Albert Zimmermann (painter)
August Albert Zimmermann (born September 20, 1809 in Zittau , † October 18, 1888 in Munich ) was a German painter .
Life
He was the oldest brother of Max , Robert and Richard Zimmermann , some of whom were also his students.
Zimmermann turned 21 years as an autodidact of landscape painting and went for training at the Academy of Dresden and 1831 München . There he founded a popular painting school for landscape painting. In 1857 he received a professorship at the Milan Art Academy , where he was followed by his favorite student Adalbert Waagen . In 1859 or 1860 Zimmermann went to Vienna , where he worked at the Academy of Fine Arts until 1872 . He then took up residence in Salzburg in 1880 and moved to Munich in 1884 or 1885, where he died in 1888.
reception
Zimmermann was an outstanding representative of heroic-historical landscape painting . He chose the motifs for his grandiose stylized landscapes with preference from mountain nature (often with biblical staffage), but also painted nature portraits with poetic lighting. His role models were Joseph Anton Koch and Bonaventura Genelli .
Works (selection)
Chapel on the Hintersee near Berchtesgaden (1888)
- Mountain landscape with waterfall ( Neue Pinakothek in Munich)
- Rock landscape with battle of centaurs with tigers (Neue Pinakothek in Munich)
- Faust and Mephistopheles at the High Court ( State Gallery Stuttgart )
- Obersee near Berchtesgaden (State Gallery Stuttgart)
- In the high Alps ( Städelsches Museum zu Frankfurt)
- Battle of the Centaurs with Lions ( Leipzig Museum )
- The drowned shepherd ( Austrian Belvedere Gallery in Vienna)
- Sunset ( Gallery of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts )
- Lake Lugano (Gallery of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts)
- The plowing of the field ( Dresden gallery )
- Dawn at the Great Venediger
- Alpenglow on Lake Piano in Lombardy
- Forest fire at the Hintersee
- The buried alp
- Waterfall in the Ramsau
- A landslide
- Stormy landscape from the Tauern
- Sunset in the high mountains
- Mountain lake with biblical staffage
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Zimmermann, Albert . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 60th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1891, pp. 111–114 ( digitized version ).
- Theodor Frimmel von Traisenau : Zimmermann, Albert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, pp. 248-251.
- Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus : Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , Volume 10. Verlag KG Saur, Munich 1999.
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Zimmermann, Albert |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zimmermann, August Albert (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1809 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zittau |
DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1888 |
Place of death | Munich |