Étienne Kolbe

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Étienne Maria and Christine Louise Kolbe , double portrait of the siblings by their father, Heinrich Christoph Kolbe , around 1820, Von der Heydt-Museum

Étienne Maria Kolbe , also Maria Stephan Kolbe (born January 1, 1809 in Paris , † October 21, 1834 in Elberfeld , today Wuppertal ), was a German portrait painter .

Life

Kolbe, the only son of the portrait painter Heinrich Christoph Kolbe and his French wife Marie Thérèse, born Planchon, came in 1811 as an infant with his parents and his sister Christine Louise (1807-1855) from Paris to Dusseldorf , where the family a house in Carlstadt related . He was probably given his first painting lessons as a boy from his father, who was a well-known portrait painter in the Rhineland. After completing school, he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1829 to 1831 , where he attended the 2nd painting class under his father and developed into a portrait painter. In the years 1831/1832 he served as a one-year volunteer in the Prussian military, from which he was released as an ensign in the reserve . Since Kolbe died on October 21, 1834 in Elberfeld of a "nervous fever", probably typhus , his oeuvre is small. It is believed that Kolbe last carried out portrait commissions instead of his sick father. In 1832 he created the portrait of Frau Schreiner , now the Museum Kunstpalast , and around 1833 a portrait of his father. Kolbe continued his classicist Davidian approach to portraits while at the same time refining the technique.

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  1. ↑ Thea Vignau-Wilberg: Late Classicism and Romanticism. Complete catalog . Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Painting Catalogs, Volume IV, Hirmer, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7774-8520-9 , p. 287
  2. ^ Walter Cohen : Rhenish painting in the Biedermeier period . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1926, p. 35
  3. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 434
  4. ↑ Cf. Nos. 7716–7718 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
  5. ^ North Rhine-Westphalian civil status archive Rhineland, Brühl, registry office Wuppertal-Elberfeld, death certificate no. 1087 of October 21, 1834; Obituary in the Elberfelder Zeitung of October 22, 1834
  6. ^ Horst Heidermann : Heinrich Christoph Kolbe and the portrait painters of the Wuppertal bourgeoisie . Article in the magazine Geschichte im Wuppertal , vol. 18, p. 32, published in the portal bgv-wuppertal.de ( PDF file ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and still not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; 418 kB), accessed on August 18, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bgv-wuppertal.de
  7. ↑ Martina Sitt: A picture also needs a lawyer. Walter Cohen - Life Between Art and Law . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1994, p. 92
  8. ↑ Kolbe, Etienne Maria . In: Wolfgang Hütt : The Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1869 . VEB EA Seemann Buch- und Kunstverlag, Leipzig 1984, p. 286
personal data
SURNAME Kolbe, Etienne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolbe, Étienne Maria (full name); Kolbe, Maria Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1834
Place of death Elberfeld , today Wuppertal