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Carl Johann Adolf Eggers (1 October 1787,
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Carl Johann Adolf Eggers (1 October 1787, Neustrelitz
Neustrelitz (; ) is a town in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated on the shore of the Zierker See in the Mecklenburg Lake District. From 1738 until 1918 it was the capital o ...
– 24 July 1863, Neustrelitz) was a German history painter
History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a narrative story, most often (but not exclusively) Greek mythology, Greek and Roman my ...
.
Life and work
From 1809 to 1812, he studied at theDresden Academy of Fine Arts
The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German language, German ''Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden''), often abbreviated HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located in Dresden, Germany. The present institutio ...
, with the history painter, Friedrich Matthäi
Johann Friedrich Matthäi (3 March 1777, Meissen - 23 October 1845, Vienna) was a German portrait and history painter.Ent ...
. After graduating, in 1813, he made a study trip to Italy. He returned there, three years later, and lived in Rome until 1830. There, became a member of 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 ...
, led by Friedrich Overbeck
Johann Friedrich Overbeck (3 July 1789 – 12 November 1869) was a German painter and a founder of the Nazarene art movement.
Early life and education
Overbeck was born in Lübeck in 1789. His family had been Protestant pastors for three genera ...
.
In 1819, he married Elisabeth Seitz; sister of the engraver, Johann Baptist Seitz (1786–1850).
During this time, he devoted himself primarily to fresco
Fresco ( or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting become ...
painting. He also made detailed examinations of older frescoes, in chemical and mechanical terms, and is credited with developing new techniques for creating them. He worked together with Philipp Veit
Philipp Veit (13 February 179318 December 1877) was a German Romantic painter and one of the main exponents of the Nazarene movement. It is to Veit that the credit of having been the first to revive the nearly forgotten technique of fresc ...
at the Museo Chiaramonti
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in Vatican City
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, where he painted a version of ''Roma
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People, characters, figures, names
* Roma or Romani people, an ethnic group living mostly in Europe and the Americas.
* Roma called Roy, ancient Egyptian High Priest of Amun
* Roma (footballer, born 1979), born ''Paul ...
'', the personification of the City of Rome, for the Vatican coin collection.
After returning to Germany, he created a version of " Christ Washing the Feet of the Apostles" for Naumburg Cathedral Naumburg Cathedral (, ), located in Naumburg, Germany, is the former cathedral of the Bishopric of Naumburg-Zeitz. The church building, most of which dates back to the 13th century, is a renowned landmark of the German late Romanesque architecture, ...
, on behalf of Canon Ampach. From 1847 to 1848, together with Wilhelm Schütze, he worked on frescoes designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, urban planning, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed b ...
in the hall of the Altes Museum
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. His frescoes in the Chapel at the cemetery in Neustrelitz have not survived.
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 (painter), Karl Abt (1899–1985)
* Tomma Abts (born 1967)
* Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910)
* Oswald ...
Sources
* * "Eggers, Carl". In: ''Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon
Thieme-Becker is a German biographical dictionary of artists.
Thieme-Becker
The dictionary was begun under the editorship of Ulrich Thieme (1865–1922) (volumes one to fifteen) and Felix Becker (1864–1928) (volumes one to four). It was compl ...
'',. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker (AKL). Vol.32, Saur, 2002, , pp. 341 f.
* Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, "Eggers, Carl (Johann C.)", ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', vol. 10, E. A. Seemann, 1914 pp. 377–378Online
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eggers, Carl 1787 births 1863 deaths 19th-century German painters German male painters People from Neustrelitz 19th-century painters of historical subjects Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin 19th-century German male artists Nazarene painters Dresden Academy of Fine Arts alumni Painters from Rome