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Asmus Jacob Carstens (or "Jakob", May 10, 1754 – May 25, 1798) was a Danish-German painter, one of the most committed artists of German Neoclassicism. His career was erratic, partly because of his difficult personality, and the majority of his large projects were left incomplete, or subsequently destroyed. Much of what survives is in the form of drawings, many using "a schematic, pale colouring as a timid and humble accessory to the dominating figure-drawing", that were planned for large fresco commissions that never materialized.[1]

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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 Berlin, and in 1795 a great exhibition of his works was held in Rome in the studio of Pompeo Batoni; he died in Rome in 1798.[2] He mostly designed in pencil or chalk and watercolour and painted paintings in fresco; he rarely painted in oil.

A biography was published in 1806 by his friend, the critic and archaeologist Karl Ludwig Fernow, who was later the royal librarian at Weimar, which has the best collection of his graphic work. Bertel Thorvaldsen and Joseph Anton Koch both studied and worked with him in Rome, and copied many of his works; Koch made etchings of several, which were published in Rome in 1799. The Thorvaldsens Museum has several works by all three artists based on Carstens' designs.

Selected works

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  Sorrowful Ajax with Tecmessa and Eurysaces, 1791
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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
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  Ganymede, 1793
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  Bacchus and Cupid, 1796

Notes

References

• Fritz Novotny, Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1780-1880, 2nd edition. (reprinted 1980)
• Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Carstens, Asmus Jakob" . The American Cyclopædia.

External links

• "Carstens, Asmus Jakob" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.

На других языках

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[de] Asmus Carstens

Asmus Jacob Carstens (* 10. Mai 1754 in Skt. Jørgen (nun St. Jürgen bei Schleswig); † 25. Mai 1798 in Rom) war ein Maler des deutschen Klassizismus.

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- [en] Asmus Jacob Carstens

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[es] Asmus Jacob Carstens

Asmus Jacob Carstens (Schleswig, 10 de mayo de 1754 - Roma, 25 de mayo de 1798) fue un pintor germano-danés nacido en Schleswig, y en 1776 marchó a Copenhague a estudiar. En 1783 se fue a Italia, donde quedó muy impresionado por la obra de Giulio Romano. Luego se estableció en Lübeck como retratista, pero le ayudaron a visitar Roma de nuevo en 1792, y gradualmente produjo algunas de sus mejores pinturas históricas, como El banquete de Platón y La batalla de Rossbach, que le hicieron famoso. Fue nombrado profesor en Berlín, y en 1795 se celebró una gran exposición de sus obras en Roma, donde murió en 1798. Carstens figura entre los fundadores de la escuela tardía de la pintura de historia alemana.

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[fr] Asmus Jacob Carstens

Asmus Jacob Carstens (1754 à Schleswig - 1798 à Rome) est un peintre allemand.

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[it] Asmus Jacob Carstens

Asmus Jacob Carstens (Sankt Jürgen, 10 maggio 1754 – Roma, 25 maggio 1798) è stato un pittore, critico d'arte e disegnatore tedesco-danese di stile neoclassico.

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[ru] Карстенс, Асмус Якоб

А́смус Я́коб Ка́рстенс (нем. Asmus Jacob Carstens; 10 мая 1754 (1754-05-10), город Санкт-Юрген, Шлезвиг — 25 мая 1798, Рим) — датский и немецкий художник, представитель классицизма.

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