Albert Kappis

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Albert Kappis, painting by Friedrich Eckenfelder (1890)
Tomb in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart

Albert Kappis (born August 20, 1836 in Wildberg , † September 18, 1914 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter and lithographer .

Life

Kappis received training as a lithographer in the workshop of his uncle Adam Gatternicht from 1850 to around 1857 . He also had lessons from the drawing teacher Carl Kurtz. From 1855 to 1860 he studied at the Royal Art School in Stuttgart under Heinrich von Rustige ( genre and history painting ) , Heinrich Funk ( landscape painting ) and Bernhard von Neher ( nude painting ).

In 1860 he began studying at the Munich Royal Academy of Fine Arts with the history painter Karl von Piloty . He became friends with Adolf Lier and Eduard Schleich the Elder. Ä. , with Anton Braith , Joseph Wopfner (1843–1927) and Ludwig Willroider . He made the acquaintance of other Swabian painters, including Friedrich Salzer , Jakob Grünenwald and Carl Ebert.

In 1867 he went on a study trip to Paris. There he was in contact with the members of the Barbizon School . He made the return trip via Belgium and the Moselle valley to Düsseldorf, where he visited Theodor Schüz , who was known from Munich . From 1871 to 1874 Kappis moved to the so-called Schwabenburg, the residence of Anton Braith and Christian Mali .

In 1874 he went on his honeymoon via South Tyrol and Northern Italy to Venice. After that he mainly painted motifs from the Munich area, especially on the Starnberger and Chiemsee lakes. In 1880, as the successor to Karl Ludwig, he received the professorship for landscape painting at the Royal Art School in Stuttgart, where he became a teacher of the "Swabian Impressionists ". This was followed by trips to Bavaria, the Black Forest, Lake Constance, Hamburg and the Baltic Sea.

In 1905 he retired. Kappis mainly painted landscapes, genre motifs from folk life such as the grape harvest, harvest scenes and sheep shearing.

Kappis found his final resting place in the Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart.

literature

  • Professor Albert Kappis born in Wildberg on August 20, 1836, died in Stuttgart 1914 (No. 203-525) . In: Hugo Helbing (ed.): Modern oil paintings: bequests of Professor Louis Braun †, Munich, Professor Albert Kappis †, Stuttgart; Auction in Munich at Galerie Helbing, June 14th and 15th, 1917 . Munich 1917, p. 11–23 , and illustrations from panel VIII ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de - overview of works).
  • Kappis, Albert. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, pp. 644-645 ( archive.org ).
  • Kappis, Albert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926, p. 546 .
  • Max Schefold: Albert Kappis, painter, 1836–1914. In: Life pictures from Swabia and Franconia. 7, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1960, pp. 347-351.
  • Hans-Peter Bühler, Albert Kappis: Albert Kappis 1836–1914. Publication for the 70th anniversary. Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart 1975.
  • Munich painters in the 19th century in four volumes. Volume 2: Gebhardt – Küstner. Bruckmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7654-1802-1 .
  • Andreas Bühler, Gabriele Zimmermann, Isabel Grüner: Albert Kappis: Trailblazers of Impressionism in Swabia (catalog for the exhibition Kunsthaus Bühler, January 30 - March 20, 1999 and Hohenkarpfen Art Foundation, March 28 - July 4, 1999). Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-930569-19-1 .
  • Andreas Bühler: Albert Kappis, from the Munich School to Swabian Impressionism. In: Die Weltkunst. 70/6, Munich 2000, pp. 1079-1081.
  • Exhibition cat .: Temporary idyll. Painting holidays at Untersee 1880 to 1914. Constance 2009 ( Städt. Wessenberg-Galerie ).
  • Andreas Bühler, Gabriele and Kurt Zimmermann: Albert Kappis (1836–1914), catalog raisonné of the paintings. Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart 2014.

Web links

Commons : Albert Kappis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer : Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1988 (= improved reprint from: Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: a self-portrayal. ) O. S. [5].
personal data
SURNAME Kappis, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Wildberg (Black Forest)
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1914
Place of death Stuttgart