Christian Burckhardt

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Christian Burkhardt , occasionally also Christian Burckhardt (born January 20, 1856 in Munich , † September 2, 1943 in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria ) was a German glass painter .

Family and education

Christian Burkhardt was a grandson of the Eisfeld porcelain painter and city treasurer Johann Burkhardt (1795–1879) and son of the glass painter Christian Heinrich Burckhardt , who came to Munich from Eisfeld in 1839 with his brother Heinrich Ludwig Burkhardt to study at the Art Academy. The mother was Mathilde, geb. Hopf, also from Eisfeld. After completing elementary school in the Protestant school, Christian attended the first three classes of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1867 to 1870. After briefly studying at the arts and crafts school, he enrolled in the Munich art academy on May 1, 1873 . one, where Sándor Wagner (antique class), Georg Friedrich Ziebland (architecture), Johann Leonhard Raab (copper engraving class) and from 1875 Alexander Strähuber and Ludwig von Löfftz were his teachers. From the end of the 1870s he worked as a designer and draftsman in the family business, since 1881 as a partner in the company now known as "Burkhardt & Sohn". In 1893, after the death of his father, he took over sole management. In 1881 he married his cousin Louise, b. Dressel, from Eisfeld (1855–1933) and lived with her in a house in Gabelsbergerstrasse in Munich, which her father and uncle bought in 1863 , where the workshop was located in the rear building. The marriage remained childless. After his uncle's death, he inherited his house in St. Georgen near Diessen am Ammersee and moved there after he retired. He died at the age of 87 in the hospital in Weilheim .

activity

Christian Burkhardt designed and drew cardboard boxes with ornaments for the orders for glass windows that came from Bavaria and the rest of Germany, but also from abroad. He was appointed ducal Bavarian court glass painter and was a member of the Munich Association for Christian Art . The commissioned works around / from 1880 included mainly those for churches in Alsace (Altkirch, Hagenau, Logelbach, Maßmünster, Obernai, Rosheim, Jung-St. Peter in Strasbourg, Zillisheim), but also for St. Martin in Landshut , St. Lukas in Munich (destroyed by the war), the parish churches in Saalfeld and Sonneberg in Thuringia and the Ulm Minster.

literature

  • Report on the existence and activities of the Munich Art Association, which was under the Most High Protectorate of His Royal Highness the Prince-Regent Luitpold of Bavaria: during the year 1894. Munich 1895, p. 71, and 1906, p. XI.
  • Eva Anwander-Heisse: Stained Glass in Munich in the 19th Century (= Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia Volume 161). Commission publishing house UNI-Druck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-87821-285-2 .
  • Elgin Vaassen: Pictures on Glass. Glass painting between 1780 and 1870 . Munich, Berlin, Deutscher Kunstverlag 1997, pp. 241–245.
  • Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 158–162.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the spelling can only be found in the register of the art academy
  2. ^ Matriculation, certificate records and annual reports 1867/68 to 1869/70: Maximiliansgymnasium Munich, archive.
  3. ↑ Entry in the matriculation book .
  4. ↑ Bayernkurier, May 12, 1885.
personal data
SURNAME Burckhardt, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burkhardt, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1943
Place of death Weilheim in Upper Bavaria