Eduard Kaempffer
Eduard Kaempffer (born May 13, 1859 in Münster , † March 22, 1926 in Obernigk , Silesia ) was a German painter , sculptor and medalist .
Life
From 1875 to 1880 he studied with Eduard von Gebhardt and Peter Janssen at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1880 to 1881 he was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where he studied painting technique with Ludwig von Löfftz and Anton Seitz . Then he lived again in Düsseldorf in the house of the widow of the painter Eduard Schoenfeld .
He spent 1885 in Rome, supported by the Rome Prize of the Abraham Wetter Foundation in Düsseldorf. In 1887 he received a grant from the Abraham Wetter Foundation for the design of the altarpiece Flagellation of Christ in the Martin Luther Church in Bad Neuenahr , which he created for the Rhineland and Westphalia art association . Back in Munich from 1891, he was appointed to the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Wroclaw in 1895 , where he worked as a teacher of natural drawing and figure painter until 1924. In 1893, 1894 and 1895 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .
Kaempffer was the teacher of Willibald Besta , Max Friese , Erich Kittmann , Oskar Obier , Paul Plontke , Robert Karl Pollog , Rudolf Priebe , Georg Wichmann and Carl Bantzer , with whom he was friends. He was involved in the Willingshausen painters' colony .
Kaempffer's most important work is his cycle of paintings in the stairwell of the town hall of Erfurt , which he created from 1889 to 1896. In exemplary scenes, he describes the Tannhauser legend , the Faust legend, the legend of the Count von Gleichen and his two wives and Martin Luther's years in Erfurt .
As a sculptor, he created some small bronzes from 1899 ("Tigress with Young", "Sieger", "Wedding Medal"), later sculptures are "Salome", "Bacchant with Panther", "Pegasus" and "Lamentation of Christ".
Works (selection)
Kaiser Rotbart (illustration for "Deutsche Sagen" by H. Weinert)
Girl with white hat
Battle of the Katzbach
Luther bids farewell to his friends at the monastery gate ( Erfurt town hall )
Painting in the stairwell of the Erfurt town hall
literature
- Kaempffer, Eduard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926, p. 416 .
- Kaempffer, Eduard. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 641 ( archive.org ).
- Petra Hölscher: The Academy for Arts and Crafts in Breslau. Paths to an art school 1791–1932. Ludwig, Kiel 2003, ISBN 3-933598-50-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Eduard Kaempffer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Kaempffer, Prof. Eduard. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on March 23, 2019 .
- ↑ 03788 Eduard Kaempffer , matriculation book 1841-1884, accessed on May 1, 2018
- ↑ Pempelforterstraße 60, Schönfeld, Eduard, widow, b. Baum, E. (owner); Kaempffer, Eduard, history painter, in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf. 1890 ( digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaempffer, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and medalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1926 |
| Place of death | Obernigk , Silesia |