Eugène Klinckenberg

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Eugène Klinckenberg (* 1858 in Haus Lemiers , Limburg, Netherlands; † July 11, 1942 in Aachen ) was a painter in Aachen.

Life

After completing his high school studies in Bedburg , Klinckenberg had been a student at the Düsseldorf Academy under Professor Albert Baur from 1880 . In 1881/82 he was at the École des Beaux-Arts in Brussels as a student of Charles Verlat , as well as the director of the academy there, the history and genre painter Jean-François Portaels , who accepted him into his master's studio.

Klinkenberg spent study visits to Paris and Rome. After he settled in Munich, he co-founded the Munich Secession , whose exhibitions he judged and repeatedly sent. In 1884 he married the daughter of the Düsseldorf academy professor Gustav Stever .

From 1896 he was settled in Aachen. In 1903 he was appointed to the Aachen School of Applied Arts , where he was the head of the painting and drawing class until 1913. Numerous capable painters and graphic artists owe their training to him, such as the important poster artist Jupp Wiertz , Heinrich Linzen , known as an animal painter , as well as Ewald Mataré and Heinz Heinrichs . After leaving the arts and crafts school, Klinckenberg opened a private painting and drawing school in his studio on Friedrichstrasse in Aachen, which enjoyed a good visit. In addition, he was the new founder of the Aachen artist association with pencil and chisel .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museumsverein Aachen eV: The Aachen artists who died in the war in 1939/45 . Title addition: On the commemorative exhibition of the Aachen artists who died in the war - March 1946 - in the Suermondt Museum . Aachen 1946