Christian Leberecht Vogel (1759-1816)

Professions: Painter

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  CHRISTIAN LEBERECHT VOGEL 1759 Dresden- 1816

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  KPM PORCELAIN PLAQUE OF CHILDREN AFTER VOGEL

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  Christian Leberecht Vogel (Dresden 1759-1816)

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  A porcelain plaque of 'The artist's sons' after

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Christian Leberecht Vogel Biography

(b Dresden, 6 April 1759; d Dresden, 11 April 1816). Painter, draughtsman and art theoretician. He studied with Johann Eleazar Schenau (1737–1806) in Dresden and at the Dresden Akademie. From 1780 he worked for the Saxon nobility in the Muldenland, including (until 1804) Friedrich Magnus, Graf von Solms, at Schloss Wildenfels, near Zwickau. He not only painted portraits of his employers, but also taught their children drawing. His portraits of children were especially popular, eg. the Master’s Sons (1793; Coburg, Schloss). He exhibited in Dresden and in 1800 became a member of the Dresden Akademie, where he was appointed professor in 1814. Because his works have been largely in private ownership, his extensive oeuvre is not completely known. His portraits, transitional between Enlightenment Rococo and classicist Romanticism, have a somewhat sentimental, genre quality. Their emotive transfiguration of childhood is thoroughly bourgeois and anticipates the intimacy of Biedermeier art. The technical quality of his work is exceptionally high, being based on the traditions of the Dresden school.

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