传记

Kersting来自一个贫困的家庭Gustrow,Mecklenburg-Schwerin的儿子装玻璃的。他学习进步哥本哈根学院在1805年和1808年之间,他适应当代丹麦学校的视觉清晰度并在制图术被授予一枚银牌。1808年Kersting搬到德累斯顿,加入Lutzow自由队——这是自愿的普鲁士军队——1813年。他在1814年搬到波兰作为一个绘画大师,并返回麦森在1818年,他结婚了,生了四个孩子。那一年他成为首席艺术家在麦森粗俗低级的瓷器制造商并一直在那里工作,直到生命的结束。

艺术和同事

Kersting的一个朋友卡斯帕大卫弗里德利希领先的德国浪漫主义画家,他的风格影响了弗里德里希和他共享,艺术家的浪漫的态度,尽管以更主观的方式。的两个朋友去徒步旅行Riesengebirge在1810年。许多提高弗里德里希期间,两个画无数来自大自然的草图和观察。他可能已经粉刷了staffage其中包括早期弗里德里希的一些早上在Riesengebirge(1810 - 11),因此他们的徒步旅行。

他也是一位画家的朋友露易丝·赛德勒称他是“一个完全的和滑稽的家伙”而且经常担任他的模型。1813年塞德勒帮助Kersting发送一些他的作品歌德。歌德的印象,建议大公爵查尔斯奥古斯都绣花机购买他的作品。

Kersting最持久的作品是他的数据在内部,借用17世纪荷兰风俗画。这些画不过感觉当代由于情况描述和艺术家的人格的影响。人物往往从后面,弗里德里希的工作,和幕后提供线索的叙事人物私下参与日常活动。一些他的作品是指在志愿者队,“Lutzow流浪者”。他画了一个完整的1813年的自画像,他穿着游骑兵队的制服。这幅画值岗哨(1815)描述了三个流浪者,包括费迪南德哈特曼艺术家和作家西奥多·Korner,他与Kersting,在与法国的战争中死亡。

Biography

Kersting came from a large and impoverished family in Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the son of a glazier. He studied at the progressive Copenhagen Academy between 1805 and 1808, where he adapted the visual clarity of the contemporary Danish schoo  and was awarded a silver medal in draughtsmanship. Kersting moved to Dresden in 1808, joining the Lützow Free Corps—a voluntary force of the Prussian Army—in 1813. He moved to Poland in 1814 to work as a drawing master, and returned to Meissenin 1818, where he married and had four children. That year he became the chief artist at a Biedermeier porcelain manufacturer in Meissen and remained there until life's end.

Art and associates

Kersting was a friend of Caspar David Friedrich, the leadingGerman Romantic painter; his style was influenced by Friedrich, and he shared that artist's romantic attitude, although in a more subjective manner. The two friends went on a walking tour of the Riesengebirge in 1810. During his many hikes with Friedrich, the two painted numerous sketches and observations from nature. He may have painted the staffage in some of Friedrich's early work—such as Morning in the Riesengebirge(1810–11), a result of their walking tour.

He was also a friend of the painter Louise Seidler, who described him as "an altogether splendid and comical fellow"and often served as his model. In 1813 Seidler helped Kersting send a number of his works to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Goethe was impressed and recommended that the Grand Duke Charles Augustus purchase his work The Embroiderer.

Kersting's most lasting works are his figures in interiors that borrow from seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting. These paintings nevertheless feel contemporary due to the situations depicted and the effect of the artist's personality. The characters are often viewed from the back, as in Friedrich's work, and the scenes provide hints of narrative as the figures engage privately in everyday activities. A number of his works refer to his time in the volunteer corps, the "Lützow rangers". He drew a full-length self-portrait in 1813, in which he wore the rangers' uniform. The painting On Sentry Duty(1815) depicts three rangers, including the artist Ferdinand Hartmann and the writer Theodor Körner, who fought with Kersting and died in wars against the French.