Franz Peter Kymli

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Franz Peter Joseph Kymli (* 1748 in Mannheim , † around 1813 in Paris ) was a German painter.

Life

Franz Peter Joseph Kymli was trained at the drawing academy in Mannheim , where he received a gold medal in 1772. Karl Theodor von der Pfalz granted him a scholarship in 1775 to continue his studies in Paris. Just one year later, Kymli was court painter and agent of the Elector and probably responsible for buying pictures for the Mannheim gallery. In 1776 he exhibited at the Salon du Colisée, and from 1779 to 1787 at the Salon de la Correspondance. In 1789 he became a legation counselor under the ambassador Karl von Sickingen , ten years later Max IV Joseph dismissed him from the service of the elector and withdrew his salary. Kymli apparently stayed in Paris, where he lived in the Faubourg Saint-Germain . He was married to a daughter of Jacques Louis David , maintained contacts with Johann Georg Wille and was the teacher of Carl Christian Kanz and Johann Friedrich Müller , among others .

In February 1813, apparently after Kymli had died, his art collection was auctioned.

Works

Kymli portrayed well-known personalities such as Joseph II , but also simple people from the population. A reference to Balthasar Denner's technique, whose works he knew from Mannheim, is recognizable, but Kymli is considered more progressive than this, because he has succeeded in "presenting the dignity of simple people of the lower class simply and seriously", and he is the bourgeois portrait of the supposed to have anticipated early realism.

Web links

Commons : Franz Peter Joseph Kymli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Andresen, Life and Works of the Two Engravers Johann Gotthard von Müller and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Müller, in: Archive for the arts of drawing with special reference to the art of engraving and woodcutting and their history, ed. by Dr. Robert Naumann, 11th year, 1st issue, Leipzig 1865, pp. 1–41, here p. 28.
  2. ^ Hans Ries:  Kymli, Franz Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 356 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Kymli, Franz Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kymli, Franz Peter Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH around 1813
Place of death Paris