Alexander Michelis (25 December 1823, in Münster – 23 January 1868, in Weimar) was a German landscape painter.
German landscape painter
Alexander Michelis by G. & A. Overbeck (firm), c. 1868
Biography
His father, Franz Michelis (1762–1835), was a draftsman and engraver. From 1843 to 1851, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under the tutelage of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. While there, he became a member of the Malkasten painters' association and succeeded Hermann Heinrich Becker as its Secretary[1]
He spent ten years in Düsseldorf as a free-lance artist, but also gave private art lessons; notably to Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Infanta Antónia of Portugal.[2] In 1863, he was appointed a Professor at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar, where he took the position originally held by Arnold Böcklin. He remained there until his death.
His older brother, Friedrich, was a well-known philosopher and theologian.
"Antonia Maria Ferdinanda". In: Jochen Schmidt-Liebich: Lexikon der Künstlerinnen 1700–1900. Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN978-3-598-11694-0
Further reading
Cows in a Forest Clearing
Bund. (1885), "Michelis, Alexander", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), vol.21, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p.693
Exhibition catalog: Hinaus in die Natur!: Barbizon, die Weimarer Malerschule und der Aufbruch zum Impressionismus, Gerda Wendermann (ed.) Verlag Kerber Art, 2010,ISBN978-3-8667-8381-2
Exhibition catalog: Die Weimarer Malerschule: Zum Gedächtnis der Gründung der Weimarer Kunstschule im Jahre 1860. Weimarer Kunstsammlungen, 1960
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