
Johann (Kaspar) Benedikt Beckenkamp (1747–1828) was a German painter.
Life
Beckenkamp was born in 1747 in the valley of
Ehrenbreitstein, near
Koblenz
Koblenz (; Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz''), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, a multi-nation tributary.
Koblenz was established as a Roman military post by Drusus around 8 B.C. Its na ...
. He studied under his father Lorenz Beckenkamp and
Jan Zick, at Koblenz. At first he devoted himself to painting landscapes, after
C. G. Schütz
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; 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
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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 (182 ...
Notes
References
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External links
Biographyat 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
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