Alfred Zimmermann (painter)
Alfred Zimmermann (born May 16, 1854 in Munich ; † May 21, 1910 drowned in Gstadt am Chiemsee ) was a German painter.
life and work
Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann's younger son was supposed to work in the banking business according to his father's will, but at his insistence, because he had proven to be extraordinarily talented, he took him to the Royal Art Academy in Munich, where he was a student of Alexander Strähuber , Xaver Barth and Wilhelm Lindenschmitt was.
A trip to Paris in 1874 did not bring him closer to modern French painting, but it did bring Rembrandt . After his return he painted genre scenes in the style of the old masters. He had a second passion, opera singing, so that he paused as a painter and only returned to the canvas after years of successful singing. As a result he devoted himself to outdoor painting . A long stay on Capri brought out brilliantly painted pictures. Back in Munich he also made a name for himself as an illustrator for the magazine Jugend .
His friends included the painters Wilhelm Leibl and Wilhelm Trübner . He often spent the summer at Chiemsee, where he acquired a stately property in Gstadt am Chiemsee. Here he still created many landscapes and later also figurative pictures. He drowned on a boat trip on the Chiemsee .
literature
- Zimmermann, Alfred . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 505 .
- Erika Bosl: Zimmermann, Alfred. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 876 ( digitized version ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zimmermann, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 1910 |
| Place of death | Gstadt am Chiemsee |