Wilhelm Gustav Groos
Wilhelm Gustav Groos (born October 11, 1824 in Gießen , Grand Duchy of Hesse , † after 1852) was a German landscape and genre painter and etcher from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Groos, son of Friedrich Carl Groos and Wilhelmine Hofmann, came from Gießen to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1842 , where he studied painting until 1848/1849. At the Düsseldorf Academy he attended the landscape class of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer from 1842 to 1847 , the building class of Rudolf Wiegmann in 1843/1844 and finally the 2nd class (antique hall and painting class) of Karl Ferdinand Sohn . In 1852 Groos created a vedute of his hometown including the course of the Main-Weser Railway there . The painting came into the possession of Justus von Liebig as a gift from professors at Ludwigs University .
literature
- Groos, Wilhelm . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 83 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Groos, WG In: Friedrich von Boetticher : Painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 415.
Web links
- Groos, Wilhelm G. , website in the stiftung-volmer.de portal
- Wilhelm Gustav Groos , genealogical data sheet in the portal online-ofb.de
- Wilhelm G. Groos , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 978-3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145
- ↑ Cf. nos. 4418–4426 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
- ↑ Friedhelm Häring : The Illusionists . In: Gießener Universitätsblätter , 46, 2013, p. 125 ( PDF )
- ↑ Thomas Schmitz-Albohn: Gießener Stadtansicht tells a piece of technological history . Article from August 25, 2016 in the giessener-anzeiger.de portal , accessed on October 31, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Groos, Wilhelm Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Giessen , Grand Duchy of Hesse |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1852 |