Franz Gustav Arndt

Franz Gustav Arndt (20 August 1842, Lobsens - 13 March 1905, Blasewitz) was a German landscape and genre painter.

Venice by Moonlight
Italian Temple Complex

Biography

His father, Gustav Wilhelm Arndt was the District Judge. His brother, Wilhelm Arndt, became a noted historian and palaeographer.

He studied at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar, under Alexander Michelis and Theodor Hagen. In 1876, he became a Professor of landscape painting there and, from 1879 to 1881, he served as Secretary of the Art School. He was also a member of the Weimar "Society for Etchings".

From 1872 to 1877, he made several study trips to Italy. In 1884, he quit his positions at the school and moved to Berlin.[1] Three years later, he moved again, to Blasewitz, near Dresden.[2]

There is a painting by Arndt in the Liszt-Haus Weimar which may depict Liszt at the Sphinxgrotte in the Park an der Ilm, which was one of Liszt's favorite places in Weimar. But it means a scene of Liszt's Consolations. He is also known for "The Four Seasons", created in conjunction with Hieronymus Christian Krohn, in the dining room of the noted art collector, Eduard Friedrich Weber, completed in 1877.[3]

References
  1. "Issue 1885 - Digitale Landesbibliothek Berlin - Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin". digital.zlb.de. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  2. Arndt, Frz. Gstv., Maler, Prof., Residenzstr. 4. In: Adressbuch für Dresden und seine Vororte, 1905
  3. K. W. (1877-07-19). "Korrespondenz – Hamburg, im Juni 1877". Kunstchronik, XII. Jahrgang (1877), Nr. 41, Spalte 653–655. Retrieved 2016-03-14.

Further reading
  • "Arndt, Franz Gustav". In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts. Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte. Vol.1/1, Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891 Online
  • "Arndt, Franz Gustav". In: Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer: Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon. Vol.1, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt/M. 1921 (Online).
  • Walther Scheidig: Die Geschichte der Weimarer Malerschule 1860–1900. Seemann, Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-363-00538-5.

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