Carl Ludwig Fahrbach

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Carl Ludwig Fahrbach
Path between rocks into the valley

Carl Ludwig Fahrbach (born December 10, 1835 in Heidelberg , † January 20, 1902 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

Fahrbach completed his training from 1857 at the newly founded Grand Ducal Art School in Karlsruhe under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , who strongly influenced him in the sense of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . After his death in 1863, Fahrbach went to Munich, where he joined the art association , which mainly devoted itself to painting in front of nature outdoors. Fahrbach left Munich in 1866 to settle (1867?) In Düsseldorf, where a stimulating artistic life developed around the art academy , the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, and the “ artists' association Malkasten ”. From 1873 he lived in the same house as the painter Carl Irmer at Immermannstraße 26 in the immediate vicinity of the painters Heinrich Ewers , Julius Geertz , Alfred Chavannes and Fritz Ebel .

Fahrbach became a member of the two above-mentioned art associations and (from 1876 to 1878) of the "Düsseldorfer Radirclub" and worked in the studio of the artists' association Malkasten until his death on January 20, 1902. From 1862 he sent the exhibitions in Mannheim , Heidelberg , Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf and Cologne , from 1870 regularly the major art exhibitions in Berlin , Dresden , Munich, and later also Bremen and Vienna . Friends were colleagues Fritz Ebel , Carl Irmer and Hugo Oehmichen . With the factory owner Maria Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach, he had a lifelong friendly, artistically stimulating relationship between teachers and students. Fahrbach was married to Marie Niederheiser since 1871. The marriage remained childless.

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The motifs of this Düsseldorf landscape painter are

  1. the forest in all its moods and perspectives, often as large representative studio paintings with sparse accessories (deer), prepared in many studies;
  2. the landscape in small-format, appealing pictures, naturalistic to impressionistic and free from any academic constraint;
  3. Architecture, often as vedute-like watercolors.

A few etchings and a few portraits are known of him.

Many of his works have come into private ownership through the raffles of the art associations, only a few are in German museums, for example in Bergisch Gladbach , Düsseldorf, Freiburg , Heidelberg , Karlsruhe, Cologne, Krefeld , Minden , Stuttgart and Wiesbaden . One painting ( Watzmann , 1877, lost today) was in the possession of Emperor Wilhelm I , another ( Heidelberg Castle ) since 1881 in the possession of the future Queen of Sweden Victoria in Stockholm . A hotel lobby in Brussels painted by Fahrbach and C. Irmer has probably been destroyed. Hans Canon has a portrait of the young Fahrbach (1862), and Carl Wagner has two pictures of the older one (created posthumously in 1903) (see Wvz. I and II). After the destruction of two wars, around 600 works have now been documented (see below).

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Ludwig Fahrbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Immermannstrasse No. 22: Ewers, painter with wife from Weerth; No. 24: Gertz, painter; No. 26: Fahrenbach, painter, Immer, painter; No. 28: Chavannes, painter, Ebel, painter , in address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, 1873, p. 30
personal data
SURNAME Fahrbach, Carl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1902
Place of death Dusseldorf