Carl Wilhelm Huebner

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Karl Wilhelm Hübner , after a photograph drawn on wood by Adolf Neumann
Carl Wilhelm Huebner, photo by Arnold Overbeck , Gebr. G. & A. Overbeck in Düsseldorf

Carl Wilhelm Hübner (born June 17, 1814 in Koenigsberg , † December 5, 1879 in Düsseldorf ) was a German genre and landscape painter of Romanticism and Realism .

Life

Hübner, the son of a poor builder, received his first artistic lessons from Professor Johann Eduard Wolff in his hometown. Thanks to his support, Hübner was admitted to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1837 at the age of 23 . He stayed there until 1841 and was a student of Wilhelm von Schadow and Carl Ferdinand Sohn .

Hübner is considered a representative of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . From 1841 he ran his own studio in Pempelfort and had married Caroline, née Dorn, who gave him many children. Two sons went to the United States. The son Joseph Julius Huebner also became a painter.

Hübner's main works are oil paintings depicting scenes from everyday life, especially scenes of human and social conflicts. His focus was often on looking at "the other side", such as the life of thieves, smugglers or poachers.

A well-known work is the painting The Silesian Weavers , in which, under the impression of the economic situation of the weavers, the human, social and thus political conflicts of the working-class life under the sign of the changing world in the middle of the 19th century using the representation of a bourgeois manufacturer and the weavers who depend on him find expression ( pauperism , social question ). The picture was shown in 1844 to a large audience in Cologne, Berlin, Halberstadt and other German locations. It is related in style and statement to Wilhelm Kleinenbroich's painting The meal and slaughter tax . Because socially critical siding with the Silesian weavers gave him a part of art criticism before, tendency painting to operate.

In 1847, Hübner went on an extensive study tour of the United States . The sketches that he created formed the basis of many of his pictures after his return. On August 6, 1848, Hübner played a key role in founding the Malkasten artists' association and was also its chairman for a time. The Association of Düsseldorf Artists for Mutual Support and Help counted him on its board, and he was also a member of various other academies. He signed with Carl Huebner or C. Huebner . The Prussian king honored Hübner in 1864 with the title of professor , and later he received the Order of the Red Eagle . In December 1854 he decorated the Belgian King Leopold I in Brussels with the Order of Leopold .

Carl Hübner paid homage to the zeitgeist with his immense creative power, but his pictures lacked the “academic feeling” in the eyes of contemporary critics. He was accused of "realism" in the sense that he usually refrained from sentimentalizing and idealizing the events depicted in his paintings. Precisely for this reason, Huebner was stylized as a “German Courbet ” by later critics, especially in the art historical appraisal of the 1970s . Lilian Landes, on the other hand, sees in Hübner's painting a “willingness to innovate that only partially accepts the courage to change”.

Works (selection)

  • The Silesian Weavers , 1st and 2nd version, 1844; 3rd version, 1846
  • The right to hunt , later also as a lithograph by Wildt
  • The emigrants (farewell of the emigrants from their homeland) , 1846
  • Farewell to German emigrants in the churchyard , 1847, Museum Kunstpalast
  • The garnishment , 1847
  • The marriage proposal , 1850
  • Rescue from danger of fire , 1853, 1854 at the great exhibition in Brussels
  • The surprise was lithographed in 1853
  • The orphans
  • Twins
  • The widow
  • At the scribe , 1863
  • The sinner at the church door , 1867
  • On the last bench in the church , 1867 (1868 drawn on wood for the gazebo by the son Julius Huebner)
  • Consolation in Prayer 1875, bought by the Gallery Association in 1876
  • Fencing floor , undated

  • The Silesian Weavers , 3rd version, 1846

  • Farewell to the emigrants , 1855

  • Young sailor as a suitor , 1862

  • At the scribe , 1863

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Wilhelm Hübner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Another Düsseldorf master  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Huebner (Karl) . In: Conversations Lexicon. General German Real Encyclopedia . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1877, 12th edition, Volume 8, p. 415 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Marriage of the underage daughter (Maria Wilhelmina) of the married couple Professor Maler Carl Hübner and Caroline geb. Dorn lived in Düsseldorf in September 1856 with the businessman Franz Georg Groll. In the official gazette for the Düsseldorf administrative region. No. 63 (year 1865) p. 484 ( ub.uni-duesseldorf.de ).
  3. ^ Daughter Maria Wilhelmina born on August 21, 1846 in Pempelfort. in Düsseldorfer Kreisblatt and Daily Gazette (No. 233) of August 28, 1846 ( ub.uni-duesseldorf.de )
  4. ^ Son Joseph Julius was born on April 4, 1841 in Pempelfort (died December 30, 1874 of typhus). In Düsseldorfer Kreisblatt and Daily Gazette (No. 107) of April 21, 1841 ( ub.uni-duesseldorf.de )
  5. ^ Son Robert Anton Paul Hübner born on February 8, 1843 in Pempelfort. In Düsseldorfer Kreisblatt and Daily Gazette (No. 47) of February 17, 1843 ( ub.uni-duesseldorf.de )
  6. ^ Hubert Locher: German painting in the 19th century. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, p. 79 f.
  7. ^ Friedrich Mueller: The artists of all times and peoples. 1860, p. 412 ( books.google.de ).
  8. ^ Association of Düsseldorf artists for mutual support and help. Board of Directors: C. Hübner In: Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf. II. Public authorities, private companies, associations. Compiled on July 1, 1865 ( uni-duesseldorf.de ).
  9. ↑ Message from Brussels:… Prize distribution of this year's general art exhibition, the King of Belgium deigned the painter Carl Huebner from Düsseldorf the king. To award the Leopold Order. in Düsseldorfer Journal and Kreisblatt (No. 288) of December 5, 1854 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
  10. ↑ Lilian Landes: Literary models of socially thematic painting in the German pre-March and post-March - using the example of Carl Wilhelm Hübner. In: Marburg Yearbook for Art History. 36, 2009, pp. 355-390.
  11. ^ Farewell to German emigrants in the churchyard , at emuseum.duesseldorf.de, accessed on August 12, 2016.
  12. ↑ Consolation in Prayer , 1875 by Carl Huebner. In the supplementary directory of the municipal painting collection in Düsseldorf from December 31, 1877 ( ub.uni-duesseldorf.de )
personal data
SURNAME Huebner, Carl Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huebner, Karl Wilhelm; Huebner, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre and landscape painter of Romanticism and Realism
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1879
Place of death Dusseldorf