Friedrich August von Kaulbach

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Friedrich August von Kaulbach
Study for a portrait of the singer Geraldine Farrar

Friedrich August Christian Siegmund Kaulbach , since 1884 Knight of Kaulbach , also Fritz August von Kaulbach, (born June 2, 1850 in Munich , † January 26, 1920 in Ohlstadt near Murnau am Staffelsee ) was a German painter . He was the son of the history painter Friedrich Kaulbach and is famous for his decorative, enthusiastic portraits of primarily female society in the French style of the 19th century .

Life

Children's Carnival , 1888

Friedrich August von Kaulbach studied at the royal arts and crafts school in Nuremberg (with August von Kreling and Karl Raupp ) and then with his father Friedrich Kaulbach . In 1871 he moved to Munich . He trained in painting at the Munich Academy with Wilhelm von Diez and became a painting teacher there himself in 1883. Along with Franz von Lenbach and Franz von Stuck, he was one of the so-called Munich painter princes and became one of the best-paid German portrait painters. His portraits were mostly commissioned work, the portrayed almost exclusively members of the highest German and American social circles. His picture Children's Carnival , which shows the five children of the Pringsheim family , shows Katia Mann (far left) as a child; Thomas Mann had a reproduction of the picture hanging in his room long before he met his future wife.

Stays in Paris followed . In 1886 he was appointed director of the Munich Academy. He was also a member of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin . His daughter Hedda was married to the sculptor Toni Stadler , his daughter Mathilde married the painter Max Beckmann in 1925 .

In 1929, Kaulbach's widow had the Kaulbach art collection auctioned by the Munich branch of the renowned art dealer Hugo Helbing in the Villa Kaulbach in Munich. August Liebmann Mayer wrote the foreword to the auction catalog .

His siblings include the painter Sigmund Kaulbach (1854-1894), and his half-siblings include the painter Anton Kaulbach , the painter Antonie Kaulbach and the writer Isidore Kaulbach .

Kaulbach Villa Munich

Kaulbach Villa in Munich

In 1888, based on ideas from Friedrich August von Kaulbach, it was near the English Garden in Munich in Kaulbachstrasse. Villa built by Gabriel von Seidl completed. Like Villa Lenbach, which Seidl started in the same year, this villa is based on the Italian Renaissance.

Kaulbach Villa Ohlstadt

Atelier in Ohlstadt

In 1893 the painter built the Kaulbach Villa in Ohlstadt, Upper Bavaria, which served him as a second summer residence until his death. Since July 1997 it has been a museum in which around 30 paintings and 25 drawings by Kaulbach are shown. The studio and a study room are accessible and in their original condition.

Kaulbach and the "Allotria"

Sketch by Kaulbach from the "Lenbachiade". From left to right at a meeting of the Allotria : Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Gustav Laeverenz , Lorenz Gedon , Gustav Majer (“Schwabenmajer”), Anton Seitz , Franz von Lenbach , Bruno Piglhein , Max Freiherr von Baligand , Gotthardt Kuehl

Kaulbach documented the artistic scene of his time with a large number of caricatures. He found prominent motifs in particular among the members of the artist society Allotria , which was founded by Franz von Lenbach as a counterforce to "established" artists in Munich. Franz von Lenbach himself quickly established himself, which inspired Kaulbach and the "Schwabenmajer" (Gustav Majer) to friendly mockery in a "Lenbachiade".

literature

  • Georg Habich : Friedrich August von Kaulbach . In: Art for everyone: painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture . 15th year (1899–1900), volume 1 and volume 2. F. Bruckmann, Munich 1900, p. 1-10, 25-35 ( uni-heidelberg.de , uni-heidelberg.de ).
  • Kaulbach, Friedrich August von . 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. 20-22 .
  • Evelyn Lehmann, Elke Riemer: The Kaulbachs. A family of artists from Arolsen. Waldeck Historical Society, Arolsen 1978.
  • Brigitte Salmen (Ed.): "I can really paint very well". Friedrich August von Kaulbach - Max Beckmann. Murnau 2002.
  • Birgit Jooss : “Farmer's son who thrived to be the prince of art”: the staging strategies of the artist princes in historicism. In: Plurale. Magazine for thought versions. Book 5: Profit. Berlin 2005, pp. 196–228 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
  • Klaus Zimmermanns:  Kaulbach, Friedrich August Ritter von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , pp. 354-356 ( digitized version ).
  • Klaus Zimmermanns: Friedrich August von Kaulbach: 1850–1920; Monograph and catalog raisonné . Ed .: Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Art History Working Group (=  materials on 19th century art . Volume 26 ). Prestel, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7913-0457-7 .

Web links

Commons : Friedrich August von Kaulbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Kaulbach, Friedrich August von; Period: 1883-1891. In: Matriculation database. Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on October 22, 2019 .