Albert Kindler

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Albert Kindler, photo by Arnold Overbeck , Gebr. G. & A. Overbeck in Düsseldorf

Albert Kindler (* 1833 in Allensbach ; † April 4, 1876 in Meran ) was a late Romantic German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Kindler began his artistic training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1856, however, he moved to Düsseldorf , where he continued his studies in the class of Carl Ferdinand Sohn at the Royal Prussian Art Academy , which was headed by Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow (1789–1862) .

He began his professional career in Rudolf Jordan's private studio , who was a student of his son. Like his son and Jordan, Kindler belongs to the Düsseldorf School of Painting, whose works were used by the bourgeoisie, who became wealthy with industrialization, to decorate their rooms. The new wealth also helped to compete with the home décor of the manors and castles of the nobility.

Taking into account the smaller rooms in bourgeois apartments, Kindler earned his early good reputation with Jordan with small-format but always dramatic and carefully crafted pictures. Apart from an interlude after a trip to Spain, they are always home-oriented and attuned to life in the village or the small town that still appears to be medieval. The Black Forest in Baden, Upper Bavaria and the Tyrolean Alps provided him with the background for the folk life he staged. His work, such as the painting The Little Poacher , sometimes conveys a harmless sense of humor.

Idyllic scenes between the sexes from an unprecedented world also keep popping up. Kindler was a genre painter who was a successful genre painter even during his lifetime, as he met the tastes of a wide audience very far with these attributes. He achieved his breakthrough with a picture from 1859, which was first called the wedding procession on the Rhine , and later after the wedding . Friedrich Oldermann (1802–1874) created a steel engraving based on a second version of the painting . L. Angerer took care of the printing and made sure that an idea of ​​Kindler's art got into the living rooms of the petty bourgeoisie. The success of the wedding picture helped Kindler to further market success, he repeated the motif in several versions.

Its success attracted imitators and plagiarists . Franz Richard Unterberger borrowed almost all of the staff and architecture from Kindler's wedding picture for his wedding in the harbor (1865). It is clear, however, that Unterberger's artistic room and color design is far from being achieved. From a coherent, dense and exciting staging of people with individual faces in a cleverly arranged landscape, Unterberger turns into an exploded collection of figures that destroys the perspective effect. Kindler's original found its temporary final place in the Brooklyn Museum in New York after an auction in Christie's New York branch in 1996 .

In 1863, Kinder lived in Düsseldorf at Kaiserstraße 51, and from 1865 he had his last place of residence at Goltsteinstraße 18. His wife, born Weyhe, stayed there after his death.

Kindler received the Small Gold Medal at the Berlin art exhibition in 1868 .

Picture gallery

  • After the wedding , oil on canvas

  • After the wedding , steel engraving by F. Oldermann, printed by L. Angerer

  • The little poacher , oil on canvas

  • The Spinner , lithograph

  • Presentation in a farmer's theater , Düsseldorf around 1870, oil on canvas

  • Caught unexpectedly

  • Pointed

  • The young couple

  • visit

Works (selection)

  • After the wedding (1859) - The approx. 106 × 145 cm picture, painted with oil on canvas, shows under a cloudy summer sky a view from Sankt Goar to the Loreley rock, oriented towards a vanishing point below the center of the picture . A group of people that emphasizes perspective is integrated into this with great skill . In warm colors, the painting captures the moment when a young, festively dressed couple with a wedding party, marveled at by children - coming from the church on the hillside - is preparing to climb the garland-circled boat to cross the Rhine . While the groom helps the bride, who is adorned with colorful ribbons, into the boat, the bride's father, in mayor pose , gives alms to the granddaughter of an old woman sitting in the foreground. On the way down from the church, the guests stand in intensely conversing groups. The occupants of a rowing boat, which has already cast off in the shadow of the bridal couple's boat, ensure happiness. They make music. A shot from a pistol raised in the air cracks. Behind it, the river and the steeply rising Loreley rocks are lost in the delicate mist.
  • The little poacher (hunting crime) , 44 × 59 cm, oil on canvas - an intimidated boy with a rabbit on a leash and his sad parents are confronted by the forester with the Prussian state power in the form of the village judge, his clerk and the bailiff.
  • Theater in the village
  • Visit to the Alm , 60.5 × 47.5 cm, oil on canvas
  • The letter readers , 51 × 63.5 cm, oil on canvas - a thoughtful mother and the daughter sitting with her at the table are shown in a comfortably furnished and rustic room. The daughter happily reads a letter to her mother. Apparently it comes from the father who went to war, who hangs in uniform in a picture next to a crucifix and a pendulum clock on the wall.
  • The courageous approach , 55 × 69 cm, oil on canvas - the interior view of a farmhouse shows an elegant traveler in a coat smoking cigarillo casually and teasingly pinches the cheek of a maid who is busy making butter. In the background sit the farmer and a man looking at something with a magnifying glass at the table. Dog and cat and all kinds of tools around. Food supplies hang from the ceiling.
  • A girl is reading to her grandfather
  • The bridal exam
  • Young peasant woman with child
  • The expectation
  • breakfast
  • The faithful guardian
  • The Spinner , 27.2 × 21 cm, lithograph
  • Municipal council meeting
  • Ascent to the dance
  • The abandoned woman on the dance floor , also as a steel engraving by JL Raab (1825–1899)
  • The fandango
  • Orange seller in Granada
  • The ambush

literature

  • Kindler, 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. 680-681 ( archive.org ).
  • Moritz Blanckarts :  Kindler, Albert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 768 f.
  • Kindler, Albert . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 2 : Gaab – Lezla . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 338 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Kurverwaltung Meran (Ed.): Citizens' dreams; Defregger, Koester, Wasmann. From the Siegfried Unterberger collection. Exhibition catalog. Trappeiner Verlag, Lana 2001.
  • Richard Welschinger: Albert Kindler (1833–1876). A famous painter from Allensbach. In: Allensbacher Almanach. 56th year 2006, pp. 27-32.

Web links

Commons : Albert Kindler  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurverwaltung Meran (ed.): Catalog for the exhibition: Citizens Dreams, Defregger, Koester, Wasmann, Lana. Trappeiner Verlag, 2001, p. 68 f.
  2. ^ Albert Kindler (German, 1833–1876): After the Wedding , website in the portal christies.com , accessed on February 18, 2016
  3. ^ Albert Kinder, Kaiserstr. 51 , address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, 1863
  4. ^ Albert Kindler, Goltsteinstrasse. 18 , address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, 1865
  5. ↑ Kindler Alb., Widow b. Weyhe, Goltsteinstrasse. 18 , address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, 1879
personal data
SURNAME Kindler, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Allensbach
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1876
Place of death Meran