Entering of Grand Master Siegfried von Feuchtwangen to Malbork Castle

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (7 March 1781,

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- 8 April 1853, Berlin) was a German painter. He was generally referred to as The Younger to distinguish him from his uncle, the etcher and art teacher, Carl Wilhelm Kolbe.

Life and work

He studied at the

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with

Daniel Chodowiecki Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki (16 October 1726 – 7 February 1801) was a German painter and printmaker of Huguenot and Polish ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher. He spent most of his life in Berlin, and became the director of the Berlin Acad ...

. His first large historical work, " Death at the

Battle of Fehrbellin The Battle of Fehrbellin was fought on June 18, 1675 (Julian calendar date, June 28th, Gregorian), between Swedish and Brandenburg-Prussian troops. The Swedes, under Count Waldemar von Wrangel (stepbrother of '' Riksamiral'' Carl Gustaf Wrange ...

", a

pastel A pastel () is an art medium in a variety of forms including a stick, a square a pebble or a pan of color; though other forms are possible; they consist of powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those use ...

painting, earned him a prize from the Academy in 1796. His oil paintings were heavily influenced by the

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. His monumental work in that style, " Albrecht Achilles Conquers a Flag Near Nuremberg" (1806), was purchased by the city of Berlin as a present for

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, when she left on a tour of the Netherlands. Also notable are an "

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" for the church at Sanssouci palace,

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

es depicting scenes from the '' Nibelungenlied'' at the

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, "

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Battling the Hungarians", and " Barbarossa's Corpse near

Antioch Antioch on the Orontes (; grc-gre, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, ''Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou'', Learned ; also Syrian Antioch) grc-koi, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπ� ...

", at the

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. He was known for his meticulous attention to detail when rendering Medieval costumes. For the ten decorated windows at

Ordensburg Marienburg The Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork ( pl, Zamek w Malborku; german: Ordensburg Marienburg) is a 13th-century Teutonic castle and fortress located near the town of Malbork, Poland. It is the largest castle in the world measured by land a ...

, he created both the color sketches and the finished kartons; depicting the battles and victories of the

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. From 1815 to 1853 he was a member of the Prussian Academy, was named a Professor in 1830, and was on the Academic Senate in 1846.

Sources

* * Charlotte Steinbrucker: "Kolbe, Carl Wilhelm, d. Jüng". In: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart''. Vol.21: Knip–Krüger. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1927, pp. 226–228.

External links

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