Friedrich Wilhelm Pfeiffer
Friedrich Wilhelm Pfeiffer (born January 15, 1822 in Wolfenbüttel , † November 28, 1891 in Munich ) was a German painter.
life and work
Friedrich was the third of four children of a master blacksmith from Wolfenbüttel. From 1839 he studied at the Braunschweiger Collegium Carolinum in the painting school of Hans Heinrich Jürgen Georg Brandes (1803–1868). He specialized in genre and landscape painting. In 1842 the first exhibition took place in the Braunschweig Art Club, where his woodcuts for Johann Sporschil's book “The Thirty Years War”, which appeared in 1855, were shown.
In 1845 he lived in Munich with an artist friend, Emil Schulz (1822–1912), who also came from Wolfenbüttel . He earned his living with landscape studies. In the spring of 1848 he traveled back to Wolfenbüttel via Nuremberg, Coburg, Gotha and a visit from Eisenach and the Wartburg. In 1849/50 he embarked on a study trip lasting more than a year, which took him with Adolf Nickol to Cologne, Antwerp, Paris, Versailles, Brussels, Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, Haarlem and Leiden. In 1853 he moved his permanent residence to Munich and became a full member of the Munich artist society Allotria . From 1856 to 1859 he lived and worked in Schwanthalerstraße 68 / EG. In 1858 he took part in the German and historical art exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace .
Social advancement was underpinned by her marriage to Rosamunde Franziska Thekla von Appell (1824-1859) on August 26, 1857, who, however, died in 1859. A year later he married Amalie Katharina Bernreither (1828–1909) and moved to Schwanthalerstraße 24. The couple had three children.
The final artistic recognition came in 1861 when King Ludwig I bought the painting “The Scarecrow” for the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.
In 1887 he illustrated Wilhelm Hey's “Fables for Children” . For Johanna Spyri in 1880 he illustrated the volumes of stories "Heimatlos", "Aus Nah und Fern" and "Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre" for the first time. In 1881, Pfeiffer received permission from Duke Karl Theodor in Bavaria to study pictures in his Tegernsee Castle . In 1885, shortly before his death, King Ludwig II. Pfeiffer's pension increased from January 1, 1886 from 450 to 630 marks.
tomb
The tomb of William Pfeiffer is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 8 - Series 9 - 56th) Location .
The horse gallery of King Ludwig II.
Friedrich Wilhelm Pfeiffer became famous for the horse gallery of King Ludwig II of Bavaria . There are 26 paintings, which are shown as a permanent exhibition in the Marstallmuseum at Nymphenburg Palace . They are primarily horse portraits, as they were common in England's aristocratic circles. The picture backgrounds show views of Bavarian mountain regions and the pre-alpine landscape. Only a few pictures show Munich scenery. The Bavarian king was particularly interested in this assignment because, like Empress Elisabeth of Austria, he was an enthusiastic rider and had a special relationship with his personal “favorite riding horses”. The animals are represented in a virtuoso manner and their race and temperament were selected to meet the demands of Ludwig II.
Pfeiffer received the commission for the horse portraits from Oberststallmeister Maximilian Karl Theodor von Holnstein in September 1866. After two years of preliminary studies in the royal stables, including the Munich Residence , he received the permission in 1868 to explore the landscape backgrounds around the royal mountain houses on the often arduous journeys Herzogstand , the Hochkopf , the Grammersberg, the Plansee and the Vorderriß to visit and visit. 1869 followed the Ammer Mountains and Linderhof , 1871, the "Mountain-houses in the Soiern and on Schachen ". Work on the horse gallery was not completed until the summer of 1879. Another series of horse portraits was also created on the mediation of Maximilian Karl Theodor von Holnstein in the royal court stud Rohrenfeld near Neuburg an der Donau. They were created between 1872 and 1881.
literature
- Friedrich Pecht: History of Munich Art in the Nineteenth Century. Munich, 1888
- Thieme / Becker Artist Lexicon, Vol. 26, Leipzig, 1932
- Hans Rall, Michael Petzet: King Ludwig II. Reality and riddle. With a comprehensive overview of the king's stays in the residences, castles and mountain houses of Freitz Merta. Munich and Zurich, 1986
- Elmar D. Schmid, Friedrich Wilhelm Pfeiffer: painter of the riding horses of King Ludwig II, Dachau, 1888.
- Heidi C. Ebertshauser: Painting in the 19th Century. Munich School. Munich, 1979
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfeiffer, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolfenbüttel |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1891 |
| Place of death | Munich |