Carl Blechen

Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen ( born July 29, 1798 in Cottbus, † July 23, 1840 in Berlin) was a German landscape painter and professor of landscape painting at the Berlin Academy of Arts.

• 2.1 History of Art Classification
• 2.2 Exhibitions

Life

Family and early years

Carl Blechen (now Berlin Street ) was born in 1798 in Cottbus Luckischen the alley. He came from a modest background, his father Adrian sheets was a tax official from Regensburg and his mother Johanna Christiana, born Happatz, the daughter of a Wendish cutter. From 1805 to 1815 Carl Blechen visited the Cottbus Lyceum of the upper church, where he particularly benefited from the influence of the painter Christian Gottlieb Lemmrich, which was at that time the teacher Blechen. Since his parents could not afford to pay for a degree, he began an apprenticeship as a banker, which he completed in 1819. Immediately after, he volunteered for the Guard Pioneer Battalion for the period of one year. After this time, he began working in a bank. In his spare time he occupied himself more with the painting. In 1822 he began studying at the Berlin Academy of Arts, a year later he undertook a study trip to Dresden and Saxon Switzerland.

Freelance artist

After his return, Carl Blechen got a job as a decorator at the royal theater at Alexanderplatz in Berlin. His marriage to the milliner Henriette Boldt was completed on December 27, 1824. Two years later sheets was included in the Berlin Artists' Association. In 1827 he received the notice from the theater because of a dispute with the singer Henriette Sontag. Since that time sheets worked as a freelance artist. In the summer of 1828 was followed by a study tour to the Baltic Sea. Subsequently, from September 1828 to November 1829, he went on an extended and restless trip to Italy, where he met, among others, Carl Wilhelm Götzloff and emerged in the course of hundreds of sketches that were later elaborated in his Berlin studio. Deeply impressed, came from the sun-drenched landscape sheets to a new vision and manner of painting, whose value should never open up for many of his contemporaries, since they did not meet the then- usual " romanticized " style, but more based on reality was (for example, his images of the paper mills in Amalfi).

Professor of landscape painting at the Berlin Academy

1831 Carl Blechen was appointed on the recommendation of Karl Friedrich Schinkel professor of landscape painting at the Berlin Academy. The next trip of the painter led him in 1833 in the resin, and two years later came the first signs of mental illness on. In the same year plates was elected a full member of the Academy of the Arts and undertook another trip, this time with the aim of Paris.

Since the health of the now familiar landscape painter increasingly deteriorated and he suffered from severe depression, was in 1836 the leave of absence from teaching. The following year, sheets had to be admitted to a hospital, then he went on a vacation trip to Dresden. His last drawing was made at that time.

On July 23, 1840 Carl Blechen died in mental derangement. He found his final resting place in the Holy Trinity Cemetery II in Berlin -Kreuzberg. The exact location of the tomb is no longer detectable. A plaque on the cemetery wall in field B1 with marking as an honorary grave of Berlin is reminiscent of sheets.

Work

Art -historical classification

In Blechen landscapes reveals a new realism, old positions of the early Romantic period to be abandoned. Sheets ironically the expectations of an audience that is accustomed to idealistic and heroic excesses of landscapes as they appear in pictures of Jakob Philipp Hackert or Joseph Anton Koch, or estimates the idylls of Salomon Gessner. Sheets drives of landscape painting from the Gefühlsschwelgereien of romance and the honesty of the Biedermeier period. He is the inventor magnificent light and color effects. The subjects of the pictures are there to show the light and the color effect of the sun's rays. After his trip to Italy, the effect of bright sunlight is the dominant motif of his landscapes - it points in the same direction as the plein air painting of the Impressionists.

Exhibitions

The birthday of the next most important landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich of the early 19th century marked the 200th anniversary in 1998. To mark this anniversary were held in and around Cottbus, in addition to the permanent exhibition of his paintings in Branitz castle, a variety of events, exhibitions and concerts in honor of Carl Blechen.

An unusual event was the exhibition in Berlin in 1990 on the occasion of his 150th death anniversary. At this time the State Museums of Berlin was still divided, originally separate exhibitions were planned in East and West. The events of 1989 and 1990 resulted in Germany mean that these exhibitions were merged. Sheets was posthumously into an artistic companion reunification. The exhibition took place at the New National Gallery.

From January 29 to April 11, 2010 showed the Old National Gallery in Berlin in addition to a number of his oil paintings (including those from other museums ) under the title " Drawn With Light" from the art collection of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the 66 light-filled leaves in sepia and. of graphite Blechen Amalfi sketchbook from 1829 until July 18, 2010 show at the Casa di Goethe in Rome was to see from April 28: for the first time so this initial work of modern art was presented entirely in the country, where it originated.

Works

• At the edge of the forest ( Wuppertal, Von der Heydt - Museum, Inv. No. 0264 ), oil on wood, 34.5 x 53.5 cm
• The dingle (Berlin, Old National Gallery ), 1825, oil on canvas, 98 x 127 cm
• Gothic church ruin ( Dresden, Gemäldegalerie, inv. No. 2637 A), 1826, oil on canvas, 129.5 x 96.5 cm
• Demonic Landscapes ( Schweinfurt, Museum Georg Schäfer) to 1826,
• Gothic church ruin ( Dresden, Pillnitz ), 1826
• Dingle with deer (Hannover) Lower Saxony State Museum, 1828
• Bathers in the Park at Terni ( Stuttgart State Gallery ), 1828/29, oil on paper, 36 x 26 cm
• Bathers in the Park at Terni ( Dusseldorf, Art Museum ), 1829, oil on canvas, 32 x 24.5 cm
• Grotto with two monks on the Gulf of Naples (Cologne, Wallraf -Richartz Museum ), 1829
• The Roman Forum (Vienna, Belvedere), 1829, oil on cardboard
• Afternoon in Capri (Vienna, Belvedere), 1829, oil on canvas
• Grotto in the park of Villa d' Este ( Cottbus, sheets Memorial ) to 1829-30, oil on canvas, 31 x 40 cm
• In the park of Villa d' Este (Berlin, Old National Gallery ), 1830, oil on canvas, 126 x 93 cm
• Monastery of St. Scholastica in Subiaco ( Wuppertal, Von der Heydt - Museum, Inv. No. 0667 ), 1830, oil on canvas, 110 x 77 cm
• In the park of Villa Borghese (Berlin, Old National Gallery ), 1830, oil on canvas, 78 x 63 cm
• Mill at Eberswalde (Berlin, Gemäldegalerie ), 1830, oil on canvas, 23 x 32 cm
• The blasted tower the Heidelberg Castle (Bremen, Kunsthalle ), 1830, oil on canvas, 80.5 x 92 cm
• Southern rock with caves ( Schweinfurt, Museum Georg Schäfer), after 1830
• Building the Devil's Bridge (Munich, Neue Pinakothek, inv. No. L 1039 ) to 1830-32, oil on canvas, 77.8 x 104.5 cm
• Two ladies in the park (Munich, Neue Pinakothek, inv. No. 9875 ) to 1830-32, oil on canvas, 39.5 x 33.2 cm
• The Mills of Amalfi (Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts), 1831
• Palm house on the peacock island near Potsdam (Hamburg, Kunsthalle ), 1832-34, oil on canvas, 64 x 56 cm
• The Villa d' Este in Tivoli ( Berlin National Gallery ) in 1831 /32, oil on canvas, 127.5 x 94 cm
• View of Assisi (Munich, Neue Pinakothek, inv. No. 10338 ) to 1832-35, oil on canvas, 97.3 x 146.5 cm
• Monastery courtyard with cloister ( Schweinfurt, Museum Georg Schäfer) to 1833/35
• In the park of Terni bathing girls ( Schweinfurt, Museum Georg Schäfer), 1835/37
• Bathers in the Park at Terni (Hannover, Lower Saxony State Museum ), 1836, oil on canvas, 101 x 56.5 cm

Appreciation

In Blechen's birth city of Cottbus wear a street and an elementary school named after the famous son of the city. Since September 2008, shopping center is named after the painter. In the sheets Carré also a listed former Carl Blechen- school is integrated.