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.
literature
- Axel Holck : Kirchbach ['kerKbak], Frank . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 13 : Jernbaneret – Kirkeskat . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1922, p. 919 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Kirchbach, Frank . 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. 348 .
- Hans Ries: illustrations and illustrators of books for children and young people in German-speaking countries 1871–1914. H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-87898-329-8 , p. 635 f.
- Gerhard J. Bellinger , Brigitte Regulator-Bellinger : Schwabings Ainmillerstrasse and its most important residents. A representative example of Munich's city history from 1888 to today. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2003, ISBN 3-8330-0747-8 , pp. 145-146.
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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 |