Hans von Kolb

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Hans von Kolb

Hans Kolb , from 1913 by Kolb , (born July 28, 1845 in Ehingen (Danube) , † September 17, 1928 in Überlingen ) was a German painter and graphic artist who worked as a lecturer and later as director of the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts .

life and work

Hans Kolb was born in Ehingen an der Donau in 1845 as the son of the saddler and later knife maker Franz Kolb. The artistic talent in the family was already evident in Kolb's brother Franz Xaver Kolb (1827–1889), who was eighteen years his senior and who later worked primarily as a church painter. The distinct Catholic milieu and the rich ecclesiastical works of art in the hometown evidently shaped the later artistic orientation of the two brothers from an early stage.

Hans Kolb received his artistic training from his brother Franz Xaver in Munich, at the Stuttgart Art School and at the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts . In 1868, his hometown Ehingen appointed the 23-year-old drawing teacher to the municipal advanced training and trade school. The central office for trade and commerce in Stuttgart became aware of the achievements and skills of the young drawing teacher and appointed him to the Stuttgart technical school, in 1881 as a professor at the applied arts school. Kolb's main subject was life drawing and decorative painting. Kolb's particular interest was in ornamentation from all historical epochs and regions of the world, in this area he became a rare expert. He could not gain anything from Art Nouveau within handicrafts.

His artistic field of work was the field of church painting . His strength was the decorative wall painting; he mastered the forms with great certainty, the coloring was not always fully recognized. With his brother Franz Xaver he painted the interiors of the churches in Geislingen , Bartholomä and Bollingen ; independently the parish churches in Sigmaringen, Riedlingen, Villingendorf, Calw, Liebenzell, Alpirsbach, Ringingen and the monastery church Untermarchtal. His most important work was the painting of the parish church in Friedrichshafen in the Renaissance style. Kolb not only worked decorative, but also created depictions of people, such as Saint Martin at the cemetery chapel in Ehingen.

One of his favorite activities was the uncovering and restoration of whitewashed medieval and early modern wall paintings, such as B. in the monastery church of Alpirsbach, the parish church of Schützingen and the St. George chapel in Friedrichshafen. The journals Archive for Christian Art, Organ of the Rottenburger Diözesan-Kunstverein and the Protestant Christian Art Journal paid tribute to Kolb's services to church painting and painting restoration several times.

Kolb also worked as a writer. In 1882 he published the portfolio of models for ornament drawing, which formed a basis for school drawing lessons. In the work Der Dekoratör, Illustrirte Kunstgewerbliche Zeitschrift für Interior Decoration (Verlag Alexander Koch, Darmstadt, 1st year 1890 to 10th year 1899), Kolb created templates for decorative painters together with Otto Seubert . His most important work, published since 1889, was stained glass from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance with exclusively graphic illustrations. From 1897, together with Otto Vorländer and Richard Borrmann, he published recordings of medieval wall and ceiling paintings in Germany , also only with graphic illustrations. Kolb was a member of the Munich Society for Christian Art and had a creative role in its magazine Die christliche Kunst . Small essays by him and reproductions of his works have appeared in many magazines.

From 1892, Hans Kolb was the successor of Christian Friedrich von Leins, initially provisional director and from 1896 full-time director of the Royal School of Applied Arts on Untere Königstrasse. This was founded in 1869 and represents one of several predecessor institutions of today's State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . Kolb was also subordinate to the Royal Arts and Crafts teaching and experimental workshop founded in 1901, which was organizationally linked to the Royal School of Applied Arts , although this was initially under Franz August Otto Krüger and from 1903 had its own board of directors with Bernhard Pankok . The latter was housed in the former penitentiary house in the west of Stuttgart and was intended to give the arts and crafts school, which stagnated in copying historical models, a new, practical orientation.

Kolb was married, his daughter married Reginald Schinzinger , who taught as a lecturer at the Hohenheim Agricultural University . After his retirement in 1913, Kolb retired to Überlingen on Lake Constance, where he died in 1928 and was also buried.

As a teacher, painter and scientist, Kolb was popular with students, colleagues and even the royal family. An eloquent testimony to this is provided by a “memorial sheet”, which Bernhard Pankok, Kolb's successor as director of the School of Applied Arts, which had been housed in the new building at Weißenhof since 1913 , to the “long-standing, highly deserved director Professor Hans von Kolb in gratitude and admiration with best wishes “Dedicated to his seventieth birthday on July 28, 1915. The precious document, designed and produced in the graphic workshops of the School of Applied Arts, directed by Johann Vincenz Cissarz , came into the collection of the Stuttgart Academy in 1985 through the mediation of the former academy rector Wolfgang Kermer .

Honors

When Kolb retired from his office on June 9, 1913 at the age of 68, after 45 years of service and seventeen years as director of the School of Applied Arts, the Württemberg King Wilhelm II awarded him the Cross of Honor of the Order of the Württemberg Crown and thus raised him in the staff nobility .

In 1920 the Art Association of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart , of which he had been a committee member since 1899 as the successor to Hofbaudirektor Joseph von Egle , made him an honorary member of the association because of his unselfish and tireless activities when he left this position.

On the occasion of his eightieth birthday on July 28, 1924, “the important role the jubilee has played in the art life of the Kingdom of Württemberg and the diocese of Rottenburg during the past half century” was commemorated. His home town of Ehingen granted him honorary citizenship by resolution of the city council on August 17, 1925 . Several years later the city of Ehingen named the Hans-Kolb-Weg in his honor.

plant

Paintings, graphics

  • Banquet with Africans (1872)
  • Landscape near Liebenzell (1890)
  • Goethe in Ellwangen (1896)

Fonts, illustrations

  • (as publisher, together with Ernst Högg): Role models for ornament drawing. A collection of arts and crafts templates for free-hand and technical drawing lessons at real and commercial advanced training schools. (30 color plates) Effenberger, Stuttgart 1883.
  • Stained glass of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Wittwer, Stuttgart 1884 ff. (Issue 1–10, 60 sheets, 60 plates)
  • (as ed., together with Joseph Anton Giefel and Theodor Schön): Family tree of the Württemberg princely house. (in two parts with text booklet and family tree) Effenberger, Stuttgart 1895.
  • (as co-author): Recordings of medieval wall and ceiling paintings in Germany. Wasmuth, Berlin, Volume 1 (1897), Volume 2 (approx. 1928), Part 2 (1906-1911).
  • Education for artistic life and lessons in writing. In: Art and Youth. Henn, Ratingen 1927, Volume 1007, pp. 18-19. ISSN  0451-081X

literature

  • The Christian Art, monthly for all areas of Christian art and art history as well as for the entire art life , sample volume no year, 1st year 1903 to 5th year 1903 (panel volume), 1st year 1904/1905 to 33rd year 1936 / 1937.
  • Wolfgang Kermer : Hans von Kolb, director of the Kgl. Stuttgart School of Applied Arts, 1896–1913. (with a lecture text by Hans von Kolb) (= WerkstattReihe , No. 9.) State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Stuttgart 2000.
  • Anton Nägele: Director Hans Kolb in memory. In: Archive for Christian Art , 43rd year 1928, issue 4, pp. 133-137. ( Digitized version )
  • Gert K. Nagel: Swabian artist lexicon. From the baroque to the present. Verlag Kunst & Antiquitäten, Munich 1986, p. 70. (on Hans and Franz Xaver Kolb)
  • Franz Michael Weber: Ehingen. History of an Upper Swabian Danube town. (Ed. by the city of Ehingen; printing: Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Ulm) Ehingen 1955.

Web links

Commons : Hans von Kolb  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. literature
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer: Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1988. (Improved special print from: Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. A self-portrayal. Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1988.), n. Pag. (6th page of text).
  3. ↑ Nägele 1928, p. 133 (see literature )
  4. ↑ Entry in the Baden-Württemberg State Bibliography , accessed on January 14, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Kolb, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolb, Hans (until 1913)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Ehingen (Danube)
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1928
Place of death Überlingen