Bruno Piglhein

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Portrait of Bruno Piglhein
Piglhein with the client, Joseph Halder , at work on the Panorama 1886

Elimar Ulrich Bruno Piglhein (born February 19, 1848 in Hamburg ; † July 15, 1894 in Munich ) was a German sculptor, then a painter of the Munich School (fine arts) , founding member and 1st President of the Munich Secession . Member of Die Elf , Munich's association of visual artists.

Life

The Atelier of Piglhein after a photograph from 1884

Bruno Piglhein was a son of Ludovicus Piglhein . He had an older brother named Johann Christian Ludovicus, called Ludwig (* 1842). After his school days, including at the trade school of the Patriotische Gesellschaft , where he was instructed in drawing by Günther Gensler and modeling by Ernst Gottfried Vivié , Piglhein began training with the sculptor Julius Lippelt and switched after his untimely death (1864) while still his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden , which he would have had to leave after two years due to an alleged lack of talent if Johannes Schilling had not recognized him better and taken him into his studio, where, in addition to various sculptural designs, he made a fountain sculpture. After a short stay in Italy he switched to painting and, on the recommendation of Schilling, attended Ferdinand Pauwels at the art school in Weimar , where he stayed for six months. In 1871, at the age of 22, Piglhein moved to Wilhelm von Diez's studio in Munich. Piglhein stayed in this town for the rest of his life.

Piglhein: Fountain sculpture by Piglhein in Wohltorf , Sachsenwald near Hamburg

From 1885 to 1886 Piglhein went on extensive study trips to Paris and Jerusalem . It was there that he made his studies for his later magnum opus , "The Crucifixion of Christ". In the same year of his return to Munich, Piglhein was promoted to professor. As such, he was instrumental in founding the Secession in 1892 and then also its first president.

During this time Piglhein turned to the decorative style of Hans Makart , with which he designed some stately town houses and patrician villas in Hamburg. He painted some mythological representations in the manner of Böcklin (Centaur pictures), portraits and animal pieces, cultivated (mainly the pastel) in 1882/84 (portraits of women and children, pierettes, Spanish dancers, cocottes) and achieved success with religious representations (Moritur in Deo, 1879 [Berlin, Nationalgalerie]), especially 1886 with his main work, the Panorama : Jerusalem on the day of Christ's crucifixion . Joseph Halder, a businessman from Munich, came up with the idea of ​​having one of the most moving scenes in world history, the crucifixion of Christ, depicted as a panorama painting (circular painting). He and his partner Franz Joseph Hotop commissioned the Munich painter Bruno Piglhein for this. The landscape painters Josef Block , Johann Adalbert Heine and Josef Krieger carried out the work according to his designs ; Piglhein created the figurative part himself. The monumental work was exhibited in Munich, Berlin and Vienna , in the latter place it then burned in 1892.

Copies of the same size (which were made by his assistants without Piglhein's knowledge or consent) are now in Einsiedeln , St. Anne de Beaupré near Québec (city) .

tomb

Grave of Bruno Piglhein on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The grave of Bruno Piglhein is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 9 - number 10 - number 29) location .

Works

Bruno Piglhein: Pierrot , approx. 1880–1890
  • Oil portrait by Friedrich Alfred Krupp , 1891
  • National Gallery Berlin (Portrait Richard Paul)
  • Kulturhistorisches Museum Görlitz (sketch for the Jerusalem panorama)
  • Kunsthalle Hamburg (Pan and Nymph; Flight to Egypt; Lion's Head; Portrait of a Lady; currently only serious picture [sketch] exhibited)
  • Neue Pinakothek (The blind in the poppy field [draft])
  • Neue Galerie - Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel (The Blind in the Poppy Field)
  • Secession Gallery Schleißheim (Dutch woman; girl with cat; study outdoors)
  • Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Königstiger) and in the Kunsthaus Zürich (centaur couple, also called centaur couple or centaur couple)
  • Memorial exhibition in 1895 in the Berlin National Gallery and in February 1908 in the Münchner Kunstverein.
  • Bruno Piglhein Panorama . The panorama opened on June 1, 1886 at Goethestrasse 45 in Munich was photographed in 10 individual images on the opening day, which are published below.
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The Jerusalem circular painting (panorama), composed of 10 individual photos .

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

Monographs:

  • Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. Self-published, Dresden 1898
  • Lothar Brieger : The pastel - its history and its masters. Verlag für Kunstwiss., Berlin 1921
  • Maximilian Donop (Ed.): Catalog of the exhibition of the works of Bruno Piglhein. Royal National Gallery, Berlin 1895
  • Brigitte Langer: The Munich artist studio of historicism . Dachau 1992. ISBN 3-89251-135-7
  • Richard Muther: History of Painting in the 19th Century. Hirth, Munich 1893
  • Friedrich Pecht : History of Munich Art in the 19th Century. Verlag für Kunst & Wiss., Munich 1888
  • Maximilian Vincenz Sattler : Guide through the panorama of the crucifixion of Christ. Hof- und Univ.-Druckerei, Munich 1886 (abridged parallel edition in English and French)
  • Maximilian Vincenz Sattler: Short guide through the panorama.
  • Hermann Arthur Lier:  Piglhein, Elimar Ulrich Bruno . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 790 f.
  • Franz Schiermeier: Panorama Munich, Illusion and Reality, Munich as the center of panorama production . Franz Schiermeier Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813190-2-6

Essays:

  • Panorama guide from Robert Wecker-Piglhein. See: The Piglhein - Wecker - Panorama: Jerusalem and the crucifixion of Christ .
  • Report by the Munich Art Association, 1894 p. 72 (Nekrolog)
  • Illustrirte Zeitung , Leipzig, No. 1972 from April 16, 1881
  • Kunst für Alle , 2 (1887) pp. 105–110; 9 (1894) p. 342 (Nekrolog)
  • Across Land and Sea , 53rd volume, 37th year, no. 16
  • Across Land and Sea , 73rd volume, 37th year, no. 25th
  • Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst , 22 (1887) pp. 217f.
  • Ludwig Trost: Bruno Piglhein's Panorama: Jerusalem and the crucifixion of Christ . DVA, Stuttgart 1887.

Web links

Commons : Bruno Piglhein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: Piglhein, Ludovicus . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 296 .
  2. ↑ Bruno Pighlein reports in his curriculum vitae about the training in the school of the Patriotic Society with Gensler and Vivié as teachers
personal data
SURNAME Piglhein, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piglhein, Elimar Ulrich Bruno (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1894
Place of death Munich