Franz Kobell

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Franz Innocenz Josef Kobell (born November 23, 1749 in Mannheim ; † January 14, 1822 in Munich ) was a painter , etcher and draftsman from the Kobell family of artists .

Life

After completing a commercial apprenticeship in Mainz , Kobell returned to Mannheim in 1762 and was encouraged by his older brother Ferdinand Kobell to devote himself to artistic activity. He completed his training at the Mannheim drawing academy , then received a pension from Karl Theodor von der Pfalz , which enabled him to study in Italy from 1779 to 1784, and frequented Rome with the painter Friedrich Müller and the sculptor Alexander Trippel . He was also in contact with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , to whom he gave tips on how to create landscape drawings and from whom he received an order for several drawings that are now in the Weimar Graphic Collections . Kobell returned to Germany in 1784 and, like his brother Ferdinand, settled in Munich in 1785 , where the electoral court had relocated. Karl Theodor appointed him court painter.

Based on Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, Kobell painted ideal landscapes. However, only a few oil paintings by him have survived. In addition to a few etchings, his work, known today, consists of thousands of landscape and architectural pen and brush drawings. Particularly noteworthy are his monochrome brush drawings with views of the Munich area, made since around 1800, in which Kobell made abstractions of natural forms from time, as the exhibitions of 1997 and 2005 showed.

literature

  • Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart :  Kobell, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 355 f.
  • Heidi Praël-Himmer:  Kobell, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 237 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Franz Kobell. A landscape draftsman around 1800. Watercolors, drawings, etchings. Exhibition catalog Städtische Galerie Traunstein / Kunstverein Reutlingen. Edited by Thomas Herbig. Traunstein: Edition Idea 1997.
  • Gerhard Kölsch: "You pick up the rules of the arts (...) Have, oh friend, only genius!" On six little-known drawings by Friedrich Müller, named painter Müller (1749-1825) and Franz Kobell (1749-1822) in the Aschaffenburg Castle Museum, in: Aschaffenburger Jahrbuch 21 (2001), pp. 275-293.
  • Franz Kobell. A draftsman between idyll and realism. Exhibition catalog State Graphic Collection Munich . Munich 2005.

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personal data
SURNAME Kobell, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kobell, Franz Innocenz Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Painter, etcher and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1822
Place of death Munich