Carl Emil Doepler

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" Thor or Thunar", one of Carl Emil Doepler's illustrations
Corpus Christi procession

Carl Emil Doepler (born March 8, 1824 , † August 20, 1905 in Berlin ) was a German painter, book illustrator and costume designer .

life and work

Doepler began his training with Ferdinand Piloty in Munich . From 1849 to 1854 he was in New York , but then returned to Munich for further training in 1855 to see Piloty's son Carl Theodor . From 1860 to 1870 he was a costume designer at the theater in Weimar and a teacher of costume studies at the local art school . From 1870 he was appointed professor in Berlin. He painted numerous pictures, illustrated articles and books (e.g. Die Gartenlaube ), designed murals for private houses and painted paintings with motifs from Nordic-Germanic mythology.

Stage costumes for Wagner's Ring

As a costume designer, he designed 500 drawings for costumes for the first production of the Ring of the Nibelung at the newly founded Bayreuth Festival in 1876, which Richard Wagner criticized as "too historical". They were still used, but in 1881 the complete set of the world premiere with Doepler's costumes was sold to the opera director Angelo Neumann . He sent the Bayreuth Ring on tours throughout Europe. As a result, the costumes were seen as "trend-setting".

His wife Berta (née Schüler, died February 10, 1902 at the age of 80 in Berlin) was a cousin of Else Lasker-Schüler . His son Emil Doepler (1855–1922) was a painter , craftsman , commercial artist and heraldist .

Publications

  • 75 Years of Life Creating Striving: A Painter's Last Sketch (1900), Kessinger Pub Co, ISBN 978-1160762045

literature

  • Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel , Sigrid Countess von Strachwitz: Europe in Portrait: Drawings by Wilhelm Hensel 1794-1861, Volumes 1-2, Page 134, Gebr. Mann, 2005 ISBN 3786119945 .
  • Joachim Heinzle: The Ring of the Nibelung. Carl Emil Doepler's costume designs for the premiere in Bayreuth. , Primus Verlag , Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 9783826230370 .
  • Anna Amalia Library Weimar (Ed.): The Ring of the Nibelung. Carl Emil Doepler's costume designs for the first performance of the Ring in Bayreuth . Reprint of the original edition Berlin 1889. With a new afterword by Joachim Heinzle. Reprint Verlag Leipzig, Darmstadt, 2012.
  • Joachim Heinzle: Indian chiefs in Valhalla. A myth is costumed In: literaturkritik, issue 5/2013, online at literaturkritik.de .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Simek : Lexicon of Germanic Mythology (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 368). 3rd, completely revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-36803-X .
  2. ^ Karl Emil Doepler from General Artists' Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. Edited by Günter Meißner. Volume XXVIII, 2001, 238.
  3. ^ [1] Essay by Joachim Heinzle on the Nibelung costumes
  4. ↑ Volker Mertens , Das Nibelungenlied , Richard Wagner and no end, in: Die Nibelungen, pp. 59–496, here p. 480

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personal data
SURNAME Doepler, Carl Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doepler, Karl Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, book illustrator, costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1824
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1905
Place of death Berlin