Carl Blechen
Paintings, Drawings
View of Roofs and Gardens
The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam
Forest interior with pond
Mill in a valley
Forest path near Spandau
Italian Landscape
Tiberius rocks at Capri
Path through an Oak Forest
Gorge near Amalfi
Woman Bathing in the Park of Terni
Gothic Church Ruin
Bathing girls in the park of Terni
The blasted tower of the Heidelberg Castle
Grotto in the park of Villa d'Este near Rome
Palm house on the peacock island near Potsdam
Drawings
Weathered Tree Trunks in a Park
David and Bathsheba
Path through an Oak Forest
Rural Landscape in the Mark Brandenburg
Old willows group at the Riverside
Forest road with wayside shrine
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Woman Bathing in the Park of Terni
Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen (29 July 1798, Cottbus - 23 July 1840, Berlin) was a German landscape painter and a Professor at the Academy of Arts, Berlin.[1] His distinctive style was characteristic of the Romantic ideals of natural beauty.
Life
Der gesprengte Turm des Heidelberger Schlosses (The Ruined Tower of Heidelberg Castle, c. 1830)
His father was a minor tax official from Regensburg. From 1805 to 1815 he attended the Lyceum at the Oberkirche St. Nikolai in Cottbus. His parents could not afford to pay for any further education, so they apprenticed him to a banker and he was engaged in that profession until 1822, when an increasing interest in art led him to the Berlin Academy.[1]
After a short study trip to Dresden and Saxon Switzerland, he returned to Berlin and obtained a position as a decorator for the Royal Theater on the Alexanderplatz. He married in 1824 and became a member of the Berlin Artists' Association in 1827. Later that year, he was dismissed from the Theater because of an ongoing dispute with singer Henriette Sontag. After that, he tried to support himself as a free-lance artist. In 1828, he took a study trip to the Baltic Sea, followed by a trip to Italy which produced hundreds of sketches that were later elaborated in his Berlin studio. He had been deeply impressed by the landscapes there and altered his entire manner of painting to reflect what he had seen.[1]
Final years and illness
In 1831, upon the recommendation of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, he was appointed Professor of Landscape Painting at the Berlin Academy. In 1835 he became a full member of the Academy and took a study trip to Paris. It was then that the first symptoms of his mental illness appeared.[1]
His condition deteriorated and he suffered severe bouts of depression that forced him to take a leave of absence from the Academy in 1836. The following year, he had to be admitted to a hospital. He was able to make one final trip to Dresden, where he made his last drawings. He died four years later, in a state of total mental derangement. He was buried in the Holy Trinity Cemetery (II), but the exact location is no longer known. He is commemorated with a plaque on the cemetery wall.
A street and an elementary school in Cottbus were named after him. In 2008, the school building became part of the "Blechen-Carré", a major shopping center.[2] Most of his works are in private collections. He was one of the first European painters to represent early industrialization as part of his landscapes.[3]
References
Paul Ortwin Rave (1955), "Blechen, Karl", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German) 2, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 295–295, (full text online)
Blechen-Carré website
Berger, Karl. Karl Blechen, Leipzig: E.A. Seemann Verlag, 1965. Hilger, Hans-Peter. "Anfänge der Industriemalerei in Deutschland" Der Anschnitt. Vol 12 S. 10-14, 1960. Vignau-Wilberg, Peter. "Das ‚Walzwerk in Eberswalde’ von Carl Blechen und die frühe Industriedarstellung,"in Carl Blechen (1798 - 1840): Grenzerfahrungen - Grenzüberschreitungen, Vogel, Gerd-Helge and Barbara Baumüller, eds.. Greifswald: Steinbecker Verlag, 2000.
Further reading
Robert Dohme (1875), "Blechen, Karl Eduard Ferdinand", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German) 2, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 700–701
Irma Emmrich, Carl Blechen, Verlag der Kunst, Dresden (1989)
Carl Blechen. Zwischen Romantik und Realismus, Exhibition Catalog from the Berliner Nationalgalerie, Prestel Verlag, Munich (1989)
Carl Blechen. Bilder aus Italien, Bezirksmuseum Cottbus, Schloss Branitz, Cottbus (1990)
Beate Schneider, Carl Blechen, Niederlausitzer Landesmuseum Cottbus, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig (1993)
Heino R. Möller, Carl Blechen, from Romantische Malerei und Ironie, Alfter (1995)
Barbara Baumüller, Gerd-Helge Vogel (eds.), Carl Blechen (1798-1840). Grenzerfahrungen - Grenzüberschreitungen, Greifswalder Romantikkonferenz, Steinbecker Verlag Rose, Greifswald (2000) ISBN 978-3-931483-24-1
Beate Schneider, Reinhard Wegner(eds.), Die neue Wirklichkeit der Bilder. Carl Blechen im Spannungsfeld der Forschung, Lukas, Berlin (2008) ISBN 978-3-86732-044-3
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