Friedrich Simmler

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Friedrich Karl (Carl) Joseph Simmler (born March 4, 1801 in Hanau , Landgraviate Hessen-Kassel ; † November 2, 1872 in Aschaffenburg , Kingdom of Bavaria ) was a German landscape , portrait and animal painter from the Munich and Düsseldorf Schools .

Life

At the age of 16, Simmler began a commercial apprenticeship in Mainz . At the same time he took lessons from the landscape painters Johann Kaspar Schneider and Louis Catoir (1792–1841). On November 4, 1822, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the field of painting. Until October 1823, Wilhelm von Kobell , Johann Peter von Langer and Max Josef Wagenbauer were his teachers. In winter 1823/1824 he studied at the Academy in Vienna , where he after a stay in Geisenheim and Munich returned in the spring of 1825 and where he remained until the spring of the 1827th In 1827/1828 he stayed in Italy . He stayed in Rome until the end of June 1828 . He then lived in Geisenheim until 1832. He then lived in Düsseldorf until 1835 , was a member of the Malkasten artists' association and incorporated the influences of the Düsseldorf School of Painting into his artistic work. With his colleagues Andreas Achenbach , Caspar Scheuren and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , he carried out joint work, in which he took over the animal decorations. Simmler also gave private lessons there. From 1835 to 1862 he took up residence again in Geisenheim, where his son Wilhelm († 1923) was born in 1840 , who was also to become a painter. Three other children embarked on artistic careers: Joseph Simmler (1842–1899), illustrator, Franz Joseph Simmler (1846–1926), carver, and Antonia Simmler (1852–1923), illustrator. In 1862 Simmler moved to Aschaffenburg, where he died ten years later.

Works (selection)

Mountain landscape with herd of cattle at a ford , around 1840, Neue Pinakothek Munich

In addition to oil paintings, Simmler created copperplate engravings, lithographs and watercolors. His works, often pastoral landscapes, were seen as belonging to the Düsseldorf School of Painting in the middle of the 19th century and accordingly exhibited in the Düsseldorf Gallery in New York.

  • Midday rest on Lake Starhemberger See , 1833
  • Shepherd boy with horned and woolly cattle , 1834
  • Dutch dairy farm , 1834
  • Return of the Herd , 1834
  • Farm in the morning , 1834
  • Pasture , 1834
  • Dutch dairy farm with bull and cows , 1834
  • Bull with two sheep , 1834
  • Cow in front of the farmhouse , 1834
  • The Spring (Cattle) , 1835
  • Group of Animals on the Way , 1835
  • Dutch forest , 1835
  • Dutch village on the canal , 1835
  • Cows in the pasture during a rising thunderstorm , 1835
  • Meadow with grazing cattle , 1838
  • Midday rest , 1838
  • Flock of sheep returning home during a thunderstorm , 1858

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 00787 Friedrich Simmler , entry in matriculation book 1 of the Art Academy Munich, accessed on the portal matrikel.adbk.de on June 30, 2016
  2. ↑ Inventory list , website in the portal malkasten.org , accessed on October 7, 2018
  3. ↑ Jacob Nöggerath (Ed.): Charitable and entertaining Rheinische Provinzial-Blätter . Third volume, seventh issue, Cologne 1835, p. 198, no. 117 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ Friedrich Müller, Karl Klunzinger, Adolf Seubert : Latest artist lexicon. The artists of all times and peoples . Verlag von Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1864, Volume III, p. 544 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Simmler, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simmler, Friedrich Karl Joseph; Simmler, Friedrich Carl Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape, portrait and animal painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau , Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1872
Place of death Aschaffenburg , Kingdom of Bavaria