Karl Pohlke

Karl Wilhelm Pohlke ( born January 28, 1810 in Berlin, † November 27, 1876 ) was a German history, genre, portrait and landscape painter named after him " set of Pohlke " was held for the perspective painting.

Life

Karl Wilhelm Pohlke received his education painter Wilhelm Hensel at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin and made ​​her debut in 1832 at the local art exhibition. After graduation, he earned his living for some years with landscape painting and gave private lessons in the art of perspective drawing. 1835 Pohlke went to France, where he further trained at the École des Beaux -Arts in Louis Étienne Watelet and Léon Cogniet and 1843 to Italy. After 10 - year absence, he moved back to Berlin in 1845. There he got in 1849 at the Royal Academy of Architecture a job as a lecturer and wurde1860 professor of descriptive geometry and perspective to the building and at the same time at the Art Academy.

Between 1860 and 1876 he published a textbook in two volumes on descriptive geometry, which deals with the eponymous " set of Pohlke ", or even " law of Axonometric " in the first volume: Each level, real two-dimensional " tripod " OABC can be used as parallel projection a spatially - Cartesian tripod O'A'B'C ' are obtained. with this sentence to the proof of which he had struggled in vain since 1853, he already was first a mathematical formulation and thus a theoretical justification for the practice in the picturesque since Renaissance representation method applied in architectural views or perspective freehand drawings. the sentence is regarded as one of the most remarkable contributions of an artist to mathematics.

Works (selection)

• Fountain at Lake Lucerne, mid 19th century
• Look at Glienicke, in Glienicke Palace, Berlin