Christian Leberecht Vogel

Christian Leberecht Vogel studied at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Training under Johann Eleazar Zeissig is recorded. Louise Seidler is recorded as having studied under Christian Leberecht Vogel. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is visual arts, graphics and art theory. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Dresden, Wildenfels and Lichtenstein. Employment is recorded with Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Positions recorded include court painter. Work by Christian Leberecht Vogel is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design and Führermuseum.

Vogel was born and died in Dresden. A family history, written circa 1914 by his grandson, Victor Vogel, says: Christian Leberecht Vogel [was] born in 1750. He became a painter of some renown, was Professor at the Academy of fine Arts at Dresden Saxony Germany. Moved to Waldenfels, a few miles from Lichtenstein. His first great painting was the Alter Painting at the Church of Lichtenstein, 'Suffer the little children to come to unto me and hinder them not for such is the kingdom of God'. Which is still intact today [in 1914]. Thirty years later he repeated the same painting for the Duke of Schoenberg at his Castle in Wildenfels. He lived at Wildenfels from 1780 till 1804. He died in 1816 at the age of sixty-six.

"Amor and Psyche" • Illustration — The Artist's Sons (circa 1793) • Ganymed • Boy with Birdcage • Boy with Canary bird, which is at the Royal Picture Gallery at Dresden. • The Artist's Sons • A group of Hessian soldiers in 1776 when he was 26, going to help the British fight the Americans. At the time this was a prize possession of the author Victor Vogel circa 1914. • Ideen über die Schönheitslehre in Hinsicht auf sichtbare Gegenstände überhaupt und auf bildende Kunst insbesondere., Dresden 1812 • Reflexionen über die Form und örtlichen Verhältnisse der Helligkeit und Dunkelheit der umgebenden Materie der Kometen..., Dresden 1812 • Ideen zur Farbenlehre (handschriftlicher Entwurf), abgedruckt in: Hermann Vogel von Vogelstein, Die Farbenlehre des Christian Leberecht Vogel, Dissertation Greifswald 1998

Christian Leberecht Vogel is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation graphic artist. Classed in the genre portrait. Recorded as art historian, painter, university teacher, graphic artist and art theorist.