Adolph Diedrich Kindermann

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Ship's carpenter Meyer and his wife , 1860
Glazier Achelius and his wife at breakfast , 1858

Adolph Diedrich Kindermann (also Dietrich , born April 23, 1823 in Lübeck , † September 16, 1892 in Hamburg ) was a painter and photographer .

Life

Adolph Kindermann was described as the best painter in Lübeck in the middle of the 19th century. He received his first training from Christian Peter Wilhelm Stolle . In 1843 he went to the Dresden Academy , among other things as a student of Julius Huebner and Eduard Bendemann . After participating in the Dresden May Uprising , he was expelled from the country in 1849. Until 1853 he lived as a portrait painter in Paris . From there he returned to Lübeck and went to Hamburg around 1856, where he worked as a painter and photographer until his death. Adolph Kindermann was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

One of his brothers was the photographer Conrad Kindermann , who from 1869 ran the atelier Benque & Kindermann in Hamburg, which had been successful for over 40 years .

A. Kindermann · Painter & Photographer

In 1856 Adolph Kindermann went to Hamburg to work as a portrait painter. Since this business did not have to have been very profitable, he opened a photographic studio in 1863 under the name A. Kindermann in Böckmannstrasse. In 1866 he moved his studio to the Gr. Theaterstrasse 7. For a while he had the reputation of being a very good photographer of children’s photos. From 1879 he no longer advertised as a photographer, but until his death in 1892 as a painter in Hamburg.

Charles Darwin acquired several photographs of Kindermann in 1871 and used two photos of crying children in The Expression of Emotional Movements in Man and Animals .

Adolph Kindermann mainly painted portraits. Few are known: in 1849 he portrayed Theodor Fontane and Wilhelm Wolfsohn in Dresden . In 1858 he painted the glazier Johann Jacob Achelius and his wife at breakfast. This double portrait is exhibited today (2009) in the Lübeck Behnhaus . In 1864 he painted Ernst Deecke posthumously . Some of his works are in the holdings of the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte . He was a member of a Hamburg Masonic Lodge .

literature

  • Adolph Diedrich Kindermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 317 .
  • Ernst Rump: Kindermann, A. In: Lexicon of the visual artists Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . O. Bröcker, Hamburg 1912, p. 69 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Der Neue Rump, p. 224
  • Wulf Schadendorf : Museum Behnhaus. The house and its rooms. Painting, sculpture, handicrafts (= Lübeck museum catalogs 3). 2nd expanded and changed edition. Museum for Art a. Cultural history d. Hanseatic City, Lübeck 1976, pp. 73/74.
  • Wulf Schadendorf: On painting . In: Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (ed.): Art and Culture of Lübeck in the 19th Century (Booklets on Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck), Booklet No. 4.
  • Gisela Jaacks : Faces and Personalities: Inventory catalog of the portrait collection in the Museum of Hamburg History. Museum of Hamburg History, Hamburg 1992, part 1, p. 135 f.
  • Philipp Prodger: Darwin, Charles Robert. In: John Hannavy (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Photography. Volume 1: A-I. CRC Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-97235-2 .
  • Hanna D. von Wolzüge, Itta Shedletzky (Eds.), Hanna D. von Wolhaben, Christine Hehle u. Ingolf Schwan: Theodor Fontane and Wilhelm Wolfsohn - an intercultural relationship. Letters, documents, reflections. Mohr (Siebeck), Tübingen 2006, (SchrLBI 71) ISBN 3-16-148720-6 .

Web links

Commons : Adolph Diedrich Kindermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ Wulf Schadendorf: On painting. P. 274.
  2. ↑ Hamburg address book from 1857 in the business directory "Kunstmaler".
  3. ↑ Hamburg address book from 1863 in the business directory “Photographie- u. Daguerreotype studios ”.
  4. ^ Darwin Correspondence Project ( Memento April 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Philipp Prodger: Darwin, Charles Robert. P. 384.
  6. ↑ Portrait pictures are i. d. R. Commissioned works. They therefore rarely come / came on the market, which is why a market for them seldom (has) developed. This explains the small number of those images that are publicly known.
  7. ↑ Hanna D. von Wolhaben, Itta Shedletzky (ed.): Theodor Fontane and Wilhelm Wolfsohn - an intercultural relationship. Letters, documents, reflections. P. 58.
personal data
SURNAME Kindermann, Adolph Diedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kindermann, Adolph Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1892
Place of death Hamburg