Carl Theodor von Piloty

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Carl von Piloty, 1856

Carl Theodor von Piloty , also Karl , (born October 1, 1826 in Munich , † July 21, 1886 in Ambach am Starnberger See) was a German painter .

Grave of Carl Piloty on the old southern cemetery in Munich location
Painting “Allegory Monachia” in the large conference room of Munich's New Town Hall
The astrologer Seni on the corpse of Wallenstein (1855)

Life

Carl Theodor von Piloty began as a genre painter and is considered to be one of the most important representatives of realistic history painting , which intended to reproduce historical scenes, robes, etc. as true to detail as possible. After his father's death, from 1844 to 1847 he was in charge of his Piloty & Löhle lithographic establishment. In 1856 he was appointed professor at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1860 he was raised to the nobility ( ennoblement ). On June 3, 1860, Carl Piloty and Bertha Hellermann married in the Evangelical Church of St. Paul in Perlach . In 1874 he became director of the academy. He was an ambitious and valued teacher; Among his students were Franz von Lenbach , Franz Defregger , Nikiphoros Lytras , Joseph Wopfner , Rudolf Epp , Hans Makart , James Pitcairn-Knowles , Rudolf Köselitz , Wilhelm von Diez , Ludwig von Langenmantel and Hugo von Habermann the Elder. Ä.

The grave of Carl Piloty is located in the old southern cemetery in Munich (grave field 27 - row 1 - place 17) location .

Theodor Fontane addressed in his novel L'Adultera that there were quite a few “Piloty enthusiasts” during Piloty's lifetime .

A street in Essen-Holsterhausen is named after him. In the Nuremberg district of gardens behind the fortress , Pilotystr. one of the more important main roads.

Monumental painting Allegory of Monachia

Piloty's monumental painting Allegory Monachia is 15.30 m × 4.60 m in size and is Bavaria's largest canvas painting. It depicts 128 people from Munich's city history, clearly disregarding the Wittelsbach family . It was purchased for 50,000 guilders and first erected on July 21, 1879 in the Munich City Hall. In 1952 it came to the depot. The restoration began in 2000 and was opened to the public again on September 20, 2004 in the large town hall of Munich's town hall . The cost of the restoration was around 500,000 euros.

family

His father Ferdinand Piloty (the elder, 1786–1844) and his brother Ferdinand von Piloty (the younger, 1828–1895) were painters. Ferdinand von Piloty the Younger painted monumental murals in the Bavarian National Museum , in Munich's Maximilianeum , in the town hall of Landsberg am Lech and in Neuschwanstein Castle .

Carl Piloty's younger son, Oskar Piloty , an eminent chemist, died in the First World War. Robert Piloty , another son, became a lawyer and politician.

Works (selection)

Caesar's death (1865)
Die Girondisten Illustration of the oil painting in the American weekly newspaper Harper's Weekly 1881. The whereabouts of the painting is unknown, an oil sketch is in German private ownership.

literature

Thusnelda in the triumphal procession of Germanicus (1873)
  • Reinhold Baumstark , Frank Büttner (ed.): Great appearance. Piloty and history painting . DuMont, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8321-7291-2 - Publication for the exhibition “Big appearance - Piloty and history painting” (Munich, Neue Pinakothek, April 4 - July 27, 2003)
  • Jürgen Wurst, Alexander Langheiter: Monachia by Carl Theodor von Piloty in the Munich City Hall ; [on the occasion of the restoration and reassembly of Carl Theodor von Piloty's monumental painting “Monachia” in the large conference room of the Munich City Hall in September 2004]. Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88645-156-9

Web links

Commons : Carl Theodor von Piloty  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LAELKB, KB Munich St. Paulus (Perlach), 365-02
  2. ↑ hugo-von-habermann.de: Meisterschüler bei Piloty 1874-1879 ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 11, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hugo-von-habermann.de
  3. ^ Theodor Fontane: L'Adultera . Fischer's library of contemporary novels, Berlin 1908. p. 70.
personal data
SURNAME Piloty, Carl Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piloty, Karl Theodor von; Piloty, Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1886
Place of death Ambach on Lake Starnberg