Ernst Zimmermann (painter)
Ernst Karl Georg Zimmermann (born April 24, 1852 in Munich ; † November 15, 1901 there ) was a German painter.
life and work
Ernst Zimmermann received his first art lessons from his father Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann (1815-1893) in 1868 , then attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where he became a student of Wilhelm von Diez , with whom he worked until 1874. After he had painted a few humorous genre pictures ( old man, monk mending his violin , 1871; tightrope walker in a village barn , 1874; young princess, walking , 1877), he took an upswing in history painting in 1879 with the twelve-year-old Christ in the temple with a special emphasis on the coloristic element that is partly related to the Venetians, partly to Antonio da Correggio .
Ernst Zimmermann, who lived in his father's house in Munich, was often in Hagnau on Lake Constance , his father's home, where he bought the Löwen inn in 1879. During one of his rides from Munich to Lake Constance, he suffered an injury from the hoof of his kicking horse, which resulted in years of nerve ailment. The inn then became too strenuous for him, so he sold it and acquired the Glaserhäusle in Meersburg , which Annette von Droste-Hülshoff had already described. He set up his studio here and spent many weeks of the year there. At the age of 49 he died of the consequences of a broken leg that he suffered on the street not far from his Munich apartment.
His later major works are: The Adoration of the Shepherds (1883), Christ and the Fishermen (1886), Christ Consolator (1888) and the genre pictures Music Lessons , The Evil Goose , The Brutal , The Business Friends . His fish still life was considered unequaled by contemporaries.
He was a royal professor. He had an extensive circle of friends and acquaintances, including Wilhelm Leibl , Franz von Lenbach , Wilhelm Busch and Prince Regent Luitpold .
Zimmermann was married to a sister of Emil Keyser . His son was the painter Ernst Reinhard Zimmermann (1881–1939). Since his wife came from Stans and their sister was married to Martin von Feuerstein , they often spent their holidays together in Stans, where they also met Eduard Zimmermann .
literature
- Carpenter, Ernst . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 16, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 909.
- Carpenter, Ernst Karl Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 509 .
- Horst Ludwig: Ernst Zimmermann, Alois Erdtelt and Adolf Echtler. Munich painter of the early days. Wilhelm Diez and his school. In: Weltkunst , 50, 1980, pp. 1024-1026.
- Rudolf Dimmeler (editor): Works by the sons Ernst Karl Georg Zimmermann (1852–1901) and Alfred Zimmermann (1854–1910) painter family RS Zimmermann. Exhibition catalog. Local history and history association, Hagnau 2004.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Academy of Fine Arts Munich: Matriculation book, 1968. Retrieved on November 1, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carpenter, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zimmermann, Ernst Karl Georg (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1901 |
| Place of death | Munich |