Christian Kehrer

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Christian Wilhelm Karl Kehrer (born May 30, 1775 in Erbach ; † February 21, 1869 there ) was a German hunting and animal painter , court painter and archivist .

Medallion with a portrait of Kehrer on the base of the monument to Count Franz I of Erbach-Erbach on the market square in Erbach / Odenwald.

Life

Christian Kehrer came from a family in the Odenwald that produced numerous artists. His older brother was the painter Karl Christian Kehrer .

After his school days, Count Franz I von Erbach-Erbach enabled him to stay in Würzburg from 1793 to 1797, where he learned from the court painter Johann Christoph Fesel (1737-1805). Kehrer exhibited for the first time in 1800 in the Berlin Academy exhibition, where he showed a roebuck motif. After a brief employment in Saarbrücken at the court of the Duchess of Braunschweig-Bevern, he returned to Erbach. He initially received a comparatively low-paid position as the private secretary of Count Franz, who recognized his talent as a painter and promoted him. In 1814 he was promoted to the archives council.

Kehrer remained connected to Erbach and the Erbacher Hof throughout his life. It can be seen as an anecdote that he briefly fell out of favor in 1820. Kehrer pointed out to the count early on that a legionary eagle found near Würzberg was an obvious fake. Nevertheless, the so-called eagle stone was set up at the supposed location . But Charlotte's intercession in Isenburg-Birstein prevented him from turning his back on Erbach. In the long term, this did not affect his relationship with the Count's House. The base of the monument to Count Franz, inaugurated in 1874 on the Erbach market square, bears medallions from Forstrat Friedrich Louis (S), the politician Johann Friedrich Knapp (O) and a portrait of Kehrers in the north.

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For the Erbach collections he created folio catalogs and copied old manuscripts and illustrations. His illustrations of the excavations on the Odenwald Limes are among the earliest such documentaries in Germany.

Kehrer also received large orders beyond Erbach. Of King Frederick I . he was commissioned to paint a hunting lodge in the park of Freudental Castle . From 1823 to 1827 he produced large hunting pieces for Duke Wilhelm von Nassau for the Platte hunting lodge near Wiesbaden.

Around 1861 he made a partial copy based on an illustrated manuscript from the former property of Count Erbach-Erbach, which is now in the Germanic National Museum.

  • Stone tower and wooden tower at the Roman Odenwald Limes, watercolor, around 1800.

  • Steinbach Monastery at the beginning of the present century. Watercolor on paper, around 1800.

  • View of Fürstenau Palace , watercolor on paper, around 1800.

  • Eulbacher Park , oil painting, around 1820.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ivory Art in Erbach
  2. ↑ Dietwulf Baatz : The Adlerstein near Würzberg (Odenwaldkreis). In: Archaeological correspondence sheet . 2004, issue 1, pp. 107-123.
  3. ^ Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann : The archaeological research of the Roman times in Hessen. In: Dietwulf Baatz, F.-R. Herrmann (Ed.): The Romans in Hessen. Licensed edition of the 1989 edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-933203-58-9 , p. 21 f.
  4. ↑ Birgit Sander: Art Landscape Rhein-Main: Painting in the 19th Century, 1806-1866. Museum Giersch, Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 81.
  5. ^ Eduard and Anne Isphording: Herbs and Flowers: Annotated inventory of botanical books up to 1850 in the library of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg. Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-936688-31-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Kehrer, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kehrer, Christian Wilhelm Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hunting and animal painter, court painter and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Erbach
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1869
Place of death Erbach