Friedrich Emil Klein
Friedrich Emil Klein (born March 3, 1841 in Elberfeld , † December 1, 1921 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Klein received his first drawing and painting lessons from his father, an important draftsman. From 1857 to 1860 he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Karl Mueller and Karl Ferdinand Sohn his most important teacher. In 1860 he went to Antwerp . In 1862 he became a student of Julius Schrader's studio in Berlin . In 1864 he married in Dortmund the poet Friederika Wilhelmina Ada Diepold (* 1844), daughter of the copper mine owner Carl Theodor von Diepold (1810-1862) and his wife Susanne Cornelia Maria, born of Beaufort (* 1807). The couple had five sons and three daughters, among them the later painters Leo , Julian and Maximilian (Max) Klein von Diepold and the later art writer Rudolf Klein-Diepold , the husband of the painter Julie Wolfthorn . In the 1860s the family lived in Cologne . In 1872 she moved to Kassel - Wilhelmshöhe . In 1873/1874 Klein and his family settled permanently in Düsseldorf, where he lived at Schützenstrasse 53 in 1889. In the 1880s (1881, 1886) he received orders from Prince Georg zu Solms-Braunfels . For this he stayed in Braunfels .
Works (selection)
- Portrait of a Lady with a Falcon , 1876
- Late summer forest , 1890
- Allegory of Summer , 1891
- Bismarck proclaims the Socialist Law , 1909, Otto von Bismarck Foundation
- Festive company in Rococo costumes on a boat in autumnal parkland , gouache, 1909
- Scene from the Franco-Prussian War
- Cavalry raid
- The Hundred Days Emperor (Emperor Friedrich III on horseback)
- Huns train
literature
- Friedrich Jansa (ed.): German visual artists in words and pictures. Leipzig 1912, p. 325.
- Friedrich Emil Klein . 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. 438 .
Web links
- Friedrich Emil Klein , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Friedrich Emil Klein , Auction Results on artnet .de
- Letter from Friedrich Emil Klein to Hermann Sudermann , March 8, 1900, manuscript department of the German Literature Archive in Marbach
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry Klein, Friedrich Emil in: Künstlerindex Auktionshaus Michael Zeller: Letter K , website in the zeller.de portal , accessed on May 26, 2016
- ↑ Angelika Lasius: Julian Klein von Diepold. Biography ( ostfriesenelandschaft.de PDF), accessed on May 26, 2016.
- ^ Entry by Friedrich Emil Klein. In: Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office Düsseldorf, 1889 , accessed on May 26, 2016.
- ^ Friedrich Jansa (ed.): German visual artists in words and pictures. Leipzig 1912, p. 325.
- ↑ Volker Ullrich : Otto von Bismarck . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1998, p. 107
- ↑ Hunnenzug , lithograph after the painting by Friedrich Emil Klein, 1890, data sheet on the portal akg-images.de , accessed on May 26, 2016th
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klein, Friedrich Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter of the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1, 1921 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |