Carl Fink (painter)

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Carl Fink (also: Karl WE or Carl WE Fink or Finck * September 22, 1814 in Kassel ; † January 17, 1890 ibid) was a German architecture , theater and decoration as well as animal and plant painter , draftsman and poet . He published poems , fables and several writings about the geometric construction and coloring of the flat ornament as well as about the life of our house cat . Because of his cat depictions, he was nicknamed "Katzenfinck" in old age .

life and work

" Karlshafen "; Steel engraving by Johann Heinrich Martens after a drawing by Finks, around 1840

Born at the beginning of the 19th century in Kassel as the son of a registrar , Carl Fink studied at the art academy there with Friedrich Wilhelm Müller and at the same time copied templates in the Kassel Old Masters Picture Gallery .

From 1835 Fink exhibited in Hanover for the first time . Through his acquaintance with Eduard Primavesi , Fink came to the theater painting, worked in 1836 in Hanau and Würzburg , in 1839 and 1840 in Berlin at the Königstädter Theater , from 1840 to 1842 also in Cologne . Fink stayed in Italy from 1842 to 1848 , including a total of around 5 years in Venice , where he especially created larger architectural pictures. From Rome he returned to Kassel in 1848, where he worked at Escheberg Castle .

"Cover" of the Ernst August album created on the occasion of the inauguration celebrations of the monument ;
16 color plate lithograph after Fink von Klindworth's Hof-Druckerei , around 1862.

From 1852 - the year of the opening of the new opera house planned by court architect Laves in Hanover - Carl Fink worked as a court theater and decoration painter and as a drawing teacher in the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover . From 1856 he delivered to King George V an " album consisting of 131 sheets of drawings of Central American plants ". The plant illustrations were later to be printed as lithographs and provided with descriptive explanations - today, however, are considered lost .

Around 1862 Fink made a painting with a "View of a winter garden with tropical plants, palm trees and exotic birds", which shows the interior of the palm house of the Herrenhausen mountain garden built by Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves . This oil painting was owned by the Guelphs until 2005 .

Also up to 1862 Carl Fink supplied the watercolors for the cover picture as well as 19 plates for the Ernst August album, which was reproduced by the Hof- Druckerei Klindworth on the occasion of the parade for the inauguration of the Ernst-August-Monument .

After the botanist Hermann Wendland returned to Hanover from his research and collecting trip through Costa Rica in 1858, Fink made an oil painting of the newly discovered South American plants that Wendland had brought with him .

Fink worked in Hanover until 1866, the year of the Battle of Langensalza and the annexation of Hanover by Prussia, which also took place in 1866 .

" Crypt under the northern choir in Fritzlar Cathedral ";
1868, Museum Landscape Hessen Kassel

From 1869 Carl Fink taught as an employee in his hometown at the commercial drawing school in Kassel and at the local secondary school for girls .

Fink had two sons who worked as painters and sculptors .

Further works or their whereabouts

Some of Carl Fink's works came into the possession of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library with the Royal Garden Library Herrenhausen (KGBH) , others can be found in the Lower Saxony Main State Archives . In addition to oil paintings in the Hessen Kassel museum landscape , the following works are also known:

  • 1856 to 1866: album with 131 sheets with drawings of Central American plants; Whereabouts unknown
  • around 1858: Oil painting with Hermann Wendland's newly discovered plants in South America; Whereabouts unknown
  • around 1861: Inauguration of the Ernst August monument at the train station Sept. 21, 1861 , with additional image fields, view through Schmiedestrasse to the Marktkirche and a view of the old town hall , color lithograph, 25.8 × 18.5 cm
  • around 1862: "View of a winter garden with tropical plants, palm trees and exotic birds"; owned by the Guelphs until 2005
  • around 1862: Cover picture and 19 sheets for the Ernst August album

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Fink  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Georg Ruppelt (responsible): Königliche Gartenbibliothek Herrenhausen (KGBH) - Manuscripts / Sign .: KGBH-29 / Title: Tropical landscape with palm trees ( Memento from 25 June 2015 in the Internet Archive ), with a short vita on Fink, as PDF from the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ulf Leinweber (Responsible): Finck, Carl WE , biography of the painting depicting the crypt under the northern choir in the Fritzlar Cathedral in the subsection inventory catalog of 19th century paintings, Museum Landscape Hessen Kassel malerei19jh.museum -kassel.de last accessed on June 26, 2015
  3. ^ Hugo Thielen : Opera House. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 487 f.
  4. ^ A b Wilhelm August Degèle , Carl Fink, Carl Oesterley , Wilhelm Kretschmer , Justus Heinrich Jakob Molthan : Ernst August Album , Hanover: Klindworth's Verlag, [1862?]; high-resolution digital copy of the HathiTrust .
  5. ↑ Helmut Knocke : Wendland, (2) Hermann. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . P. 383.
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Annexation 1866. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 28 f.
  7. ^ Alheidis von Rohr : Picturesque-idealized. City views of Hannover (= writings of the Historisches Museum Hannover. Issue 17), Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer, Hannover 2000, ISBN 3-910073-18-2 , p. 96 ( books.google.de preview).
personal data
SURNAME Fink, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fink, Carl WE; Finck, Carl; Finck, Karl; Finck; Karl EW; Finck, Carl WE
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman, drawing teacher, poet as well as fable and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1890
Place of death kassel