Alexander Michelis

Alexander Michelis (25 December 1823, in Münster – 23 January 1868, in Weimar) was a German landscape painter.

Alexander Michelis, portrait by Arnold Böcklin (1846)
Cows in a Forest Clearing

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 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.

References
  1. "Aus dem Malkasten zu Düsseldorf", by Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter. In : Die Gartenlaube, 1863, #37
  2. "Antonia Maria Ferdinanda". In: Jochen Schmidt-Liebich: Lexikon der Künstlerinnen 1700–1900. Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-598-11694-0

Further reading
  • Bund. (1885), "Michelis, Alexander", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 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, ISBN 978-3-8667-8381-2
  • Exhibition catalog: Die Weimarer Malerschule: Zum Gedächtnis der Gründung der Weimarer Kunstschule im Jahre 1860. Weimarer Kunstsammlungen, 1960

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