Leibl Circle
The Leibl Circle is a group of artists who gathered around the painter Wilhelm Leibl between 1871 and 1873 and whose works show stylistic similarities to one another.
In this circle of friends there was no pronounced teacher-student relationship. However, it was shaped by a uniform conception of style, in which elements of Dutch painting of the 17th century and contemporary French painting were combined. Leibl was mainly influenced by the French realist Gustave Courbet .
Inspired by Courbet's influence, the circle had come to a "purely painting" technique. Leibl in particular developed a technique in which the brushwork completely neglected the specific materiality of the object to be represented and thus already pointed in the direction of abstraction, since it divided surfaces and forms into uniform units.
This group mainly created portraits, landscapes and still lifes .
members of the group
- Wilhelm Leibl (1844–1900), the "founder" of this artists' association
- Theodor Alt (1846–1937)
- Louis Eysen (1843-1899)
- Karl Haider (1846–1912)
- Rudolf Hirth du Frênes (1846–1916)
- Albert Lang (1847–1933)
- Victor Müller (1830–1871)
- Johann Ernst Sattler (1840–1923)
- Fritz Schider (1846–1907)
- Otto Scholderer (1834–1902)
- Carl Schuch (1846–1903)
- Johann Sperl (1840-1914)
- Hans Thoma (1839-1924)
- Wilhelm Trübner (1851-1917)
literature
- Michael Petzet (Ed.): Wilhelm Leibl and his circle . Prestel, Munich 1974.
- Eberhard Ruhmer: The Leibl circle and pure painting . Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 1984, ISBN 3-475-52455-4 .
- Klaus J. Schönmetzler (Ed.): Wilhelm Leibl and his painter friends . Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 2001, ISBN 3-475-52780-4 .
- Henrike Holsing, Marlene Lauter (ed.): Purely picturesque - Wilhelm Leibl and his circle . Imhof, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-996-2 .