Asmus Jacob Carstens
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Asmus Jacob Carstens (or "Jakob", May 10, 1754 – May 25, 1798) was a
Biography
He was born in Sanct Jürgen near Schleswig to a miller. He had a youthful passion for painting, but was apprenticed to a cooper (barrel-maker) for five years. After quitting his master in 1776, he went to Copenhagen, where he studied at the academy and supported himself for seven years by drawing portraits in red chalk, producing during the time a large historical picture, the "Death of Æschylus", and another painting, "Æolus and Ulysses".[citation needed] In 1783 he went to Italy where he was much impressed by the work of Giulio Romano.[2] His means did not permit him to go beyond Milan and Mantua, where he remained a month and then went to Lübeck, where he lived five years painting portraits.
He was then introduced by the poet Overbeck to a wealthy patron, by whose aid he went to Berlin, where his "Fall of the Angels", a colossal picture containing over 200 figures, gained him a professorship in the academy of fine arts. Two years' labour in Berlin and a travelling pension enabled him in 1792 to go to Rome, and study the works of Michelangelo and Raphael. At the end of this time he made a strongly worded attack on the Prussian academy and was dismissed; he was based in Rome for the brief remainder of his life, where he developed his final style.[3]
He gradually produced some fine subject and historical paintings, e.g. "Plato's Symposium" and the "Battle of Rossbach" which made him famous. He was appointed professor at
A biography was published in 1806 by his friend, the critic and archaeologist
Selected works
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Night and Her Children, Sleep and Death, 1794
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Fingal's Battle with the
Spirit of Loda, 1797 -
Ganymede, 1793
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Bacchus and Cupid, 1796
Notes
- ^ Novotny, 51-54, 52 quoted
- ^ a b public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Carstens, Armus Jacob". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 411. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Novotny, 51
References
- Fritz Novotny, Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1780–1880, 2nd edition. (reprinted 1980)
- Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). The American Cyclopædia. .
External links
- New International Encyclopedia. 1905. .