Wilhelm Röckel

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Wilhelm Röckel (born July 23, 1801 in Schleissheim near Munich , † January 2, 1843 in Munich) was a German history painter .

Life

Röckel was the son of a court glazier and gallery clerk at Schleissheim Palace and there came into contact with the art of old masters at an early age. As a thirteen-year-old he was an excellent draftsman. After attending school in Passau , he attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich. In the senior class he became a student of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts under Johann Peter von Langer , whom he impressed with a drawing of Abel's death .

When Peter Cornelius came to Munich from Rome, he became his pupil. There he helped him with the painting of the Glypothek and followed him to the Royal Prussian Art Academy in Düsseldorf in autumn 1823 , where he worked alongside Karl Stürmer , Hermann Stilke , Carl Heinrich Hermann , Adam Eberle , Wilhelm Kaulbach , Konstantin zu Salm-Reifferscheidt (1798– 1856), Philipp Anton Schilgen , Peter Wilhelm App and a few other adepts of the close, Nazarene- inspired artist community of Cornelius disciples. Under the direction of the master, he designed the cardboard boxes in Düsseldorf , from which two muses were made in sandstone for the tympanum of the Aachen theater . In the years 1823/1824 he also created templates, now for frescoes that the Prussian chamberlain Carl von Plessen (1794–1843) had commissioned to decorate the new classical Eller Castle , the boxes for The Judgment of Midas (Apollo among the Shepherds) and six arabesque stripes, which, however, were not executed. In the years 1823/1824 he also painted the cardboard with the motif Descent from the Cross for an altarpiece, which Christian Ruben in Munich finally made in oil for a church in Westphalia.

Marriage of Otto the Illustrious to Agnes Count Palatine near Rhine in 1225 , illustration based on Röckel's fresco

When Cornelius returned to Munich in 1825, he followed him again. In Munich in 1827 he had the opportunity to take over the fresco The Marriage of Otto the Illustrious with Agnes Countess Palatine near Rhine in the arcades of the court garden in 1225 . After the arcades, Röckel was commissioned to paint in the Munich residence . For the king's bedroom he painted pictures from the poetry of Theocrits based on designs by Heinrich Maria von Hess and Ludwig Schwanthaler, and scenes from the poems of Sophocles for the king's parlor .

As a result, Röckel got a job at the Royal Porcelain Manufactory , where he composed pictures in the glass painting department and also painted them himself. For Joseph Daniel Ohlmüller's church Maria Hilf in der Au , he designed the window picture The Wedding of Kanaa and carried it out with the support of Franz Xaver Eggert . For Johann Claudius von Lassaulx 'Church of St. Marzellinus and Petrus in Vallendar , he created a Madonna picture as a window rosette.

In 1829 Röckel married Josephine Riedl from Tyrol. The couple had three children, of whom only one daughter lived in 1843. In the later years of his life a "foot problem" prevented him from painting, so that he preferred to work as a writer.

Fonts

  • Description of the frescoes from the history of Bavaria in the arcades of the Hofgarten . Munich 1829.
  • The woman praying at the Marian column . Munich 1839 and 1840 (dramatized by F. Fränkel in 1860).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nekrolog: Röckel . In: Morgenblatt für educated readers , No. 268 (November 9, 1843), supplement: Kunstblatt , No. 90 (November 9, 1843) p. 374 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Georg Kaspar Nagler, p. 291
  3. ^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 141 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Röckel, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleissheim near Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1843
Place of death Munich