Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein
Carl Christian Vogel, since 1831 Vogel von Vogelstein ( born June 26, 1788 in Wild Rock, Electorate of Saxony, † March 4, 1868 in Munich) was a German painter.
Life
The son of the area famous for portraits and children's picture painter Christian Leberecht Vogel was taught early on by his father. From 1804 he attended the Art Academy in Dresden, where he copied many pictures of the paintings gallery and emerged with first own portraits.
In 1807 he went at the invitation of Baron Carl Otto von lion star, whose children he had given in Dresden drawing lessons, to Dorpat in Livonia. In 1808 he moved to St. Petersburg, where he established a studio in the princely palace Gagarin'schen and successfully portrayed aristocrats and diplomats.
1812 bird had collected enough funds to go on a long awaited trip to Italy can. On the way there he made in Berlin and Dresden station, where he portrayed his parents and Franz Pettrich among others.
From 1813 to 1820 Bird lived in Rome, where at that time, many German artists were active. Between the prevailing classicizing and romanticized schools he tried to find a middle ground. His style heavily leaned on the painter Raphael Mengs. In Italy he copied a large number of paintings and wall paintings of old masters. Even in later voyages he increased his collection of copies and published in 1860 to even a catalog.
In addition to religious paintings, landscape drawings and anatomical studies of birds also created in Rome mainly portraits, including by Bertel Thorvaldsen, Lucien Bonaparte and - on behalf of the king of Saxony - Pope Pius VII In the German artists in Rome bird was very popular as one of Ringseis traditional story illustrates: In 1818 he was awarded by unanimous decision of his colleagues, a bottle of Rhine wine from 1634, the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig had donated to the artistic community in gratitude for the artistic decoration of the ballroom.
Even in Petersburg bird had begun to create a collection of portraits of contemporary celebrities. By the end of his life as over 700 portraits emerged first as chalk drawing, later mostly as a pencil drawing. As the portraits of this collection are all drawn from life and were provided mostly even from those portrayed with an autograph, they are also a significant source of the iconographic and biographical research on the portrayed persons to whom even the 75 - year-old Goethe belonged. For his collection, he draws, inter alia, in Rome Antonio Canova, Christian Daniel Rauch, Peter von Cornelius, Friedrich Overbeck, Johann Christian Reinhart, Philipp Veit, Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carol Field and Walt Whitman. Also from his collection had bird print a catalog. He later left her for a lifelong pension King John I of Saxony. Today it is in the Print Room of the Dresden State Art Collections.
1820 bird was the successor of the murdered Gerhard von Kügelgen professor of Dresden Academy of Arts. He remained there long resident over 30 years, but was repeated within Germany and internationally (Paris 1830, London 1835) while traveling. In Dresden he created alongside his teaching career more portraits (including by Ludwig Tieck and Friedrich von Raumer ), but also representative images such as the ceiling paintings for the dining room of Schloss Pillnitz and numerous religious images ( including altarpieces for the Dresdner Hofkirche, on behalf of the canon Ampach of the crucifixion of the Christ cycle in Naumburg Cathedral and a series of paintings on the life of Mary in the chapel Pillnitz ). After he portrays all members of the Saxon royal family, him the honorary title of " court painter " was awarded in 1824, 1831 he was knighted by the name predicate " von Vogelstein ". He was made an honorary member of the Academies of Berlin (since 1832) and Saint Petersburg ( since 1833); many other honorary memberships at home and abroad followed.
From 1842 to 1844, he undertook a second extended trip to Italy, which led him to Rome, Naples and Pompeii. From his study of Dante Alighieri Dante was the monumental image in its relation to the Divine Comedy, which aroused great admiration in Italy, and was purchased by the Grand Duke of Tuscany for the Palazzo della Crocetta in Florence. A similar picture is created Vogel 1847-1852 to Goethe's Faust, and later another to Virgil's Aeneid. The theatrical pathos of these images, however, was particularly criticized in Germany many times.
1853 bird was added by Vogelstein in retirement. He left Dresden and moved to Munich. There he continued creating new paintings and recreations own, earlier paintings. From Munich from 1856-1857, he traveled again to Rome. In 1868, he died in Munich.
Bird had married Julie Gensiken 1826, a daughter of the writer Wilhelmine Gensicken. His wife died on 14 April 1828th bird leaving behind only his son John Arnolf Leo Vogel von Vogelstein ( 1827-1889 ), Dr. jur. K. b. BezGerAss. A.D.
Publications
- List of some home-made in the years 1814-1857 in Italy by C. Vogel v. V., partly collected sink marks and tracings by the old Italian masters. Munich 1860
- The principal moments of Goethe 's Faust, Dante's Divine Comedy and Virgil's Aeneid. Depicting and explained according to their inner connexion. Fleischmann, Munich 1861