Carl Gottlieb Peschel

Carl Gottlieb Peschel ( born March 31, 1798 in Dresden, † July 3, 1879 ) was a German painter. He belonged to the school of the Nazarene and remained true to this art life.

Life

Peschel was born as the son of the Financial officials Georg Gottlieb Peschel. From 1812 he studied painting at the Art Academy of Dresden as a student of Christian August Lindner ( 1811) and Traugott Leberecht Pochmann (1815 /25). When Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein painted the ceiling paintings for the castle Pillnitz, to temporarily Peschel earned his living as a servant. Using the leftover from the wartime paternal Erbanteils he financed his annual trip to Rome (1825 /26).

His companion on the journey there was Adolf Gottlob Zimmermann (1799-1859), in Rome itself received him old and new friends. There is also a " lifelong friendship " between him and Julius Schnorr von Carol Field was born. Anton Josef Dräger Peschel led into the Roman art world. By Ludwig Richter Peschel followed up on a relationship intimate friendship that lasted for life. After his return home, he earned his living by painting snuff cans and gave drawing lessons. The purchase of the painting " Eliezer and Rebecca at the Well " by the Saxon Art Association improved its financial situation and allowed a return to art.

Besides Bonaventure Genelli he was in the painting of Härtel 's house ( Roman Villa ) involved in Leipzig. Johann Gottlob von Quandt hired him from 1836 to 1838 for the decoration of the " Belvedere " in Dittersbach with frescoes of the Goethe- works The singer, The Fisherman, Erlkönig, Geistesgruß, The King of Thule and The Tale. 1837 Carl Gottlieb Peschel went to the Art Academy in Dresden succeed the late character Master Christian Ernst Stolzel ( 1792-1837 ), and in 1846 he was appointed professor in 1859, and admission to the Academic Council. In the same year the altarpiece for the church in Auerbach / Vogtl arose. Peschel was admixed in 1877 to retire. Frederick Leon Pohle made ​​a befindliches now in the Dresden gallery portrait by Peschel.

Peschel preferred to about 1850 Old Testament motifs, he increasingly turned to the New Testament.

Honors

In Dresden the Peschelstrasse was named after the artist.

Works (selection)

  • Muse, 1820
  • Psyche and Zephyr 1821
  • Magdalena, 1825
  • Eliezer and Rebecca at the well burned, 1827, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, 1931 in Munich
  • Lamentation of Christ, 1832
  • Stephen before the chief priests, 1833
  • Christ, the Lord's Supper handing out 1851
  • Ride the Apostle across the sea, 1853
  • The three Marys at the Easter morning, 1860
  • Disciples to Emmaus, 1870
  • Boniface falls the sacred oak, 1856

Illustrations (selection)

  • In: Alphabet for children big and small / drawn by Dresdner artists. With stories and songs by R. Reinic and Sing ways of Ferdinand Hiller. Leipzig:. Wigand, 1845 ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )

Works in the public domain

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
  • Prints and Drawings Dresden
  • Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden
  • Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
  • Martin-von -Wagner- Museum, Würzburg

Writings

  • Carl Peschel: The Book Tobiä in eleven pictorial representations. Issued to promote pious mind with a preface accompanied by D. August Hahn. C. G. Börner, Leipzig, 1830.
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