Jakob Götzenberger

Jacob Götzenberger ( Franz Jakob Julius Götzenberger, * November 4, 1802 in Heidelberg, † October 6, 1866 in Darmstadt ) was a German painter.

Life

Götzenberger was one of the first students of Peter von Cornelius ( since 1820), held from 1828-32 in Italy, and then devoted himself to three years jointly with Carl Heinrich Hermann and Ernst Förster the frescoes of the auditorium of the University of Bonn, the first monumental work Düsseldorf school of Cornelius, with him with their representatives fell to the main content of the philosophy and jurisprudence of the figure- rich representations of the four faculties. At this time Götzenberger was, inter alia, friend of the southwest German portrait painter Louis Krevel, the anfertigete also a portrait of him.

Later he was appointed court painter and gallery Baden inspector in Mannheim. On behalf of Baroness Josefa Ursula von Herding he decorated the chapel of the Dalberg - Herding'schen castle in Nierstein ( Rheinhessen ) with a fresco cycle, painted 1844, the drinking hall in Baden -Baden with representations from the fairy tales of the Black Forest.

Soon after, he laid his body down as a gallery inspector on a background of personal failings and left Germany. Götzenberger lived henceforth in England, where he worked as a portrait and fresco painter and in London the large central atrium in Bridgewater House, the Palace of the Earl of Ellesmere and Northumberland House, the seat of the Duke of Northumberland, adorned with murals.