Moritz von Beckerath
Illustration — Moritz von Beckerath and his sister Hedwig in the painting Summer Night on the Rhine by Christian Eduard Böttcher • Illustration — Moritz von Beckerath: Apotheose Bismarcks Moritz von Beckerath (2 May 1838 in Krefeld – 17 September 1896 in Munich) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf school of painting.
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Moritz von Beckerath
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- Born
- 1838 · Krefeld.
- Died
- 1896 · Munich.
- Nationality
- German Reich
- Occupation
- painter
- Movements
- Düsseldorf school of painting
- Education
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf · Academy of Fine Arts and Munich
- Teachers
- Joseph Kehren · Moritz von Schwind · Emanuel Leutze · Eduard Bendemann
- Languages
- German
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Krefeld.
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Moritz von Beckerath studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Training under Joseph Kehren, Moritz von Schwind and Emanuel Leutze is recorded. The recorded working language is German. The authority associates the name with Düsseldorf school of painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Düsseldorf, Munich and Rome. Work by Moritz von Beckerath is recorded in the collections of Bavarian State Painting Collections.
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According to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the recorded places of activity of Moritz von Beckerath are Düsseldorf, Munich, Rome and Pécs.
• Wittekind calls the Saxons to fight (1873), Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum • Alarich's burial in the Busento (around 1870), Munich, Schack-Galerie • Sleeping reveler (art trade)
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Moritz von Beckerath, a fresco painter, muralist, watercolourist, draughtsman, illustrator, history painter and “Freskant”, was born on 2 May 1838 in Krefeld and died on 17 September 1896.
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Illustrations
• In: Gustav Wendt: Ballad wreath: collected from German poets. Grote, Berlin 1866 (urn: nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-1665 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf). • In: Düsseldorf picture portfolio: original drawings. Grote, Berlin 1866 (urn: nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-1138 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf). • Oh, if only it gave me the creeps and King Thrushbeard. In: German picture sheets for young and old. Gustav Weise, Stuttgart, around 1873. • From one who set out to learn to fear. In: Münchener Bilderbogen. Braun & Schneider, Munich (year unknown).
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Moritz von Beckerath died in Munich, according to the Getty Union List of Artist Names and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The Getty Union List of Artist Names records the fuller form Munich, Kreisfreie Stadt München. The birth is recorded by the Getty Union List of Artist Names and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Literature
• Julius Meyer, Hermann Lücke, Hugo von Tschudi (Hrsg.): General artist lexicon. Volume 3, Leipzig 1885, p. 272. • Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. I-1, Dresden 1891, I-2, 1895. • Hyacinth Holland: Beckerath, Moriz von. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, p. 327 f. • Hermann Board: Beckerath, Moritz von. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present. Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Tape 3: Bassano-Bickham. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 152 (Textarchiv - Internet Archive). • Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists. prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main, Volume 1, Volume 5 (supplements) 1921. • Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume 1, 1976. • Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 1, 1981. • Beckerath, Moritz von. In: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich and others. 1993,. • Wolfgang Hütt: The Düsseldorf School of Painting. 1819–1869. VEB EA Seemann Buch- und Kunstverlag, Leipzig 1984, pp. 240, 276. • Barbara Lülf, In: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Galerie Paffrath. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, (fig.).
Moritz von Beckerath - Alarichs Bestattung im Flussbett des Busento - 11628 - Bavarian State Painting Collections
Moritz von Beckerath
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- 1.Friedrich Noack: Das Deutschtum in Rom seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, S. 79
- 2.Düsseldorfer Zeitung. Nr. 29, 29. Januar 1865.
- 3.Düsseldorfer Zeitung. Nr. 137, 20. Mai 1866.
- 4.Düsseldorfer Zeitung. Nr. 27, 27. Januar 1867.
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