Christian Leberecht Vogel

Christian Leberecht Vogel ( born April 4, 1759 in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, † April 11, 1816 in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony ) was a German painter, draftsman and art theorist.

Life

The son of a Saxon Hofsattlers made ​​very early attracted attention by his artistic talent. So the "miracle child " has already been nine years of the painter Johann Eleazar Zeissig called Schenau (1737-1806), taught at the Dresden Art Academy, where he soon received a training grant for his outstanding achievements.

1780 his education was completed at the Academy and he came through his connections as a Freemason by Wildenfels. There he was to work both as a court painter as well as an educator of children of Magnus I. Graf zu Solms- Wildenfels. From this period also book illustrations were in the Masonic sense.

His tasks, in addition to documenting the family portraits to make two rooms with large ceiling paintings and enrich a variety of spaces with sopraportas belonged. He was active even as an architect; a hunting lodge was realized after his Masonic design ideas.

In Wildenfels he married Wilhelmine 1785 Liidecke, the chambermaid. From this marriage, his first son, Carl Christian Vogel, who was knighted in 1831 as the Saxon court painter and professor of the Academy with the addition of Vogelstein comes.

Bird's effective range was not only restricted to wild rock, but he also worked a great deal for the counts in the neighborhood, especially for those of Schoenburg and von Einsiedel. Meanwhile, he has also excelled in his specialist area, the portrait of a child and made ​​a name with his soulful, witty illustrations.

In 1804 he went back to Dresden to take there at the Academy teaching assignments. In 1814 he was hired as a full professor. Near the Hotel Bellevue today a summer house, designed by Christian Friedrich Schuricht was from 1811 to 1814 built for birds, called Vogelsche garden shed. Bird died in 1816 in Dresden. His grave is located on the Trinity Cemetery in Dresden.

Today you can still appreciate about bird images, the humanist message of his sensibility shaped by the image of man, which he sensitively tracked down in various techniques to give it color and shape with a sensitive, sensualist expression. The Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden has his paintings child with doll and The Master's sons.

Publications

• Ideas about the beauty of teaching in terms of visible objects in general and on the visual arts in particular. , Dresden 1812
• Reflections on the shape and local conditions of brightness and darkness of matter surrounding the comet ..., Dresden 1812
• Ideas for color theory ( handwritten draft), reprinted in Hermann Vogel von Vogelstein, The theory of colors of the Christian Leberecht Vogel, Dissertation Greifswald 1998