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Wilhelm Titel (16 February 1784 – 2 March 1862) was a German painter and academic drawing teacher at the
Wilhelm Titel (16 February 1784 – 2 March 1862) was a German painter and academic drawing teacher at the University of Greifswald
The University of Greifswald (; german: Universität Greifswald), formerly also known as “Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald“, is a public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pom ...
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Life and career
Born was born inBoltenhagen
Boltenhagen () is a German seaside resort in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern situated on the Baltic Sea coast 30 km east of Lübeck. It has a wide view of the Bay of Lübeck; a 5 km stretch of a wide and sandy beach, a boardwalk, restaurants and ...
. He began his theological studies at the University of Greifswald
The University of Greifswald (; german: Universität Greifswald), formerly also known as “Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald“, is a public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pom ...
, which he soon abandoned in favor of painting. He received his education in 1801 at the Kunstakademie Dresden and from 1802 to 1806 at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien. Titel gave his study collection still to Vienna where he was influenced by the French painter René Théodore Berthon (1776-1859). From 1806 to 1819 he lived in Italy, mainly in Rome and Florence, where he lived with Jakob Philipp Hackert
Jacob Philipp Hackert (15 September 1737 – 28 April 1807) was a landscape painter from Brandenburg, who did most of his work in Italy.
Biography
Hackert was born in 1737 in Prenzlau in the Margraviate of Brandenburg (now in Germany). He t ...
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1819 he returned to Vorpommern
Historical Western Pomerania, also called Cispomerania, Fore Pomerania, Front Pomerania or Hither Pomerania (german: Vorpommern), is the western extremity of the historic region of Pomerania forming the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, Weste ...
after the death of his father and worked first in Stralsund as a portrait painter
Portrait Painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public and pr ...
. In 1826 he became the successor of Johann Gottfried Quistorp University drawing teacher in the drawing room of the University of Greifswald, today's Caspar David Friedrich Institute. He made studies after old Italian masters and many characteristic portraits of university professors, which hang today again in the council hall of the University of Greifswald. He also painted northern German landscapes. In 1851 he was appointed professor.
During his lifetime, he donated his study collection to the University of Greifswald
The University of Greifswald (; german: Universität Greifswald), formerly also known as “Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald“, is a public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pom ...
. A collection of 124 sheets is preserved there today.
Title died in Greifswald
Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rosto ...
at the age of 78.
Further reading
* Vogt: ''Lebenserinnerungen des Malers Wilhelm Titel''. In Pommersche Jahrbücher, 3 (1902), . * ''Greifswalder Maler des späten 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhunderts. Gemälde - Graphik.'' Museum der Stadt Greifswald, Greifswald 1963. * ''Titel, Wilhelm''. In Grete Grewolls: ''Wer war wer in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern? Ein Personenlexikon''. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, , . * Klaus Haese: ''Der Greifswalder Maler Wilhelm Titel, ein Zeitgenosse Julius Schnorr von Carolsfelds.'' InGerd-Helge Vogel
Gerd-Helge Vogel (born 18 April 1951) is a German art historian.
Life
Vogel was born in Zwickau (Saxony) and grew up as the son of the dentist Helmut Vogel and his wife ''Lisa'', ''née'' Leupold, in Hartenstein in the Erzgebirge. From 1966 ...
(publisher): ''Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld und die Kunst der Romantik: Publikation der Beiträge zur VII. Greifswalder Romantikkonferenz in Schneeberg, veranstaltet vom Caspar-David-Friedrich-Institut der Universität Greifswald vom 30. September bis 3. Oktober 1994.'' Greifswald 1996.
* Stephan Kohls: ''Die Studiensammlung des akademischen Zeichenlehrers Wilhelm Titel.'' In ''Pommern. Zeitschrift für Kultur und Geschichte.'' Heft 1/2008, , S. 30–35.
* Otto Schmitt, Victor Schultze (edit.): ''Wilhelm Titels Bildnisse Greifswalder Professoren: Zum 475jähr. Jubiläum d. Univ. Greifswald.'' Ratsbuchhandlung Bamberg, Greifswald 1931.
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Titel, Wilhelm Academic staff of the University of Greifswald German art historians 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists 1784 births 1862 deaths Artists from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania People from Bezirk Rostock