Erich Correns

Erich Correns ( March 3, 1821 in Cologne, † June 4, 1877 in Munich) was a German genre and portrait painter.

Life and work

Erich Correns studied on his father, the Appeals Council Karl Theodor Correns request ( born April 26, 1776 † February 24, 1843 ), first law in Bonn, Munich, Heidelberg and Cologne. Inspired by the encouragement from his art teacher at the high school, the painter Franz Bourel Everhard, who taught him drawing and lithograph, he began to prepare a student portraits and group photos of his fellow students. Through portraits of distinguished citizens, such as Christian Friedrich Kapp, he earned a reputation as a portrait painter.

In Munich Correns established contact to scholars and fellow artists, including the painter Karl Schorn, August Löffler, Anselm Feuerbach and the brothers Carl Theodor and Ferdinand of Piloty and the philologist Friedrich Wilhelm Thiersch; he began to paint in oil and procured by orders of aristocratic and bourgeois Munich society soon a reputation that made him in the 1850s and 1860s one of the most sought-after portraitist and painter company. In an effort to evade the call of fashion painter, designed Erich Correns increasingly genre and landscape images and also devoted himself to religious subjects.

Among his pupils were next to Franz Reiff Wilhelm Marc, J. Wölfle and Franz Maria Ingenmey, the replicated several of his portraits in color printing.