Carl Joseph Begas

Carl Joseph Bega, actually bagasse ( born September 30, 1794 in Heinberg, † November 24, 1854 in Berlin) was a German painter and is considered the progenitor of a dynasty of artists spanning several generations.

Life

The bagasse family was originally from Belgium, from around Verviers and Liege. In space Heinberg they can be traced back to the 17th century. His childhood was spent in Bega Randerath and in the grandparents' house on Herb Dremmen. By moving the family to Cologne in 1802 he got here and later at the Lyceum in Bonn, his first artistic training. In 1813 he continued his education in Paris with Antoine Jean Gros. Here in 1814 the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. noticed him and promoted him from then on with jobs and scholarships.

Bega remained in Paris until 1821; In his works of that time - among other things the knowledge acquired by the king for the Berlin garrison church painting Christ on the Mount of Olives - he combined elements of the French school with the graphic strictness of the Old German and Old Dutch Masters. Even at this early time his talent was fully developed as a portrait painter, see the early self-portraits from 1819 and 1820 in BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg and in the National Gallery in Berlin.

On his made ​​possible by a scholarship trip to Italy in 1822-25, he joined the group of painters of the Nazarene. In Italy, he also began to re-sign no longer with bagasse, but with the Germanized form of Bega. In 1825 he settled permanently in Berlin and married Wilhelmina Bock, daughter of the Berlin castle builder Johann Ludwig Bock. Bega's ' home and studio house Am Karlsbad 10 was soon a meeting of the Berlin Society. During the trip to Italy Bega was admitted to the Berlin Academy of Arts, 1826, he was appointed professor at the Academy. The teaching he held until his death in 1854.

Both in the field of history and genre painting and in his altarpieces and portraits knew Bega to bring the different influences his artistic studies in Paris and Rome together in harmony and so groundbreaking contribute to the development of the Berlin painting from Romanticism to Realism. To 1828 he performed under the influence of the Düsseldorf School of Painting a temporary change of style and created increasingly works with literary or historical reference, including the painting based on the famous Rhine announcement or on Heinrich Heine's poem The Lureley (1835, Heinberg, BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of art and regional history Heinberg ) and history painting Henry IV at Canossa (1836, former Rheineck Castle, whereabouts unknown), both of which are among his most successful creations. But Bega, partly for economic reasons, returned again and again to portraiture back, in which he accomplished his most important achievements. When the Peace Class of the Order Pour le Mérite was donated, Bega received in 1843 the order to portray the awardees, including the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch and Johann Gottfried Schadow, the philologist Jacob Grimm and Alexander von Humboldt (all Potsdam, Foundation for Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin- Brandenburg).

1846 appointed Friedrich Wilhelm IV Bega for royal Prussian court painter.

Bega's died at the age of 60 years after returning from a stay in Rome.

Four sons seized the artists work and received their earliest artistic impulses in his father's studio: the sculptor Reinhold Bega Bega and Carl the Younger and the painter Oscar Bega Bega and Adalbert. Three of them - Oscar, who began as a portraitist and genre painter, the successor of his father, Carl Reinhold and J. d - were later also worked for the Prussian royal family and the House of Hohenzollern.

Works

The oeuvre of Carl Joseph Bega comprises of current knowledge, more than 300 paintings and drawings. A significant collection of paintings, drawings and autographs of Bega Elder. has the BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg, formerly Kreismuseum Heinberg. Major works can still be found in the Old National Gallery in Berlin, the Berlin Cathedral, in the Berlin City Museum Foundation, the Foundation for Prussian Palaces and Gardens in Berlin -Brandenburg, in the Wallraf -Richartz Museum - Fondation Corboud in Cologne and the Rhineland Regional Museum Bonn.

Selections

  • St. John in the Desert, 1810, copy after Raphael, oil / on canvas. , 186 x 120 cm, BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg
  • Self-portrait of the painter Johann Peter Weyer, 1813, oil / on canvas, 100 x 80 cm Wallraf -Richartz Museum -. Corboud, Cologne
  • The outpouring of the Holy Spirit, 1818-21, altar paintings in the Berlin Cathedral
  • Self-portrait, 1819, oil / on canvas. , 60 x 49 cm, BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg
  • Girl portrait ( Fanny Mendelssohn? ), In 1821, oil / on canvas. , 54 x 45.5 cm, BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg
  • The bagasse Family, 1821, 78 x 85,5 cm Wallraf -Richartz Museum - Fondation Corboud, Cologne; handwritten repetition in the Lindenau - Museum Altenberg, permanent loan to the BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg
  • The sisters hoof, about 1822, Schweinfurt, Museum Georg Schäfer
  • Portrait of Bertel Thorvaldsen with laurel branch, 1823, Oil / poplar wood, 93 x 71,5 cm Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin; Second version in St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum
  • Portrait of Jakob Salomon Bartholdy, 1824, oil / on canvas. , 72 x 59 cm, BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg
  • The Artist's Parents, 1826, oil / on canvas. , 40.7 x 81 cm Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin
  • Portrait of Wilhelmine Bega, the wife of the artist, 1828, oil / on canvas, 66 x56 cm Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin.; handwritten repeat of 1828 in BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg
  • Portrait of horticulture director Peter Joseph Lenne, 1830, oil / on canvas. , 59,5 x 55,5 cm Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin
  • Portrait of woman Gedike, 1830, oil / on canvas. , Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin
  • Portraits of the sisters Clara Eugenie and Hitzig, 1831, each 26 x 22.5 cm, Berlin City Museum Foundation
  • Cupid and Terspichore ( Apotheosis of the dancer Fanny Elssler ), 1832, oil / on canvas. , 206 x 165 cm, BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg
  • The Sermon on the Mount, 1833, oil / on canvas. , BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg
  • Oscar Bega, the artist's son, at the age of seven years at the easel, 1835, oil / on canvas. , 30.5 x 25 cm Bavarian State Painting Collections, Neue Pinakothek
  • Two girls on the mountains ( look in the home ), 1835, Rhineland Museum Bonn; former small version (1834 ) on copper or canvas in BEGAS HOUSE Heinberg; Repetition in Staatliche Museum Schwerin
  • The Lureley, 1835, oil / on canvas. , 124 x 136 cm, BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg
  • Henry IV in Canossa, 1836, former Rheineck Castle, whereabouts unknown; handwritten image-wise oil study, signed and dated 1833, in the BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg
  • Christ, the fall of Jerusalem predicting 1840 fresco in the choir of the chapel of the castle Bad Homburg
  • Portrait Henriette Beerend c.1840, oil / on canvas. , 120 x 90 cm, BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg
  • The whitewash, 1841, oil / on canvas, 66 x 86 cm, BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg. ; another handwritten version (of formerly seven) in Staatliche Museum Schwerin
  • Portrait of Étienne Barez, about 1842, oil / on canvas. , 65 x 62 cm, BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg
  • Christ enthroned with angels and the four Evangelists, 1845, apse paintings in the choir of the Church of the Redeemer at the Port of Sacrow, obtained in situ
  • Portrait of Christian Daniel Rauch, 1846, oil / on canvas. , Potsdam, Foundation for Prussian Palaces and Gardens in Berlin -Brandenburg
  • Portrait of Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1847, oil / on canvas. , 105.5 x 86 cm, Potsdam, Foundation for Prussian Palaces and Gardens in Berlin -Brandenburg
  • Self-portrait, 1848, oil / on canvas, Wallraf -Richartz Museum -. Corboud, Cologne, permanent loan to the Cologne City Museum
  • The wine-growing family, in 1850, oil / on canvas. , BEGAS HOUSE, Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg ( original pencil drawing of 1847 and small-scale preliminary study ibid.)
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