Benedikt Beckenkamp
Johann (Kaspar) Benedikt Beckenkamp (1747–1828) was a German painter.
Life
Beckenkamp was born in 1747 in the valley of Ehrenbreitstein, near Koblenz. He studied under his father Lorenz Beckenkamp and Jan Zick, at Koblenz. At first he devoted himself to painting landscapes, after C. G. Schütz; but later changed to portraiture. He settled at Cologne, and successfully imitated the style of painting of the old German masters.[1]
Several portraits by Beckenkamp are in the Wallraf Museum, Cologne.[1] For the church of St Maria Lyskirchen in Cologne, he painted a copy of a triptych with a central panel of the Pietà by Joos van Cleve, the original of which (now in the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frakfurt) had been sold a few years before.[2]
He died in Cologne in 1828.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Bryan 1886-9.
- ↑ "Triptychon,". Romanischen Kirchen Köln. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
Sources
This article incorporates text from the article "BECKENCAMP, Caspar Benedict" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.
External links
- Biography at the History Portal of Landschaftverband Rheinland (in German language)
- Biography at the Portal of EPOCHE NAPOLEON (in German language)