Carl Wünnenberg

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Carl (Karl) Wünnenberg (born November 10, 1850 in Uerdingen , † February 11, 1929 in Kassel ) was a German painter and professor at the academy in Kassel.

Life

Wünnenberg was born in 1850 as the son of the landscape painter Walther Wünnenberg (* 1818; † around 1900). His father, who was a merchant and later a railroad clerk, found painting as an autodidact at the end of the 1850s . Wünnenberg studied at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1864 to 1870 . Andreas and Karl Müller , Heinrich Lauenstein , Wilhelm Sohn , Ernst Deger Julius Roeting and Eduard Gebhardt were his teachers there. He mainly painted genre pictures . He was able to sell his first work, A Young Mother . He was a friend of the painter Louis Kolitz , whom he later followed to Kassel. From September 1876 he went on a study trip to Rome, where he stayed until 1880. At this time he also visited Paris and won the Great Gold Medal in London in 1878. From 1882 he taught as a professor at the Kassel Academy, but also lived in Rome for a while. He exhibited his pictures several times at the Munich annual exhibition in the Glaspalast . Later they were shown by the State Painting Gallery Kassel, the Städtische Galerie Kassel and the gallery of the Drexel Institute Philadelphia, among others. From 1914 to 1917 he designed the figure frieze Daughters of Danaos (removed in 1954) in the lecture hall of the Hessian State Museum in Kassel. The graphic collection preserves an associated watercolor collection. In addition to paintings, he also created sculptures, most of which remained as models. Because of an eye condition that ultimately led to complete blindness, he had to give up his artistic work early. In the municipal files in 1937 there is a reference that the sculptor Fritz Cauer was planning a tomb for Wünnenberg, but that it was never executed.

Works (selection)

Wünnenberg's picture Heimkehr in the catalog of the III. International art exhibition, Munich 1888
  • A young mother
  • Woman praying in the church choir
  • At the confessional
  • In the park
  • Lady with playing kittens
  • Centaur
  • Homecoming , in the catalog of the Munich annual exhibition in 1888
  • Children of Flora , in the catalog of the Munich annual exhibition 1891
  • Evening mood , 1895
  • Madonna with Child and Two Shepherds Making Music , 1895, signature lower right C. WÜNNENBERG , canvas, 172.5 × 128.2 cm, Museum Kassel
  • Sacrificial Flowers , 1896
  • Madonna and Pifferari , 1897, shown at the Munich annual exhibition in 1897
  • Italian farmer with child in a church , catalog of the State Painting Gallery Kassel 1913
  • Daughters of Danaos , 1914–17, figure frieze, formerly in the lecture hall of the Hessian State Museum in Kassel
  • Grape Picking , Gallery of the Drexel Institute Philadelphia 1935

student

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hessisches Landesmuseum (Darmstadt, Germany), Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel: Art in Hessen and on the Middle Rhine 28, 1988, p. 26; 40.
  2. ↑ Kurt Eitelbach, Koblenz Chamber of Commerce and Industry , Middle Rhine Museum Koblenz: The Romantic Middle Rhine: Oil paintings and watercolors from Koblenz and Rhenish private property: The occasion of the exhibition is the 150th anniversary of the Koblenz Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Verlag Das Museum 1983, p. 77.
  3. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
  4. ^ Wünnenberg, Karl In: The spiritual Germany at the end of the XIX. Century: Encyclopedia of German intellectual life in biographical sketches. First volume: The visual artists. Röder, Leipzig 1898, retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, p. 250.
  5. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages. 2 volumes. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 1, p. 606
  6. ^ Wünnenberg, Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 290-291 .
personal data
SURNAME Wünnenberg, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wünnenberg, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Uerdingen
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1929
Place of death kassel