Wilhelm August Christian Abel
Wilhelm August Christian Abel (* 1748 in Zerbst ; † after 1803) was a German portrait , landscape and miniature painter .
Life
Abel was the son of the violinist Leopold August Abel , who also worked as a portrait painter. Abel came to Copenhagen in 1776 . There he painted “good portraits and cute landscapes”. Several miniatures of him are known. He lived in Paris for a long time, where he was a student of Jean-Urbain Guérin .
literature
- Julius Meyer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Volume 2, Leipzig 1872, p. 20 ( books.google.de ).
- Andreas Røder : Abel, Wilhelm August Christian . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 20 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Leo R. Schidlof : La miniature en Europe. Volume 1, Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1964, p. 39.
- Abel, Wilhelm August Christian . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 , p. 112. (with further references)
Web link
- Miniature by Wilhelm August Christian Abel on askart.com. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abel, Wilhelm August Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait and landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1748 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zerbst |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1803 |