Ferdinand Kobell

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Ferdinand Kobell (1806), engraved by Wilhelm Friedrich Schlotterbeck , after Joseph Hauber

Ferdinand Kobell (born  June 7, 1740 in Mannheim , †  February 1, 1799 in Munich ) was a German landscape painter , engraver and etcher .

Life

The Kobell family came from Hesse . Ferdinand was a grandson of Johann Heinrich Kobell, a spice merchant in Frankfurt am Main . His parents were Balthasar Kobell († 1762), collector, then councilor of the court chamber in Mannheim, and Maria Franziska Mezinger (1718–1762). An uncle, the art dealer Johann Heinrich Kobell, emigrated to Rotterdam in 1755 .

Ferdinand studied law in Heidelberg . In 1760 he became secretary of the court chamber. But he switched to painting, was released from civil service and received a scholarship at the Mannheim drawing academy . In 1764 he became a theater decoration painter. In the same year he married the daughter of the Councilor Maria Anna Lederer (1744-1820). The couple's seven children included the landscape, animal and battle painter Wilhelm von Kobell (1766–1853), Egid von Kobell (1772–1847), member of the Bavarian State Council , and Franz von Kobell (1779–1850), Secretary General of the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior . In 1766 Ferdinand became a cabinet painter. For further training he went to Paris for 18 months in 1768 . His brother Franz (1749-1822) became a landscape draftsman. In 1794 Ferdinand, whose sovereign Karl Theodor von der Pfalz had also been Elector of Bavaria since 1777, moved to Munich. In 1798 he became director of the Electoral Palatinate Bavarian Picture Gallery , which had been moved from Düsseldorf to Mannheim in 1795 . But just a year later he died in Munich.

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Old Bridge in Heidelberg (1784).
Main bridge in Aschaffenburg (1786), Munich .

Kobell's paintings, mostly painted in Berchem's manner, are characterized by effective treatment and ease of presentation. In 1809, Frauenholz published a collection of around 300 etchings in Nuremberg under the title “„uvre complet de FK” . 178 sheets were published by Kugler in Stuttgart in 1842. Stephan von Stengel wrote the list of his work (Nuremberg 1822).

In the Aschaffenburg State Painting Collection ( Johannisburg Castle ), Kobell's Aschaffenburg cycle, consisting of landscapes and cityscapes, is on permanent display. Within this cycle of pictures, six oil paintings, which are painted from different floors and windows of Johannisburg Castle, result in a kind of 300-degree panorama of the river and Spessart landscape around Aschaffenburg. These are the paintings with inventory numbers 6585 (title: "View from Aschaffenburg Castle to Marstall and Main Bridge"), 9802 ("Main Bridge near Aschaffenburg"), 6544 ("View from Aschaffenburg to Schönbusch Castle"), 6545 ("View from Aschaffenburger Schloss mainabwärts "), 6587 (" View from the castle in Aschaffenburg to the city towards the north ") and 6546 (" View from Aschaffenburg to Goldbach "). However, the catalog does not specifically point out the panoramic character of these six paintings. The close connection between these paintings is also not apparent to the viewer at first glance, because they are hung on different walls or not in a corresponding row. The Aschaffenburg cycle, which according to Eduard Coudenhove-Erthal originally consisted of 15 paintings, continues to include the paintings with inventory numbers 6586 (title: "Oberer See im" Schönen Busch "bei Aschaffenburg"), 9803 ("Das Schloss in Aschaffenburg") and 9807 (“View of Aschaffenburg from the East”), which shows the city and its surroundings from Godelsberg. Two large mountain landscapes are located in the cabinet in the imperial apartment of the New Residence in Bamberg .

literature

  • Oeuvre complet de Ferdinand Kobell: peintre de la cour électorale bavaro-palatine et graveur à l'eau-forte; content 179 planches de paysages et de figures. Frauenholz, Nuremberg 1809.
  • Stephan von Stengel : Catalog raisonné des estampes de Ferdinand Kobell. Riegel et Wiesner, Nuremberg 1822.
  • Franz Kugler: About Ferdinand Kobell and his etchings. Göpel, Stuttgart 1842.
  • Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart :  Kobell, Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 350-355.
  • Joseph August Beringer : Ferdinand Kobell: a study of his life and work. Hahn, Mannheim 1909.
  • Exhibition Ferdinand, Franz u. Wilhelm Kobell - hand drawings, watercolors and graphics. Municipal Palace Museum, Mannheim 1931.
  • Dorothee Schweizer: The graphics by Ferdinand Kobell. Diss. Tübingen 1962.
  • Margret Biedermann: Ferdinand Kobell: 1740–1799; the painterly and graphic work. Margret Biedermann Gallery, Munich 1973.
  • Margret Biedermann:  Kobell, Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 236 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Brigitte Schad: Aschaffenburg in the mirror of old graphics. City and Abbey Archives, Aschaffenburg 1990.

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Kobell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Königlich-Baierische (r) Polizey-Anzeiger of Munich. October 29, 1820, p. 710.
personal data
SURNAME Kobell, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1799
Place of death Munich