The New International Encyclopædia/Hasenpflug, Karl

HASENPFLUG, hä'zen-pflōōG, Karl (1802-58). A German architectural painter, born in Berlin, the son of a shoemaker. After a hard struggle in early life, he became the pupil of the decorative painter Karl Gropius, and a few years later was enabled by a royal stipend to study at the academy, but really owed his development mostly to his own efforts. Attracted by the mediæval architecture of Halberstadt, he made his home there in 1830, and, besides cathedrals, painted chiefly views of ruined castles and convents half buried in snow, which appealed to a large public by their great poetic charm. Especially noteworthy among his works are two views of Cologne Cathedral (1832-33); Erfurt Cathedral (1827); and three views of and in Halberstadt Cathedral (1828-36, the last four in National Gallery, Berlin); “Cloister in Winter” (1840, Kunsthalle, Hamburg); “Mediæval Castle Yard” (1842, Schwerin Gallery); and “Ruined Chapel” (Stettin Museum).