Albert Emil Kirchner

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Castle and town of Aulendorf , painting by Albert Emil Kirchner, around 1860

Albert Emil Kirchner (born May 12, 1813 in Leipzig , † June 4, 1885 in Munich ) was a German painter .

Life

Kirchner was the son of a master carpenter. He first attended the St. Thomas Latin School in Leipzig and, at the age of 13, the construction school directed by Albert Geutebrück (1801–1868). Two years later he was a student of Friedrich Brauers at the Leipzig Academy. He then attended the art academy in Dresden, where the later architecture and landscape painter became a student of Johan Christian Clausen Dahl and Caspar David Friedrich . After a long stay in Munich, he returned to Saxony in 1832 to make drawings for Ludwig Puttrich's (1783–1856) collective work "Monuments of the Architecture of the Middle Ages" . In 1834 he finally moved to Munich with his wife, whom he married in 1836. There he devoted himself not only to drawings but also to painting. He became a member of the Munich Academy and the state honored him by awarding him the large pension.

Ostbahn series

View of the Passau Inn Bridge from the Ostbahn series

Between 1859 and 1862 Kirchner painted a series of watercolors for the Bavarian Eastern Railway, depicting locations on the Bavarian Eastern Railway, and dedicated them to their director Paul Camille von Denis . The pictures are now held by the DB Museum and as an important source for the history of trains frequently reported in the literature.

literature

Web links

Commons : Albert Emil Kirchner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of Fine Arts, Volume 20
  2. ↑ Bräunlein, page 46ff
personal data
SURNAME Kirchner, Albert Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirchner, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1885
Place of death Munich