Franz Ludwig Catel
Franz Ludwig Catel ( born February 22, 1778 in Berlin, † December 19, 1856 in Rome ) was a German wood sculptor and painter.
Life and work
Franz Ludwig Catel was the son of the Huguenot Pierre Frédéric Catel (1747-1791) and his wife Elisabeth Wilhelmine, born Rousset (1757-1809), to the world. His father was an assessor at the French court in Berlin. He had a brother, the architect and painter Friedrich Ludwig Catel (1776-1819), and a sister, Henriette Francoise Catel ( born February 28, 1781 in Berlin, † July 18, 1781 in Berlin).
Franz Ludwig Catel was originally a wood sculptor, then devoted himself to painting. He illustrated successful books, including for personal acquaintance with Goethe on the trip to Paris in 1797 the Hermann and Dorothea. On November 23, 1806 he was elected a full member of the Berlin Academy. From this time he painted in oil. His travels, on which his brother Friedrich Ludwig Catel accompanied him, led him in 1811 to Paris, where Franz Ludwig Catel for a time resided and acquired the French technology and to Switzerland. The grandeur of the Alps Natural impressed him so much that he devoted himself to landscape painting and settled in Rome in 1811. There he joined the circle of artists around Joseph Anton Koch, the central figure among the German painters in Rome. Germany, he visited only occasionally. In 1830 he settled on his estate at Macerata in the March of Ancona. Through his art he achieved considerable prosperity, so that he could establish a foundation for young artists in Rome to life solely from his private fortune, which exists today as the Pio Istituto Catel and was also the sole heir of the childless couple. On his long trip to Germany in 1840, In 1841 he received the title of professor.
He painted historical, genre, and especially landscapes, which he owes his reputation. He had carefully the effect of perspective in mind and was anxious at all to reproduce faithfully the sunny splendor of the Italian regions, light effects. His landscapes connect the camera to the stylistic direction. The lines and shapes are sharper pointed than the color, which suffers from dryness and hardness. Franz Ludwig Catel is classified in the landscape painting of the group of stylists to Joseph Anton Koch, but also maintained friendly relationship with Friedrich Overbeck and the Nazarenes, which he held artistic distance.
Works ( incomplete)
- 30 pictures of Horace's works. Gest. under d shows LINE v. Carl Ludwig Frommel after Zeichngn v. Catel, Frommel etc. Kunstverlag. Carlsruhe to 1830. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
- Walk in Palermo, before 1846, oil on canvas, 133 × 220 cm, auction October 2011 at the Dorotheum, Vienna
- The game church in Appenzell with procession, 1798 Pen and gray, watercolor, 32.5 x 48.5 cm.
Gallery
Illustration to Goethe's " Hermann and Dorothea "
View from Ariccia against the sea
" Walk the Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna in Palermo ," before 1846, Dorotheum auction
Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria with his friends in the Spanish Tavern in Rome, 1823