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Otto Mengelberg
Otto Heinrich Mengelberg (April 1817, Cologne - 28 May 1890, Düsseldorf) was a German religious, portrait, and history painter, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Life and work He was the second son of the portrait painter, Egidius Mengelberg and his wife, Anne Lisette née Risse, of Elberfeld. His birth came a few months after their formal marriage, which was delayed due to her parents' objections to marrying a Catholic. After attending the Dreikönigsgymnasium, a Jesuit school, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1834 to 1842. His primary instructors were Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow. During that time, in 1840, he converted to Protestantism. Upon graduating, he went to Munich with his friend and colleague, Joseph Fay (artist), Joseph Fay; returning to Cologne in 1844. Later, he assisted Fay in painting the Elberfeld Town Hall; which is now the Von der Heydt Museum. He and Fay also collaborated on the designs for the restorat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazarene Movement
The epithet Nazarene was adopted by a group of early 19th-century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive spirituality in art. The name Nazarene came from a term of derision used against them for their affectation of a biblical manner of clothing and hair style. History In 1809, six students at the Vienna Academy formed an artistic cooperative in Vienna called the Brotherhood of St. Luke or ''Lukasbund'', following a common name for medieval guilds of painters. In 1810 four of them, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Franz Pforr, Ludwig Vogel and Johann Konrad Hottinger (1788-1827) moved to Rome, where they occupied the abandoned monastery of San Isidoro. They were joined by Philipp Veit, Peter von Cornelius, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow and a loose grouping of other German-speaking artists. They met up with Austrian romantic landscape artist Joseph Anton Koch (1768–1839) who became an unofficial tutor to the group. In 1827 they were joined by Jose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century German Male Artists
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century German Painters
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1890 Deaths
Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 189 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city. China * Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty. * Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. * Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences * Galen publishes his ''"Treatise on the various temperaments"'' (aka '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1817 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Sailing through the Sandwich Islands, Otto von Kotzebue discovers New Year Island. * January 19 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the Andes from Argentina, to liberate Chile and then Peru. * January 20 – Ram Mohan Roy and David Hare found Hindu College, Calcutta, offering instructions in Western languages and subjects. * February 12 – Battle of Chacabuco: The Argentine–Chilean patriotic army defeats the Spanish. * March 3 ** President James Madison vetoes John C. Calhoun's Bonus Bill. ** The U.S. Congress passes a law to split the Mississippi Territory, after Mississippi drafts a constitution, creating the Alabama Territory, effective in August. * March 4 – James Monroe is sworn in as the fifth President of the United States. * March 21 – The flag of the Pernambucan Revolt is publicly blessed by the dean of Recife Cathedral, Brazil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Wiegmann
Heinrich Ernst Gottfried Rudolf Wiegmann (17 April 1804, Nordstemmen – 17 April 1865, Düsseldorf) was a German painter, archaeologist, art historian, graphic artist and architect. He worked in the Classical style and, as a painter, is best known for his vedute. His wife, Marie Wiegmann, whom he married in 1841, was also a painter of some note. Biography He came from a military family. His father was a Lieutenant (later Captain) in the Tenth Infantry Regiment and was killed at the Battle of Waterloo, where he was serving as an adjutant to Colonel . As a child, he often visited St.Dionysius Church in Nordstemmen and its Gothic architecture left a deep impression on him. He began by studying architecture, mathematics and astronomy at the "Ratsgymnasium" in Hanover, where his family had relocated after his father's death. One of his childhood friends was August Heinrich Andreae, who would later become the City Architect for Hanover. After 1823, he and Andreae attended the Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Jakob Merlo
Johann Jakob Merlo (25 October 1810 – 27 October 1890) was a German historian, antiquarian and poet. References *Keussen, Hermann (1906), " Merlot, Johann Jakob", ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (in German) 52, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 329. External links * Johann Jakob Merloon the German-language Wikisource Wikisource is an online digital library of free-content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikisource is the name of the project as a whole and the name for each instance of that project (each instance usually rep ... 1810 births 1890 deaths Writers from Cologne German poets German antiquarians 19th-century German historians 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers {{Germany-historian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorine Nordenswan
Victorine Nordenswan (1838—1872) was a Finnish painter in the Düsseldorf tradition, specialising in religious themes, and notable as one of the first professional female artists of Finland. Visual art in the mid-19th century was male-dominated, but Nordenswan was considered to be exceptionally talented, and widely expected to make a significant career as an artist. However, she died of tuberculosis at age 34. Nordenswan trained at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 1860–1862, and from 1864 onwards in Düsseldorf. Her public debut was in 1861, and she won in the Finnish Art Society's ' the second prize in 1865, followed by the first prize in 1867. Among her best-known works are ''St. John the Evangelist'' (1866) and ''Women Mourning at Christ’s Grave'' (1868), both today housed at the Finnish National Gallery Finnish National Gallery ( fi, Suomen Kansallisgalleria, sv, Finlands Nationalgalleri) is the largest art museum institution of Finland. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Johan Löfgren
Erik Johan Löfgren (15 May 1825, Turku - 10 December 1884, Turku) was a Finnish-Swedish portrait painter. Biography He was born to a family of merchants. His first art lessons came from a Norwegian-born drawing teacher named T.J. Legler who, together with his friends, convinced Löfgren's father that he should be sent to Stockholm for further studies.Erik Johan Löfgren by Antonella Storti @ BlogSpot. He was enrolled at the in Stockholm from 1842 to 1852 and studied with Fredric Westin. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin
Alexandra Theodora Frosterus-Såltin (6 December 1837, Ingå – 29 February 1916, Vaasa) was a Finnish-Swedish genre painter and illustrator, who is also known for her altarpieces. Biography Her father, Benjamin, was a theology professor and her mother, Vilhelmina, was Finland's first female graduate student. Her mother died when he was seven, and her father remarried in 1846. Most of her childhood was spent in Vaasa, where her father was a church official. At the age of fourteen, she left home to become a private student of Robert Wilhelm Ekman in Turku, and studied with him for five years.Biographical notes @ Kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli. In 1858, on Ekman's recommendation, she was asked to provide drawings for a publication of the Raittiuden Seuran ( |
