page_title: Jakob Götzenberger
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Jakob Götzenberger / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Jakob Götzenberger (1802-1866): Die Nixe des Wildsees. Fresko in der Trinkhalle in Baden-Baden von 1844.
context_page_description: Jakob Götzenberger was a German mural painter and portraitist, a pupil of Peter Cornelius. He spent much of the later part of his career in England.
context_section_description: Götzenberger was born in Heidelberg. He studied art in  Düsseldorf, where he became a pupil of Peter Cornelius, a member of the Nazarene Brotherhood which, largely inspired by the  artists of the early Italian Renaissance, had promoted the revival of fresco-painting in Germany.
  It was through Cornelius that Götzenberger came to carry out the greater part of a major commission for a set of four frescoes at the "Aula" (auditorium) of  the University of Bonn. The compositions, each representing one of the four faculties of the university, were, on Cornelius' instructions, based on those of Raphael's paintings in the Stanze in the Vatican. Work began in 1823; initially Götzenberger acted only as an assistant, Cornelius having delegated the main work to  Carl Heinrich Hermann. However, in early 1825, with only the first of the four murals, representing Theology, substantially underway, Cornelius left to take up a teaching post in Munich; most of his pupils, including Hermann,  went with him, and Götzenberger was left with the task of completing the work in Bonn. He spent some time in Italy, where he made the designs for the remaining subjects, before finally completing the murals in 1836. They had fallen into disrepair by the early 20th century, and were destroyed by bombing during the Second World War.
  Götzenberger was in London in early 1827, and on 2 February  was introduced to William Blake by Henry Crabb Robinson. He later said  "I saw in England many men of talents, but only three men of Genius, Coleridge, Flaxman and Blake, and of these Blake was the greatest."
  A major commission came from Ursula von Herding, for whom he painted a cycle of frescoes of the life of Christ in the chapel at the Dalberg-Herdingschen Castle in Nierstein, Hesse, newly built for her in 1839–42. He was appointed court painter and inspector of the gallery at Mannheim, and in 1844 decorated the loggia of the Trinkhalle (pump room) at Baden-Baden with 14 compositions illustrating legends of the Black Forest region.
caption: Water nymph of the Wildsee, fresco in the Trinkhall at Baden-Baden
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