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Johann (Kaspar) Benedikt Beckenkamp (1747–1828) was a German painter.
Biography
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(in German language) 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters 19th-century German painters 1747 births 1828 deaths Artists from Koblenz 19th-century German male artists {{Germany-painter-stub
Johann (Kaspar) Benedikt Beckenkamp (1747–1828) was a German painter.
Life
Beckenkamp was born in 1747 in the valley ofEhrenbreitstein
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress (german: Festung Ehrenbreitstein, ) is a fortress in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the east bank of the Rhine where it is joined by the Moselle, overlooking the town of Koblenz.
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, near Koblenz. He studied under his father Lorenz Beckenkamp and Jan Zick, at Koblenz. At first he devoted himself to painting landscapes, after C. G. Schütz; but later changed to portraiture. He settled at Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...
, and successfully imitated the style of painting of the old German masters.
Several portraits by Beckenkamp are in the Wallraf Museum, Cologne. For the church of St Maria Lyskirchen in Cologne, he painted a copy of a triptych with a central panel of the Pietà by Joos van Cleve
Joos van Cleve (; also Joos van der Beke; c. 1485–1490 – 1540/1541) was a leading painter active in Antwerp from his arrival there around 1511 until his death in 1540 or 1541. Within Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, he combines the tr ...
, the original of which (now in the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt) had been sold a few years before.
He died in Cologne in 1828.
See also
*List of German painters
This is a list of German painters.
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* Hans von Aachen (1552–1615)
* Aatifi (born 1965)
* Karl Abt (1899–1985)
* Tomma Abts (born 1967)
* Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910)
* Oswald Achenbach (1827 ...
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Biography
at the History Portal of ''Landschaftverband Rheinland'' (in German language)
at the Portal o
EPOCHE NAPOLEON
(in German language) 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters 19th-century German painters 1747 births 1828 deaths Artists from Koblenz 19th-century German male artists {{Germany-painter-stub