Ernst Kirchbach

Ernst Sigismund Kirchbach ( Ernesto Kirchbach ; born April 23, 1831 in Meißen , Saxony , † August 16, 1876 in Striesen , Germany) was a history and portrait painter and director of the art academy in Santiago de Chile .

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painting by Ernst Kirchbach (ca.1870)

Ernst Sigismund Kirchbach was born in Meißen , Saxony , in 1831 .

At the Dresden Art Academy he was a student of the Bible illustrator and fresco painter Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld . At an early age he and his teacher painted the Rubens Hall at the Dresden Art Academy.

After the failure of the revolutionary movement of 1848/49 Kirchbach went into exile in London. There he had his own workshop for over five years and was busy decorating the Kensington Museum . In Arnold Ruge's house he married Emma Schmitthenner-Stockhausen, a teacher from the Rhineland, who was also exiled. Two sons were born in London: Ernst Wolfgang (* 1857, † 1906) and Johann Frank (* 1859, † 1912), who later became known as writers and artists. The family moved to Dresden, where his sons spent a substantial part of their childhood and attended various schools.

In 1869, Kirchbach was recruited by the Chilean consul general in Paris Fernández Rodella as director of the art academy in Santiago de Chile . In July he arrived in Chile and succeeded the founder of the academy, Alessandro Ciccarelli. He was a controversial teacher. One of his students, the history painter Pedro Lira , wrote in his painter biography lexicon in 1902 that Kirchbach's teaching in drawing had brought some progress, but was completely deficient in painting. Under his administration, only two students ( Cosme San Martín , later director of the Art Academy, and Pedro León Carmona ) received scholarships for further training in Europe. Modern authors see him in continuity with his predecessor, who operated a rigid teaching and allowed his students little freedom. The only innovation he introduced was his passion for topics from the Middle Ages. His absolute respect for the thematic description contrasted with the contemporary developments in painting in Europe. In Santiago in 1872 he designed the ceiling of the city theater, which was rebuilt after a fire, painted portraits of two Chilean presidents and a series of paintings with themes from antiquity. During his time in Chile, his third son Max Kirchbach (Maximus Paul Ferdinand Kirchbach, * 1872- † 1927), who worked as a musician and music teacher, was born. After his contract expired in 1875, he returned to Germany. He died in 1876.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Becker, Marie Luise; Levetzow, Karl v .: Wolfgang Kirchbach in his time . Correspondence and essays from the estate. Georg DW Callwey, Munich 1910. p. 29
2. ↑ The biographical data on Ernst Kirchbach available on the Internet are sparse and inconsistent. The year of birth is given:
   • 1830:

   Ernst Barlach, Friedrich Dross: The letters, 1888-1938 . Ed .: Friedrich Dross. tape 1 . R. Piper, Munich 1969 ( Google Book - Excerpt [accessed March 7, 2010]). P. 761

   • 1831:

   Hans Christoph Graf v. Seherr-Thoss:  Kirchbach. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 635 f. ( Digitized version ). (Family item)

   Cornelia Herold: Kirchbach, Ernst Wolfgang . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

   • 1832:

   Ernesto Kirchberg. Retrieved March 7, 2010 (Spanish). 

   Biografía Ernesto Kirchbach. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, accessed March 7, 2010 (Spanish). 

3. ^ Anton Bettelheim (ed.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog . tape 12-13 , 1909 ( Google Book Excerpt [accessed March 10, 2010]). P. 308
4. ↑ Chilean authors give Dresden as their place of birth . z. B .: Biografía Ernesto Kirchbach. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, accessed March 7, 2010 (Spanish). 
5. ^ ^{A b} Pedro Lira (1846-1912): Diccionario biográfico de pintores . Imprenta, Encuadernación y Litogr. Esmeralda, Santiago de Chile 1902, Kirchbach (Ernesto), p. 511 (Spanish, Memoria Chilena - documents [PDF; accessed March 7, 2010]). P. 210f
6. ^ Katherine Roper: German encounters with modernity . novels of imperial Berlin. Humanities Press International, Inc., London 1991, ISBN 0-391-03695-5 , pp. 292 (English, Google Book - limited preview [accessed March 7, 2010]). P. 48
7. ^ Ernst Barlach, Friedrich Dross: The letters, 1888-1938 . Ed .: Friedrich Dross. tape 1 . R. Piper, Munich 1969 ( Google Books [accessed March 7, 2010]). P. 761
8. ↑ Cornelia Herold, arr. by Martina Schattkowsky: Kirchbach, Ernst Wolfgang. In: Saxon Biography. Institute for Saxon History and Folklore, May 17, 2005, accessed on March 7, 2010 (German). 
9. ↑ Cornelius Ludwig: The painter in the revolt. Wolfgang Kirchbach's Salvator Rosa between art renewal and life reform . In: Achim Aurnhammer, Günter Schnitzler, Mario Zanucchi (eds.): Salvator Rosa in Germany. Studies on its reception in art, literature and music . Rombach, Freiburg i. Br. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7930-9533-0 , pp. 357-383 ( Google Book Fragments [accessed March 7, 2010]). P. 358
10. ↑ ^{a b} Luis Alvarez Urquieta (1877-1945): La pintura de Chile . colección Luis Alvarez Urquieta. Imprenta La Ilustración, Santiago de Chile 1928, p. 54 (Spanish, Memoria Chilena - documents [PDF]).
11. ↑ Gaspar Galaz Capechiacci, Milán Ivelic Kusanovic: La pintura de Chile . desde la Colonia hasta 1981. Editiones Universitarias de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 1981, p. 393 (Spanish, Memoria Chilena - documents [PDF; accessed March 7, 2010]). P. 78
12. ^ Biografía Ernesto Kirchbach. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, accessed March 7, 2010 (Spanish). 
13. ↑ Frank-Egon Stoll-Berberich: companions of Joseph Stolls - Kirchbach, max. August 11, 2017, accessed on August 12, 2017 (German). 

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