Frank Kirchbach

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Frank Kirchbach

Frank Kirchbach (born June 2, 1859 in London , † March 19, 1912 near Schliersee ) was a German history , portrait , genre and landscape painter , who also worked as a graphic artist and illustrator .

Life

Kirchbach's father was the history painter Ernst Kirchbach . Frank Kirchbach received his first training at the Dresden Academy , became a pupil of the Munich Academy in 1878 , exhibited for the first time in Munich and Berlin in 1881 and in 1882 won first prize for composition with his painting “Duke Christoph the fighter on the corpse of the last Abensberger” . In 1882 he toured Italy, in 1883 France and England. In 1882/83 he took part in the painting of the Drachenburg Castle near Bonn with a Nibelungen cycle whose main picture, “The Quarrel of the Queens”, originates from him. He then studied in Paris , where he trained with Mihály Munkácsy and created the large painting “Ganymed”. In 1884/86 the colossal painting "Christ drives the changers out of the temple" was painted in Munich. But he was mainly occupied with illustrations, for example for the works of Goethe and Paul Heyses as well as for Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Bulwers The Last Days of Pompeii and various youth literature. In 1889 he was appointed head of the painting and composing school at the Städel'sche Institut in Frankfurt am Main , where he worked for seven years, before returning to Munich in 1896 as a teacher of life drawing at the Munich Academy. The painter Raffael Schuster-Woldan was one of his students . In his last years he mainly painted portraits.

  • Frank Kirchbach, Ganymede

  • Illustration by Frank Kirchbach to Goethe's "Prometheus"

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SURNAME Kirchbach, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1912
Place of death Schliersee