Christian Köhler (painter)

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Christian Koehler portrait by Friedrich Boser
Awakening Germania , 1849 - In the Düsseldorf Gallery in New York City, this picture was one of the most admired paintings in the exhibition by painters from the Düsseldorf School.
Othello with his sleeping wife , 1859
Christian Köhler in his studio in front of his picture “Spring” , lithograph after a drawing by Wilhelm Camphausen , 1845

Christian Köhler (born October 13, 1809 in Werben ; † January 30, 1861 in Montpellier ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Köhler became known as the groom of the writer Carl Gottlieb Samuel Heun with the painter Wilhelm Schadow . He followed this - like Eduard Bendemann , Heinrich Mücke and Karl Ferdinand Sohn - from Berlin to Düsseldorf , where he belonged to his inner circle of students. In the 4th quarter of 1827 he enrolled in the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he entered the upper class of performing artists in 1829/30 and the master class in 1837/38. In 1837 Köhler was one of the Düsseldorf artists who exhibited in the Palais Brühl in Dresden, thereby establishing the reputation of the "Düsseldorf School". In 1845 he was one of the painters portrayed by Henry Ritter and Wilhelm Camphausen in the publication Schattenseiten der Düsseldorfer Künstler . In 1851 he took part in the Salon des Bruxelles exhibition, along with other Düsseldorf painters . Since the school year 1851/52 Köhler was a professor at the art academy and represented Theodor Hildebrandt , whose successor he succeeded by becoming head of the antique hall and a painting class from 1855. After falling ill in the school year 1859/60, he sought cure in southern France, where he died in 1861. Köhler was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . Köhler's pupils were Heinrich von Angeli , Carl Hertel , Olaf Isaachsen , Vincent Stoltenberg Lerche , Carl Halfdan Schilling , Zdzisław Suchodolski and Fredrik Wohlfahrt . The French revue artistique et littéraire honored Köhler in a necrology in 1861 as " Horace Vernet de l'Allemagne". Köhler's grave is on field V in the southern part of the Golzheim cemetery .

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Köhler's pictures are characterized by well thought-out compositions and reflect knowledge of the Italian Renaissance ; Köhler also holds a high status as a colorist . His pictures, created in the 1830s, are indebted to the Nazarenes in their choice of subject, form and color and show the “soul painting ” cultivated in Düsseldorf.

Of his pictures, often reproduced by engraving and lithography, the following are significant:

literature

Web links

Commons : Christian Köhler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friendship gallery of individual portraits of Düsseldorf painting students and their friends. ( duesseldorf.de )
  2. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 2, p. 41.
  3. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.), Volume 1, p. 142.
  4. ↑ Christian Liedtke, Sabine Schroyen: The beautiful, idyllic coexistence at the Academy fell apart almost entirely. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.), Volume 1, p. 290.
  5. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.), Volume 1, p. 40.
  6. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.), Volume 1, pp. 364, 426–443.
  7. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.), Volume 1, p. 366.
  8. ↑ Hagar and Ismael (1847) in the stiftung-volmer.de portal , accessed on October 19, 2013.
  9. ^ From advertising horse boy to important painter . Article from September 8, 2011 in the volksstimme.de portal , accessed on October 19, 2013. Wolfgang Cortjaens: Berlin - Düsseldorf via Liège: Christian Köhler's 'Semiramis' . In: The founding of the National Gallery. The donor Wagener and his pictures . For the National Gallery - National Museums in Berlin ed. by Birgit Verwiebe and Angelika Wesenberg, Cologne - Weimar - Vienna 2013, pp. 157–166.
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Advertise (Elbe)
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1861
Place of death Montpellier