Adolf Mosengel

Adolf Mosengel, Dorf in den Berner Alpen (ca. 1885)

Adolf Mosengel (1 January 1837 – 12 June 1885) was a landscape painter from Hamburg, Germany. He had built a reputation painting Alpine scenes, and later turned to scenes from Westphalia.[1]

Biography

Mosengel was born in Hamburg. From 1854 to 1857, Mosengel studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Hans Fredrik Gude, and from 1858 to 1859 in Paris.[2] In 1861,[2] he studied in Geneva with Alexandre Calame,[1] before settling in Hamburg. In 1879 he traveled to the lakes of Northern Italy, where he painted en plein air.[2]

In the summer of 1870, Mosengel met Friedrich Nietzsche and his sister, who were spending the season in the Maderanertal, a valley at the northern foot of the Saint-Gotthard Massif which has been compared to the Mount Parnassus. Mosengel and the Nietzsches were staying in the Hotel Alpenclub. The Franco-Prussian War was about to break out, and Nietzsche had been considering joining the Prussian medical corps; apparently Mosengel "strengthened [his] resolve to do so".[3][4] Besides Leopold Rau, Mosengel is likely the only painter Nietzsche knew personally.[5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Notes on Art and Archaeology". The Academy. 27 June 1885. pp. 462–63.
  2. 1 2 3 Hans Christian Paffrath, ed. (1998). Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918 2. München: Bruckman. ISBN 3-7654-3010-2.
  3. ↑ Krell, David Farrell; Bates, Donald L. (1997). The Good European: Nietzsche's Work Sites in Word and Image. U of Chicago P. pp. 74–76. ISBN 9780226452784.
  4. ↑ Young, Julian (2010). Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography. Cambridge UP. p. 135. ISBN 9780521871174.
  5. ↑ Köhler, Joachim (2002). Zarathustra's Secret: The Interior Life of Friedrich Nietzsche. Yale UP. p. 117. ISBN 9780300092783.

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