Karl Wilhelm Gropius (German Karl Wilhelm Gropius, also Carl Wilhelm Gropius , * April 4, 1793. Braunschweig ; † February 20, 1870 Berlin ) - German artist, professor of painting.
Life and work
K.-V. Gropius the son of William Ernst Gropius and his wife Lucy (nee Graffer). He studied painting in Berlin with the famous landscape painter Karl Friedrich Schinkel . Later in Paris, he studied the skills of creating dioramas developed by Louis Daguerre and Charles Marie Buton . The artist also visited Italy and Greece; from these countries he brought home a large number of sketches and sketches, which he used to create his own diorama in 1827. K.-V. Gropius was also involved in decorative art and theater design. Since 1819 he was an artist of the court theater in Berlin, he also worked for other Berlin theater scenes. In this capacity, he, among other things, was the author of the scenery for the first production of the opera " Free Shooter " by Karl Maria von Weber in the Theater House in Berlin. In 1846, Gropius published in 12 albums his sketches and sketches made by him during his travels abroad. In the same year, a collection was published with a collection of various ornaments and arabesques created by this artist-designer.
In 1820, K.-V. Gropius marries Claudine Costa (1801-1827). They had three children - Paul, Elizabeth and Anthony. Paul Gropius, like his father, became a theater artist, worked at the Berlin Court Theater. The son of the daughter of K.-V. Gropius Anthony, Paul Flickel , became a landscape painter.
Literature
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19. und 20. Jahrhundert , Hannover 1996, S. 227f.
- Erich Stenger, Daguerres Diorama in Berlin. Ein Beitrag zur Vorgeschichte der Photographie , Berlin 1925.