Ferdinand Keller (painter)

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Ferdinand Keller, correcting a picture of his pupil Christian Wilhelm Allers , portrayed by him
Selene , 1886

Ferdinand Keller , later Ferdinand von Keller , (born August 5, 1842 in Karlsruhe ; † July 8, 1922 in Baden-Baden ) was a German history painter of historicism and university lecturer .

Life

Ferdinand Keller's father Joseph Keller was a civil engineer and in 1857 was commissioned to build river regulations, bridges and road construction in Brazil . Fifteen-year-old Ferdinand Keller was allowed to accompany him with his brother Franz . During his four-year stay, Keller trained his talent for drawing in the tropical landscape on an autodidactic basis .

After returning from Brazil, Ferdinand Keller began studying at the Karlsruhe Art Academy in 1862 . He studied with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , the director of the art academy at the time. After Schirmer's death in 1863, Keller continued his studies with Ludwig des Coudres . Dissatisfied with the training at the art academy, he took private lessons in Hans Canon's studio from 1864 . Study trips to Switzerland and France followed in 1866. From 1867 to 1869 Keller lived in Rome, where he made the acquaintance of Anselm Feuerbach ; both had their studios in Rome in the same house.

In 1870 Ferdinand Keller was appointed to teach portrait and history painting at the Karlsruhe Art Academy. In 1873 he was appointed professor and one of his pupils was Carl Geist . From 1880 to 1913 he was director of the art academy. Ferdinand Keller died in Baden-Baden in 1922 at the age of 79.

Honors

  • Ferdinand-Keller-Strasse in the Karlsruhe district of Knielingen was named after him in 1964.
  • The Württemberg king awarded him the personal title of nobility.

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He celebrated his first great success with the historical painting “Death of Philip II” in 1867. In numerous monumental paintings he glorified historical, dynastic or cultural events in German and Baden history. The five by seven meter painting “The apotheosis of Kaiser Wilhelm I ” was created in the three emperor year 1888. It was acquired by Kaiser Wilhelm II a year later and is now on permanent loan from the Berlin National Gallery in the Berlin Museum .

Other works by Keller were the jewelry for the Karlsruhe court theater and for the Dresden court theater . In the rebuilt Dresden house, the painting can be admired again today on the restored theater curtain. The decoration of the König-Karl-Halle in the State Museum Stuttgart inspired the Württemberg king so much that he awarded Keller the personal title of nobility . On behalf of Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden, Keller painted the "History of Baden". The colossal painting is now in the Baden-Baden State Art Gallery . Numerous other orders were made for public buildings and aristocratic palaces. Numerous books have been illustrated with his etchings.

painting

  • Humboldt on the Orinoco (sketch), around 1860
  • Travelers in Brazil (sketch), around 1860
  • Travelers in Brazil (oil on canvas; 110.7 cm × 149.4 cm), 1863
  • Bay of Rio de Janeiro (oil on canvas; 63.5 cm × 87 cm), 1864
  • Death of Philip II of Spain (oil on canvas), 1866 or 1867
  • The Alchemist (oil on canvas; 116 cm × 155 cm), 1868
  • Assumption of Mary (fresco; 800 cm × 300 cm), 1871
  • Modern Diana (oil on canvas; 130 cm × 223.2 cm), 1872
  • "The imagination carries the torch of enthusiasm", decorative curtain of the court theater in Dresden
    • 1st draft, oil on canvas, 65 cm × 93 cm, 1874–1875
    • 2nd draft, oil on canvas, 131 cm × 156 cm, 1874–1875
    • Execution, 1875
  • Antiquity (fresco; 940 cm), Karlsruhe, 1875
  • Humboldt on the Orinoco (oil on canvas; 206 cm × 160 cm), 1877
  • Draft sketch Türkenlouis (oil on canvas; 47 cm × 71 cm), 1877–1878
  • Türkenlouis (oil on canvas; 310 cm × 530 cm), 1879
  • Hero and Leander (oil on canvas; 267 cm × 178 cm), 1880
  • Albert Bürklin, 1883
  • Flora, oil on canvas, 98 cm × 178 cm, 1883
  • Wilhelmine Keller (oil on canvas; 212 cm × 114.5), 1884
  • “The founding of Heidelberg University ”, oil on canvas, 270 cm × 500 cm, in the auditorium of the old university , 1886
  • Selene (oil on canvas; 76 cm × 110.5 cm), 1886
  • Make males! (Oil on canvas; 86 cm × 122 cm), 1891
  • Middle Ages (wall painting in the Stuttgart State Trade Museum ), 1894–1896
  • Modern times (wall painting in the State Trade Museum in Stuttgart), 1894–1896
  • Kaiser Wilhelm I, the victorious founder of the German Empire (oil on canvas; 500 cm × 700 cm), 1888
  • Apotheosis of Kaiser Wilhelm I (sketch), 1890
  • Glorification of Emperor Friedrich III (oil on canvas; 410 cm × 262 cm), 1890
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II (oil on canvas; 350 cm × 235 cm), 1893
  • Naiads, 1893
  • Mythological landscape, 1894
  • Arcadia (oil on canvas; 86 cm × 111 cm), probably around 1899
  • In the grove of Poseidon, 1900
  • Renunciation (oil on canvas; 70 cm × 100 cm), 1900–1901
  • Böcklin's grave (oil on canvas; 117 cm × 99 cm), 1901
  • Classical landscape (oil on canvas; 101.6 cm × 81.2 cm) 1902
  • Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden (oil on canvas; 279.5 cm × 167.3 cm), 1903
  • Double portrait of the Grand Duke of Baden (oil on canvas), 1906
  • Nymph drinking at a spring (oil on canvas; 43.4 cm × 52 cm), 1907

  • Coastal landscape near Rio de Janeiro

  • Flora, 1883

  • Cleopatra is carried into the palace by a slave

  • Apotheosis of Kaiser Wilhelm I.

  • Portrait of Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden, 1900

drawings

  • Humboldt on the Orinoco (sketch), around 1860
  • Travelers in Brazil (sketch), around 1860
  • Self-portrait (study for Uffizi painting, pastel; 57 cm × 50 cm), 1889
  • Grand Duchess Luise in mourning (pastel; 83.5 cm × 64.5 cm) 1890

Exhibitions

  • November 12 to December 5, 1912 in the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
  • July 18 to October 4, 1992 in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

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literature

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Keller  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ferdinand Keller: history painter stadtlexikon.karlsruhe.de.
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1922
Place of death Baden-Baden