Jacob Gotzenberger ( him. Franz Jakob Julius Götzenberger ; November 4, 1802 , Heidelberg - October 6, 1866 , Darmstadt ) - German and English artist. He worked in the genre of chamber portrait . Created murals on mythological subjects.
| Jacob Götzenberger | |
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 Portrait of Louis Crevel , 1834 | |
| Date of Birth | November 4, 1802 |
| Place of Birth | Heidelberg |
| Date of death | October 6, 1866 (63 years) |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |
| Citizenship | Germany |
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Biography
Born in Heidelberg , he studied with Peter Josef von Cornelius , first in Düsseldorf , then in Munich .
In the mid-1820s, he visited London, where he met with many famous artists and poets. As Henry Crabbe Robinson testifies in his diary, returning to Germany, Götzenberger said: "I have seen many talented people in England, and only three geniuses - Coleridge , Flaxmann and Blake , and Blake of them is the greatest."
Then he studied in Rome and Naples in 1828. Together with Ernst Förster and Carl Heinrich Hermann ( Carl Heinrich Hermann ) in 1832, he painted the audience at the University of Bonn with frescos. The murals in the church in Nirstein were also highly praised by contemporaries.
F. Chopin in 1838.
Gotzenberger was appointed inspector of the gallery in Mannheim, visited Paris and London along with Cornelius, and in 1844 painted Trinkhalle frescoes (“drinking pavilion” - the mineral water hall) in Baden-Baden on the plots of the Black Forest legends (“black forest” in southern Germany) . In 1847 he went to England, where he painted many portraits and frescoes.
It is mentioned that he wrote a series of works on the plots of Dante's Divine Comedy for Mr. Morrison [1] .
His interiors were praised in The Spectator weekly (English) for "the true and pleasant transmission of light and shade, naturalness and expediency in portraits and faithfulness of the drawing" [2] .
The collection of the Oxford Jesus College (English) contains a genre painting by Götzenberger: a group portrait in the interior of Henry Fawkes (English) (1773–1857), Thomas Brisco (English) (1813–1895) and William Dyke (1814– 1880) [3] . Gotzenberger lived in London on Berners Street , 46. In 1859, he naturalized as a British subject [4] . The years from 1863 to 1865 he spent in Lucerne , in Switzerland .
Jacob Götzenberger died in Darmstadt on October 6, 1866.
Mineral Hall in Baden-Baden
Fresco 1
Fresco 2
Mural 3
Mural 4
Fresco 5
Mural 6
Mural 7
Mural 8
Mural 9
Fresco 10
Fresco 11
Fresco 12
Fresco 13
Fresco 14
Grafensprung trinkhalle
Notes
- ↑ Herr Gotzenberg. Art Journal: 266. 1855.
- ↑ Works by Herr Götzenberg (Eng.) // The Spectator. - February 16, 1816. - p . 196 .
- ↑ Conversation Piece, Henry Foulkes, Thomas Briscoe and William Dyke . BBC Your Paintings. Date of circulation is February 10, 2016. (English)
- ↑ Naturalisation Papers: Gotzenberg, Francis, from Baden. Certificate 2976 issued July 13, 1859 . The National Archives . Date of circulation is February 10, 2016. (English)