Lot No. 232


Christel (Johannes Heinrich Christian) Eli


(Germany 1801-1881)
A meadow with primroses, wasp and butterflies, signed C. Eli, gouache on paper fixed on cardboard, 35,5 x 30,3 cm, unframed, slightly damaged, scratches and a small tear), (BH)

After his initial training with the Brunswick portrait and decorative painter, engraver and lithographer Johann Hilarius Krevel, Johannes Heinrich Christian Eli, called Christel Eli, joined the color painting department of the Fürstenberg porcelain manufactory in Brunswick in 1817. There he received his formation from Anton Carl Rammelsberg. He completed his apprenticeship in a very short time. After closing the color painting department of the porcelain manufacture in Brunswick in 1828 he dabbled in a “painters’ compagnie”. From 1830 onwards until his death he was an independent artist. In 1857 he was awarded the title “court flower, fruit and insect painter”. Watercolors, gouaches and oil paintings from his hand are kept in the Municipal Museum Brunswick, in the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich Museum and in the Museum in Fürstenberg palace.

Specialist: Mag. Barbara Hagerty Mag. Barbara Hagerty
+43-1-515 60-736

barbara.hagerty@dorotheum.at

28.03.2024 - 15:16

Estimate:
EUR 900.- to EUR 1,400.-
Starting bid:
EUR 600.-

Christel (Johannes Heinrich Christian) Eli


(Germany 1801-1881)
A meadow with primroses, wasp and butterflies, signed C. Eli, gouache on paper fixed on cardboard, 35,5 x 30,3 cm, unframed, slightly damaged, scratches and a small tear), (BH)

After his initial training with the Brunswick portrait and decorative painter, engraver and lithographer Johann Hilarius Krevel, Johannes Heinrich Christian Eli, called Christel Eli, joined the color painting department of the Fürstenberg porcelain manufactory in Brunswick in 1817. There he received his formation from Anton Carl Rammelsberg. He completed his apprenticeship in a very short time. After closing the color painting department of the porcelain manufacture in Brunswick in 1828 he dabbled in a “painters’ compagnie”. From 1830 onwards until his death he was an independent artist. In 1857 he was awarded the title “court flower, fruit and insect painter”. Watercolors, gouaches and oil paintings from his hand are kept in the Municipal Museum Brunswick, in the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich Museum and in the Museum in Fürstenberg palace.

Specialist: Mag. Barbara Hagerty Mag. Barbara Hagerty
+43-1-515 60-736

barbara.hagerty@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Watercolors
Auction type: Online auction
Date: 28.03.2024 - 15:16
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 21.03. - 28.03.2024