Franz Kruger

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Self portrait
Franz Krüger: Riding out of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (later Kaiser Wilhelm I ) accompanied by the painter, 1836
Franz Krüger: Parade on Opernplatz in Berlin, 1824-1830
WC Benecke with family
Two riders galloping, 1851, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg

Franz Krüger (born September 10, 1797 in Großbadegast , Anhalt , † January 21, 1857 in Berlin ), known as horse Krüger , was a German animal painter , portraitist and lithographer .

He was best known for his folk and true-to-life portraits and horse pictures, which made him one of the most important military and portrait painters in Berlin. His depictions of military parades contain hundreds of portraits, often showing large sections of the city's upper class.

Friedrich Wilhelm IV. In his study , oil painting, Berlin 1846

Life

Krüger was born the son of a Anhalt civil servant and came into contact with animal painting at an early age through the ornithologist Johann Friedrich Naumann from the neighboring village of Ziebigk . During his school days in Dessau he got to know the landscape painter Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (called Eichen-Kolbe ). Krüger studied from 1812 to 1813 at the Berlin Academy of the Arts and then trained himself further by drawing from nature, especially in the royal Prussian stables . In 1818 his military and hunting paintings were exhibited in the academy for the first time. Portrait commissions from Prince August of Prussia (a son of Ferdinand of Prussia ) and Count Neidhardt von Gneisenau established his reputation as a portraitist. He subsequently portrayed a number of other members of the royal family. In 1825 he was appointed royal professor and a full member of the academy.

Several trips followed in 1836, 1845, 1847 and 1850/51 to the Russian Tsar's court in Saint Petersburg and to the courts of Hanover in 1839/40 and Schwerin in 1854. During a two-week study trip to Paris , he met Eugène Delacroix in 1846 . During the March Revolution in 1848 he retired to Dessau . In 1855 he took part in the Paris World Exhibition .

Since 1825 he was married to the artist Johanna Eunicke and lived at Behrenstrasse  63 in Berlin-Friedrichstadt . His wife died in 1856, and he himself died the following year of complications from a facial rose . Krüger was buried in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery in Berlin.

One of Kruger’s pupils was the animal painter Carl Steffeck , other pupils were Hermann Gemmel and Theodor Schloepke .

Works

Honors

tomb

Krüger has a grave of honor for the city of Berlin in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin-Mitte.

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Krüger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Behrenstrasse 63 . In: General housing indicator for Berlin, Charlottenburg and its surroundings , 1850, part 2, p. 10.
  2. ↑ A permanent exhibition of Krüger's works can be found in the Historisches Museum Köthen.
  3. ^ Margarete Cohn: Franz Krüger. Life and works. Theodor Schatzky GmbH, Breslau 1909, p. 92.
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horse Kruger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animal painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Grand bathers , Anhalt
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1857
Place of death Berlin