Ferdinand Kiesling

Karl Ferdinand Adolf Kiessling , even Kiessling or Kiessling (* 8. August 1810 in Brandenburg (Havel) , † 5. October 1882 in Siethen , Teltow ), was a German landscape painter of romanticism . He is considered a representative of the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

Life

Kiesling was born the son of a road construction inspector and attended the city school in Brandenburg (Havel). From 1833 to 1838 he studied with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , the then most important academy for landscape painting in Central Europe. From 1833 to 1836 he appeared there through various landscape paintings, in particular of the Schweizertal near Sankt Goarshausen , the Rhine near Oberwesel , the Ahr and the Mark Brandenburg . In 1836 he made his debut at the Academic Art Exhibition in Berlin with seven works. Kiesling moved to Potsdam in 1838 , exhibited at the art association there, and continued to take part in the annual academic exhibitions in Berlin as well as in the exhibitions of other art associations (e.g. in Leipzig). Kiesling remained lifelong loyal to landscape painting. His works were bought not only by the bourgeois educated public, but also by the Prussian royal family. The painter is not particularly important in terms of art history, although he was successful at times. Kiesling moved to Berlin in 1871.

As early as 1838, the Berlin-based collector Athanasius Graf Raczinski saw Kiesling's works in Düsseldorf. Raczinski also bought works from him. They were housed in the count's large city palace, which stood exactly at the point in Berlin where the Reichstag rises today. The collections of the German-Polish count are now in Warsaw.

literature

Kiesling, Ferdinand . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1861, Volume 1, p. 678 f.
Kiesling, Ferdinand . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 276 .

Web links

Ferdinand Kiessling. Data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Karl Ferdinand Kiessling , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145.

^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 129, no. 87 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Kiesling, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kiesling, Karl Ferdinand Adolf (full name); Kiessling, Ferdinand; Kiessling, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landscape painter of the Romantic period
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brandenburg (Havel)
DATE OF DEATH	October 5, 1882
Place of death	Siethen , Teltow district

[1] Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145.

[2] Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 129, no. 87 ( digitized version )