Ernst Joachim Förster
Ernst Joachim Förster ( born April 8, 1800 Münchengosserstädt an der Saale, now the town hall board; † April 29, 1885 in Munich) was a German painter who holds a doctorate in art historian, art writer and poet.
Life
Förster, son of the pastor and church poet Karl Christoph Förster and younger brother of the historian and poet Friedrich Christoph Förster, devoted theological and philosophical studies and painting, to which he was at last, in particular by Peter von Cornelius ' personal influence attracted. After he made studies after Titian, and Holbein in Dresden in 1822, he entered in 1823 in Munich, in the school of Cornelius, his first attempts made in the frescoes in the Glyptothek, worked under his authority in January 1824 to the autumn of 1825 Hermanns large fresco Picture of theology later in the Bonner auditorium and took part in the decoration of the Hofgarten arcades and in the execution of the images in Königsbau in Munich.
Work as an art historian
An Order of the Crown Prince Maximilian of Bavaria, to customize in Italy drawings by old masters, led him to art historical research, which he published as "Contributions to the more recent history of art " ( Leipz. 1836), for which he was the University of Tübingen conferred the doctorate. Following the biography of his father Jean Paul, which he had to continue after the death of the first publisher, he wrote of " truth from Jean Paul's Life" the 4 -8. Band ( Bresl. 1827-33 ); also he gave "Political echoes of Jean Paul " ( Heidelb. 1832) out and took from 1836 to 1838 on the publication of whose estate and letters the principal portion as a short biography of the poet for the issue of the " Selected Works " (Vol. 16, Berl., 1849) and delivered the " kite " ( Franks. 1845 Tle 2 ) thereof and " Memoirs of the life of Jean Paul Friedr. Judge " ( Muench. 1863, 4 vols ) edited.
After Schorn's death, he took part in 1842 with Franz Kugler in Berlin at the editorial office of the "Art Journal " and led the translation begun by Schorn of Vasari's "Life of the most eminent painters, sculptors, and architects " ( Stuttg. 1843-1849, 6 vols ) to end.
Other art historical works
He also wrote: " representations of C. F. Zimmermann's estate "(Berlin 1825); "Guide to the consideration of wall and ceiling paintings of the new Königsbaues in Munich" ( Muench. 1834); " Letters on painting, in relation to the painting collections in Berlin, Dresden, Munich, etc. " ( Stuttg. 1838); " Munich, a handbook for foreigners and natives " ( Muench. 1838, 8th edition 1858); "Handbook for travelers in Italy " (ibid. 1840, 8th edition 1862, also French); " The Wall Paintings of St. George Chapel in Padua " ( Berl. 1841); Handbook for travelers in Germany " ( Muench. 1847, 2nd ed 1853. ); " J. G. Müller, a poet and artist life "(St. Gallen 1851); "Life and works of Fra Angelico da Fiesole ," with drawings by his hand ( Regensburg 1859); etc " preschool art history ", with many woodcuts ( Leipz. 1862); " Monuments of German architecture, visual art and painting", with 300 drawings, largely from his hand (ibid. 1853-69, 12 vols ); "History of German art " (ibid. 1851-1860, 5 vols, of which the two last also published separately under the title "History of the New German Art ", 1863, with many illustrations ); " Miscellaneous Writings " ( Muench. 1862); "Journey through Belgium to Paris and Burgundy " ( Leipz. 1865); the biography " Raphael " (ibid. 1867-69, 2 vols ); " History of Italian Art " ( das.1869 -78, 5 vols ); " Monuments of Italian paintings ", with many drawings by his hand (ibid. 1870-82, 4 vols ); " Peter von Cornelius, a book of remembrance " ( Berl. 1874, 2 vols ); " Peter von Cornelius ' designs for the frescoes in the loggias of the Pinakothek of Munich," with pictures of the same H. Merz ( Leipz. 1874); " The German art in image and word " (ibid. 1879).
Works
- Handbook for travelers in Italy. 4 verb. and presumably edition / with a signpost for sufferers of Rudolph Wagner. Cotta, Munich 1848 ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )