August from Kreling

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Portrait of August von Kreling
Postcard to Goethe, Faust I
Genius of Water for the Tyler Davidson Fountain in Cincinnati , Ohio

August von Kreling (born May 23, 1819 in Osnabrück , † April 22, 1876 in Nuremberg ) was a German painter and sculptor .

Life

Kreling was the son of master baker Johann Friedrich Kreling and his wife Marie Margarethe Biermann. After attending the Ratsgymnasium Osnabrück, Kreling learned to be a baker in his father's business. At the age of 16 he moved to the polytechnic university in Hanover in 1835 and became a student of the sculptor Ernst von Bandel .

On his recommendation, Kreling moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich the following year , where he became a student of Peter von Cornelius and Ludwig Michael von Schwanthaler . During these years Kreling gave up sculpture almost entirely in favor of painting. Kreling made his artistic debut with nine ceiling paintings that he created for the Hoftheater in Hanover.

Kreling spent the years 1847 to 1848 on a study trip to northern Italy; mostly in Venice , where he copied the works of Veronese .

In 1853, at the request of the Bavarian King Maximilian II , Kreling was entrusted with the management of the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts . As such, he restructured this school and through this modernization this educational institution became the model for all similar schools throughout Germany.

Kreling held the office of director until 1874. One of his most important works from the early years in Nuremberg is The Coronation of Ludwig of Bavaria , which Kreling created for the Maximilianeum . When he was offered the position of director of the art academy in Berlin , he turned it down because the budget was too low.

In 1850, Kreling designed a female fountain figure for the businessman and later mayor of Cincinnati (Ohio), Henry Probasco , which represented the "genius of water". The mediation between customer and artist took place via the Königsigl. bayer. Ore foundry inspector Ferdinand von Miller , who then also cast this sculpture in bronze. With this figure, Probasco crowned a fountain in Cincinnati that he had built in memory of his brother-in-law Tyler Davidson .

In 1854 he married Johanna, a daughter of the painter Wilhelm von Kaulbach, in Munich . With her he had three daughters and two sons, including the later painter Wilhelm Kreling . In the same year, the imperial castle in Nuremberg was restored under Kreling's leadership . For this, Kreling designed much of the missing furniture in the taste of the time.

In 1858, the Princes of Liechtenstein hired Kreling as an architect for the renovation of their castle in Eisgrub (Bohemia), who not only redesigned the buildings, but also some of the gardens. Around 1858 he made the cardboard boxes for the glass paintings in the Marktkirche in Hanover. In 1859 Kreling secretly accepted an order to design the so-called Donner Castle in Altona, which the merchant Bernhard Donner had given his father-in-law Wilhelm von Kaulbach. In 1861 Kreling was responsible for the entire decoration of the Nuremberg Singing Festival.

For the city of Weil der Stadt , Kreling created the monument for Johannes Kepler in 1870 , which was then cast by the Nuremberg company Lenz & Herold . In the same year Kreling was awarded the title of Dr. phil. hc honored. Kreling's design for a statue of Prince Heinrich Posthumus Reuss in Gera was also realized at this foundry .

In 1873 King Ludwig II raised Kreling to the nobility by awarding him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and was awarded the Maximilian Order for Science and Art. About a year later August von Kreling died at the age of almost 57 on April 22, 1876 in Nuremberg.

He was a man of rich artistic talent, versatile education, rich in experience, practical view and extraordinary energy. In his pictures he remained true to the coloristic direction, and in his sculptural works there is consistently a decided inclination for the painterly element. Kreling was a member of the Morning Society's patronage circle .

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SURNAME Kreling, August of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1876
Place of death Nuremberg