Carl Oesterley

Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Oesterley ( born June 22, 1805 in Göttingen, † March 29, 1891 in Hannover ) was a German painter. His works are primarily attributable to the realism in German painting. He mainly created oil paintings.

Life

As the son of University of Inspector Georg Heinrich Carl Oesterley Oesterley studied after graduating from high school in Minden wood since 1822 at the University of Göttingen, archeology, history and philosophy. On March 29, 1824 he received his doctorate in the field of art history. He then went to Dresden, where he took drawing lessons, after he had received the first painting lessons in Kassel. Carl Oesterley there was a pupil of Johann Gottlob Matthai (1753-1832) and held from 1824 to 1829 in Rome. After his return to Germany took place in 1829 his habilitation; In 1831 he was appointed professor of art history at Göttingen where he edited the monuments of ancient art with Carl Otfried Müller. In 1842 he became a full professor of art. After completion of the image of Christ and Ahasuerus, he was appointed in 1844 to the Royal Hanoverian court painter.

After the 1852 Oesterley produced numerous altarpieces, inter alia for the Church in Rosdorf, in Molzen in Uelzen and Bad Iburg. The large painting Christ as Savior received the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Castle Iburg 1867, after King George V had promised the community during his visit in 1862 both a new altarpiece as well as new windows for the castle church. The altarpiece Oesterleys was hung on the east wall of the church after the restoration of the church from 1967 to 1969.

Oesterley is expected to school the Nazarene, his influences go beyond the narrow framework. In addition, he produced portraits and led cartons of glass paintings.

His daughters Marie Oesterley and Ilse Oesterley were also painters, as well as his son Carl Oesterley junior.

His daughter Julie married the chemist Karl herb.

Works

Numerous works Oesterleys can be found today in the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover.

Dubbed works:

  • The daughter of Jephthah (1836 )
  • Christ Blessing the Children (1841 )
  • The Ascension of Christ, fresco in the Castle Church in Hanover (1838 completed )
  • Scene from citizen " Lenore "
  • Sleeping Beauty ( 1861)
  • Christ as Savior, a former altarpiece for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bad Iburg castle as a gift from King George V
  • Hans Memling in the Hospital at Bruges (1865 )
  • Blankenese (1906 )
  • Hamburg- Uhlenhorst with the Uhlenhorster ferry
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