Wilhelm Custor

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Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Custor (born October 2, 1824 in Koblenz ; † November 13, 1858 ibid) was a German portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Custor, son of Wilhelm Custor, bailiff at the Royal District Court in Koblenz , and his wife Eva Katharina, née Lenz from Cochem, studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1840 to 1844 after attending the Koblenz high school . There he was a student of Theodor Hildebrandt and Rudolf Wiegmann . After graduating, he traveled to Dresden , Stuttgart , Munich and Paris . He lived with his family in Mayen before he settled in Koblenz as a portrait painter in the mid-1850s.

The collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie contains his portrait of Maria Mosler as a bride , painted in 1855 , which shows the daughter of the painter, academy secretary and art historian Karl Josef Ignatz Mosler , who became a nun of the Sisters of the Cross in Liège under the name Johanna .

literature

  • Ernst Nick: The painter Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Custor (1824-1858) . In: Mayener Zeitung , edition of July 5, 1930.
  • Hans Gappenach: The painter FW Custor. New research on life and work . In: Home between the Hunsrück and Eifel . Born in 1970, issue 2, p. 2.
  • Elisabeth Heitger: The Koblenz painters and their works in the first half of the 19th century. A contribution to the cultural and art history of the Rhineland in the late 18th and first half of the 19th century . Dissertation Bonn 1978, Koblenz 1982, p. 23, 136.
  • Alfons Friderichs (ed.): Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district . Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF
  2. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
  3. ^ Portrait of Maria Mosler as a bride , website in the portal smb-museum-digital.de
personal data
SURNAME Custor, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Custor, Friedrich Wilhelm Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1858
Place of death Koblenz