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(2) (Giovanni) Bonaventura Genelli
(b Berlin, 26 Sept 1798; d Weimar, 13 Nov 1868). Draughtsman and painter, nephew of (1) Hans Christian Genelli. He was educated by his uncle, imbibing in particular the influence of Asmus Carstens, who had been a great family friend. He also studied with the painter Friedrich Bury, and in 1814–19 he attended the Berlin Kunstakademie, studying with Johann Erdmann Hummel. Having completed military service, and receiving a grant for study in Italy, Genelli was able to travel in 1822 to Rome, where he joined the circle of German artists around Joseph Anton Koch, supplying the staffage to some of Koch’s works. In Rome he drew inspiration from both antiquity and the High Renaissance, and in his drawings, often with watercolour additions, he derived his subject-matter mostly from Classical poetry and mythology.
Part of the Genelli family
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