Ernst Koerner

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Ernst Koerner (c.1900)

View of Istanbul

Ernst Karl Eugen Koerner (3 November 1846, near Marienwerder - 30 July 1927, Berlin) was a German landscape painter.

Biography[]

His father, Ernst (1794-1856) was a cloth dealer. In 1861, while still attending the public schools, he began working in the studios of Hermann Eschke, where he received most of his artistic education. Later, he also worked for Karl Steffeck and  [de]. He spent most of the two following decades travelling; to the North Sea, the Baltics, the Harz Mountains, France, England, Italy, Scotland and Spain. From 1873 to 1886, he made numerous trips to Egypt and the Middle East, where he created some of his best known paintings.

In 1874, he married Auguste Heyl (1855-1899), the daughter of a factory manager. They had one daughter and three sons, including the jurist,  [de], who later became a prominent Anti-Semite.

In 1894, he was named a Professor and, from 1895 to 1899, was Chairman of the  [de] (Artists' Association). In addition to his canvases, he painted altarpieces at the  [de] in Berlin-Rummelsburg.

He died at home, aged eighty, and is buried at the  [de] in Berlin-Kreuzberg.^[1]

His most popular paintings depict Egyptian architecture, often backed by striking, red sunsets. Many of his works show the influence of Eduard Hildebrandt.

References[]

Further reading[]

• Alfred Rosenberg: "Ernst Koerner". In: Berliner Architekturwelt. 1, 1899, pgs.14–17, 23–24 (Online).
• Andreas Koerner: "Ernst Koerner (1846–1927). Ein Berliner Maler". In: Der Bär von Berlin. Vol.53 (2004), pp.75–94 ISSN 0522-0033.
• Wolfgang Kosack: Ernst Koerner, ein Berliner Orientmaler des 19. Jahrhunderts. Mit Werksverzeichnis und Themenliste seiner Gemälde. Verlag Christoph Brunner, Basel, ISBN 978-3-906206-19-6.

External links[]

Sunset in the Harz Mountains, circa 1865-1875.

• Florian Hufnagl (1980), "Koerner, Ernst", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), 12, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 379–380; (full text online)