Wilhelm Saxesen

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Friedrich Wilhelm (Reisig) Saxesen (born January 23, 1792 at Gut Oehe ; † July 29, 1850 in Kiel ) was a drawing teacher, landscape painter, engraver and lithographer. He made views of the Harz Mountains and the Kiel Fjord .

Wilhelm Saxesen: Lumberjack in the Harz Mountains

Life

Saxesen was born near Kappeln on Gut Oehe in the Schleswig part of the entire Danish state . His father was a regimental quartermaster.

From 1808 to 1812 he completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Husum . From 1813 to 1820 he worked as a pharmacist in Oldenburg in Holstein and Schwerin , before giving up his old profession and went with Nicolaus Peters from Flensburg to the art academy in Dresden, where he studied painting in Dresden . From 1826 to 1842 he worked as a drawing teacher at the mountain and forestry school in Clausthal , soon afterwards as a teacher of botany and natural history.

Saxesen created a Harz panorama, which consisted of 12 oil paintings and which an entrepreneur named W. Meyer from Clausthal exhibited in several cities, including Kiel, where Saxesen settled in 1843 and created several local views. Saxesen made friends with the landscape painter Charles Ross and died unexpectedly of cholera in 1850 .

Works (selection)

  • Eisenach with the Wartburg (unfinished), canvas, 82 × 114.5 cm, Kunsthalle Kiel
  • Lumberjack in the Harz Mountains (1828), oil on canvas, 52.5 × 68.5 cm, Kunsthalle Kiel
  • Kiel Fjord near Bellevue (around 1849), colored chalk lithograph ; from a series with views of Kiel

literature

  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Friedrich Wilhelm Saxesen, in: Ders., Kieler Künstler - Kunstleben und Künstlereisen 1770-1870, Heide 2014, pp. 266–271.
  • Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker: General Lexicon of the Visual Artists . Ed .: Hans Vollmer. tape 29 . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 516 .
  • Gerhard KF Stinglwagner, Ilse E. Haseder, Reinhold Erlbeck: The cosmos forest and forest lexicon . The standard work with over 16,000 keywords. 4th edition. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-440-12160-3 , pp. 737 .
  • Axel Wellner: The drawing teacher and naturalist Friedrich Wilhelm Saxesen . In: Wilfried Ließmann (Hrsg.): General Harz-Berg-Calendar for the year 2015 . Paper planes , 2014, ISSN  1867-5395 , p. 55-63 .

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Axel Wellner: The drawing teacher and natural scientist Friedrich Wilhelm Saxesen . In: General Harz Mountain Calendar . 2014, p. 55 (Entry in the church book of Gelting. According to Wellner all the following (corrected) information.).
personal data
SURNAME Saxesen, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saxesen, Friedrich Wilhelm; Saxesen, Friedrich Wilhelm Reisig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, engraver and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Good oehe
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1850
Place of death Kiel