/203.
  • 1840 Cologne Cathedral Drawing: Thomas Cranz, watercolors v. Adolf Wegelin, City Museum in Cologne
  • Groß St. Martin , Cologne,
  • View of the city of Cologne.
  • Government building, St. Gereon , lithograph v. G. Böhm after a drawing by Thomas Cranz and Johann Peter Weyer.
  • City view of Cologne with St. Severin , u. a. , the like.
  • Detention and correction house, the like .
  • St. Cunibert , Ursuline Church , Maria Himmelfahrtskirche , St. Andreas , Schauspielhaus, Provincial Midwife Institute. like
  • St. Aposteln Church, honor gate , artillery magazine. like

literature

Web links

Commons : Thomas Cranz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artnet: Jacob Gaiser
  2. ↑ Burg Schimper (Moresnet) , s. a. Joseph Carl Cogel ; and Carl Rhoen made four of of Schimper. Dieter Detiège, Helmut Doerenkamp: Carl Rhoen on the 100th anniversary of death 1822–1899. Book accompanying an exhibition. Self-published by Gesellschaft Burtscheid, Aachen-Burtscheid 1999, (Carl Rhoen 1822–1899) p. 68.
personal data
SURNAME Cranz, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kranz, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1785 or 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Neisse , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1853
Place of death Cologne