Carl Johann Spielter
Carl Johann Spielter (born February 1, 1851 in Bremen ; † June 26, 1922 there ) was a German history and genre painter .
family
Spielter was born as the son of the transport insurance salesman Friedrich Wilhelm Spielter and his wife Caroline Josepha, b. Noelle, born. He had an older sister, Gertrude Caroline, who married the painter Julius Köhnholz in Bremen in 1864 , and three brothers. His brother Hermann worked as music director in Bremerhaven until 1894 and then emigrated to America .
Life
After a commercial apprenticeship, which he began in Bremen and continued in Liverpool and Birmingham in 1871 , Spielter decided to work as a painter in 1875 and moved to Munich . He began his painting training at the Royal Trade School with Ferdinand Barth and continued his studies from April 24, 1876 at the Royal Academy of Arts with Gyula Benczúr , Otto Seitz and Gabriel von Max .
In 1880 he made his successful debut at an art exhibition in Munich with the picture of the mad Ophelia , with the same picture he also made his debut in Bremen in 1880. Spielter devoted himself to Wilhelminian style history and genre painting based on the example of 17th century Dutch painting, which corresponded to the taste of his time.
From 1881, Spielter continued studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , where he became a master student of Hans Makart . He stayed in Vienna for almost ten years. He went on study trips to Italy, Turkey and Egypt. Together with his brother-in-law, the landscape painter Julius Köhnholz, he painted the rooms of the new steamer "Saale" in Bremen on behalf of North German Lloyd . In Vienna in 1889 he married his wife Veronica, born in Hungary. de Gavenda. In 1891 he went to Berlin for two years , and since 1893 he was back in Bremen.
His pictures appeared in illustrated sheets such as “ Gartenlaube ” or “ Über Land und Meer ”. After the turn of the 1900s, his works were criticized as old-fashioned by art critics. In search of new successes, he spent the period from 1904 to 1905 in New York , probably with his brother Hermann, and also organized exhibitions in his studio at 32 Union Square. When he returned to Bremen, he achieved less and less success. His pictures submitted for the International Art Exhibition Bremen in 1906 were no longer accepted. The last time two of his paintings were exhibited in the Kunsthalle was in November 1907.
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| SURNAME | Spielter, Carl Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German history and genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1922 |
| Place of death | Bremen |