Emil Volkers

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Emil Volkers at the Baden Salon in 1895 (second from the left in the second row from the bottom, between the two women)
Wilhelm I on the way to the front inspection , 1872
Romanian rural people , around 1875
Black horse in landscape , 1886
Gypsy camp in front of Düsseldorf , undated
Saddled sport horse , 1895

Emil Ferdinand Heinrich Volkers (born January 4, 1831 in Birkenfeld (Nahe) , † May 30, 1905 in Düsseldorf ) was a German horse and genre painter from the Munich and Düsseldorf schools .

Life

Volkers grew up in Birkenfeld, then part of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg , where he discovered his preference for horses at the post office there. He began his artistic training at the Dresden Art Academy under Ernst Wilhelm Rietschel and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld . In 1852 he moved to the Munich Art Academy , where he became a student of the famous horse painters Albrecht and Franz Adam . From 1857 Volkers took up permanent residence in Düsseldorf, where he joined the artists' association “Malkasten” . From Düsseldorf he often visited horse stables and stud farms , such as the Trakehnen stud in East Prussia , the Celle state stud and the Friedrich Alfred Krupps stable at Villa Hügel in Essen . He also made trips to Italy and Romania . In the Great Art Exhibition in Berlin in 1890, Volkers won a gold medal. Volkers was sponsored by Prince Karl of Romania , who appointed him as court painter to Bucharest in 1867 , and also by Grand Duke Friedrich August von Oldenburg , who appointed him professor. The sons Fritz and Karl Volkers also became known as horse painters. Another son, Max Volkers , painted figures and landscapes.

Work (selection)

Volkers mainly appeared through horse painting. Mostly he made his pictures in oil on canvas. He also created realistic horse portraits of certain horses that were of particular importance to their owners. His equestrian portraits of Wilhelm I (1872) and Otto von Bismarck (1875) represent a combination of horse and portrait painting , the glorifying style of which leads to the personality cult of Wilhelminism . In addition, Volkers painted genre pictures, especially from life in the Balkans , recording numerous ethnographic details. Sometimes he also chose military themes, always depicting horses. His horse painting often reached a photorealistic accuracy. A contemporary rated this as “too precise a reproduction” and as a temptation to adopt a “harsh and unpainting view”, the cause of which he attributed to the painter's hippological interest and knowledge. In addition to painting, Volkers was also active in the fields of drawing, illustration and graphics, in particular for non-fiction books about horses, for example for the books Excellent Horse Breeds of Europe (1869) or Illustrations of Excellent Horse Breeds (around 1880).

  • Horse portrait Victoria , 1857
  • Horse portrait Diana , 1857
  • Wilhelm I on the way to the front inspection , 1872
  • Bismarck on horseback , 1875
  • Romanian rural people , around 1875
  • Horses in the pasture , 1881
  • Black horse in landscape , 1886
  • Horse and hunting dog in the stable , 1893
  • Chamant horse portrait , 1902
  • Gypsy camp in front of Düsseldorf , undated
  • The ride , undated

Web links

Commons : Emil Volkers  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Manfred W. Graf: The horse painter Prof. Emil Volkers and the races of Europe . Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch (MFB-Verlags-Ges.), Eisenach 1995, ISBN 3-931431-01-0 .
  • Walter Göhl: The horse painter Emil Volkers (1831-1905) . In: Local calendar of the Birkenfeld district . Vol. 51, 2006, pp. 178-181.
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , p. 390.
  • Volkers, Emil Ferd. Heinrich . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 530 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Volkers: Portraits of excellent stallions from the royal Hanoverian State Stud Celle , Hamburg 1857
  2. ↑ Stephen Pielhoff: Not from a single source. Friedrich Alfred Krupp's relationships as a founder and patron . In: Michael Epkenhans, Ralf Stremmer: (Ed.): Friedrich Alfred Krupp. An entrepreneur in the empire . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60670-0 , p. 120
  3. ↑ Emil Volkers biography in the Galerie der Künstler ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website in the portal gdk-galerie.de , accessed on December 27, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gdk-galerie.de
  4. ↑ Short biography (obituary) in: Die Kunst. Monthly books for free and applied arts . Eleventh volume, Verlagsanstalt F. Bruckmann AG, Munich 1905 , p. 464, digitized version retrieved from the scans.library.utoronto.ca portal on December 27, 2013
  5. ^ Entry on Emil Volkers in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on March 19, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Article Volkers, Fritz in the portal stiftung-volmer.de , accessed on December 28, 2013
  7. ^ Isabel Skokan: Germania and Italia. National myths and heroes in 19th century paintings . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2009 (dissertation University of Freiburg 2007), ISBN 978-3-86732-036-8 , p. 274
  8. ^ Raimond Selke: Emil Volkers. Chronicler of life in the Balkans. In: Weltkunst. Journal for Art and Antiques , Volume 76, 2006, Issue 2, ISSN  0043-261X , p. 80 f.
  9. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt: On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century , published by the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen , Verlag August Bagel, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 236, accessed from the archive.org portal on December 28, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Volkers, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volkers, Emil Ferdinand Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German horse and genre painter from the Munich and Düsseldorf schools
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Birkenfeld (Nahe)
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1905
Place of death Dusseldorf