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Christian Köhler (13 October 1809, Werben - 30 January 1861, Montpellier) was a German painter, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule, although his style owes much to the
Online
* Hans Vollmer, "Köhler, Christian", In: ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker (Eds.), Vol.21, Knip–Krüger, E. A. Seemann, 1923 * Wend von Kalnein: ''Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule.'' Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, pg. 365 f.
Christian Köhler (13 October 1809, Werben - 30 January 1861, Montpellier) was a German painter, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule, although his style owes much to the 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 c ...
.
Life and work
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, he became acquainted with the painter, Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow
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He was born in Berlin, the second son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, who gave him his first lessons in drawing. He then turne ...
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(Ed.): ''Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819–1918.'' Michael Imhof Verlag
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, Petersberg 2011, , Vol.2 When Schadow moved from Berlin to Düsseldorf
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, he followed and became one of his private students. In 1827, he enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
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, where he progressed to the master classes by 1837. That same year, he participated in the exhibition at the that established the "Düsseldorfer Schule".
In 1851, he took part in a major exhibition at the . From 1852, he was a Professor and assistant to Theodor Hildebrandt
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He was a disci ...
at the Kunstakademie; succeeding him as head of the Antikensaals (antiquities collection) in 1855, when Hildebrandt became too ill to work. During the school year of 1859/60, he became ill himself and went to Southern France, seeking a cure. He died there the following year.
He was a member of the progressive artists' association, Malkasten
Malkasten (English: "Paintbox") is a progressive German artists' association, founded in Düsseldorf in 1848, during the March Revolution. Since 1867, their headquarters have been in the Pempelfort district.
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During the unrest in 1848, ...
. His well known students include Heinrich von Angeli, Carl Hertel
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Life and work
From 1855 to 1858, he attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where ...
, Olaf Isaachsen
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He was born in Mandal in Vest-Agder county Norway. Isaachsen belonged to a branch of an affluent and educated merchant family fr ...
, Vincent Stoltenberg Lerche, Zdzisław Suchodolski and . Many of his works were reproduced as engravings or lithographs.
References
Further reading
* * "Köhler, Christian". In: Friedrich von Boetticher: ''Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts. Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte''. Vols. 1/2, Heideck–Mayer, 1895, pp. 724–725Online
* Hans Vollmer, "Köhler, Christian", In: ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker (Eds.), Vol.21, Knip–Krüger, E. A. Seemann, 1923 * Wend von Kalnein: ''Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule.'' Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, pg. 365 f.
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