Heinrich Bürkel

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Heinrich Bürkel, drawn by Johann Fischbach , Rome 1837

Johann Heinrich Bürkel (born May 29, 1802 in Pirmasens , † June 10, 1869 in Munich ) was a German Biedermeier painter . He mainly painted landscapes and depictions of folk life in the Alps .

life and work

Heinrich Bürkel. Graphic by Hermann Scherenberg.
Heinrich Bürkel, around 1860

Heinrich Bürkel initially completed an apprenticeship as a businessman, but at the age of 20 he was drawn away from home. He went to Munich and wanted to be a painter. His works were not recognized by the academy , where landscape and genre painting were only of minor importance. That is why he trained himself by studying and copying the Dutch masters, for which he regularly visited the Schleissheim picture gallery . Heinrich Bürkel specialized in depicting landscapes early on.

From 1824 he was one of the first and most important members of the newly founded Munich Art Association , which enabled him to exhibit his paintings independently of the academy. He traveled to Italy a total of four times (1827, 1830, 1837 and 1853) and sometimes stayed there for up to two years. In between he married Johanna von Hofstetten, the daughter of a government councilor. Through the Münchner Kunstverein he managed to sell numerous works, some as far as North America. In the middle of the 19th century he now also counted Carl Spitzweg and Adalbert Stifter among his friends. In 1858 he was offered honorary membership of the Munich Academy, which had rejected him 30 years ago. Before that, he had already become an honorary member of the Vienna and Dresden art academies.

The highlights of his work were certainly his participation in the world exhibitions in London (1862) and Paris (1867) . Heinrich Bürkel died in his Munich studio in 1869 after a long illness. In total, he created over 1,000 oil paintings, and after his death about 6,000 drawings were found in his estate.

With his wife Bürkel had four children, the sons Heinrich, Ludwig and Karl and the daughter Johanna. The youngest son Karl died in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 , and his eldest son Heinrich, who was named after his father and who worked as a professor of law in Giessen, died in 1876 . The middle son Ludwig (* 1841; † 1903), however, became court secretary to King Ludwig II , who appointed him to the hereditary nobility. The daughter Johanna (* 1846, † 1925), who married a Bavarian officer named Rhomberg, lived the longest. Heinrich Bürkel's grandchildren included the art historian Ludwig von Bürkel , known as Luigi, and the diplomat Edmund Rhomberg .

Grave of Heinrich Bürkel on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

tomb

The tomb of Henry Bürkel is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 38 - Series 1 - Place 11/12) Location . The sculptor Anselm Sickinger designed the tomb .

Works (selection)

Beggar attack at the Italian post office
Cattle trough on the Via Appia Antiqua
  • Returning from the Hunt , 1823, oil on canvas, 80.2 × 60.5 cm, Munich private collection
  • Distant view of Rome with the Baths of Caracalla in the foreground , 1829, oil on paper, 23.7 × 57.4 cm, National Gallery , London
  • Rastende Treidler , 1829, oil on canvas, 30 × 58 cm, Alte Nationalgalerie , Berlin
  • Tyrolean Kirmes , 1830, oil on canvas, 48 ​​× 63 cm, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
  • Trattoria in front of the Porta San Sebastiano in front of Rome , around 1830/32, oil on paper mounted on canvas, 41 × 59.5 cm, Neue Pinakothek , Munich
  • Scene in front of the Temple of Vesta , 1831, oil on canvas, private property
  • Italian Landscape , around 1832, oil on cardboard, 27 × 36 cm, Von der Heydt-Museum , Wuppertal
  • Tiber bridge with old fort , around 1832, oil on cardboard, 22.5 × 29.5 cm, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
  • Roman landscape with travelers in front of a restaurant , Riga Stock Exchange Art Museum , Riga
  • Roman peasants in front of a locanda , 1835, oil on canvas, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
  • Winter Landscape with Homestead and Figure Staffage , 1836, oil on canvas, 28 × 23 cm
  • Shepherd in the Roman Campagna , 1837, oil on canvas, 48.3 × 67.7 cm, Neue Pinakothek, Munich
  • Rain showers in Partenkirchen , 1838, oil on canvas, 44.5 × 61 cm, Neue Pinakothek, Munich
  • Haymaking , 1839, oil on canvas, Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg
  • Campagna landscape with aqueducts , around 1839, oil on canvas, Forum Alte Post , Pirmasens
  • Amalfi (seen from a rock cave) , oil on canvas, 36 × 38 cm, Forum Alte Post, Pirmasens
  • Bull and Painter , Forum Alte Post, Pirmasens
  • St. Petersfriedhof in Winter , oil on canvas, 42.8 × 43.8 cm, Residenzgalerie Salzburg
  • An Osteria near Rome , around 1845, oil on canvas, 58.8 cm × 87.5 cm, Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg
  • Winter in Ramsau , around 1847/50, oil on canvas, 30 × 44 cm
  • Farm with well , around 1850, oil on canvas, 44.5 × 49.5 cm, private property
  • Hunters in front of a rock entrance in the mountains , around 1850, oil on canvas, 43.8 cm × 64.9 cm, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
  • The Removal of the Fallen Tree (or The Accident ), ca 1850, oil on canvas, 36.5 × 46 cm, Milwaukee Art Museum , Milwaukee
  • Rain showers in Garmisch , 1850–1852, oil on panel, private property
  • The Robbery , c. 1853, oil on canvas, 39.4 x 46.4 cm, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
  • Fighting in front of an inn , between 1855 and 1860, oil on canvas, 30.5 × 42.2 cm
  • Herd of horses in the Pussta / catching horses in the Puszta , around 1861/63, oil on canvas, 40 × 54 cm, Forum Alte Post, Pirmasens
  • Winter village. Grain is threshed in the barn , around 1865, oil on cardboard, 29 × 37.5 cm
  • Tavern in the mountains, around 1855/57, oil on canvas, 39.5 × 58 cm, private property

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1969: Heinrich Bürkel on the 100th anniversary of his death. Paintings and graphics , Museum Pfalzgalerie , Kaiserslautern , June 14 - August 3, 1969
  • 2002: Heinrich Bürkel - between Munich and Rome , Alte Post, Pirmasens, May 5 to June 29, 2002
  • 2003: Angular happiness and longing for the world. The painter friends Heinrich Bürkel and Carl Spitzweg , City Museum Simeonstift Trier , February 9 to April 27, 2003
  • Since 2014: Heinrich Bürkel - Landpartie (permanent exhibition) , Forum Alte Post, Pirmasens, since April 13, 2014
  • 2016: Heinrich Bürkel and Johann Adam Klein - an encounter , Forum Alte Post, Pirmasens, March 18, 2016 to June 12, 2016

The city of Pirmasens has the largest coherent collection of works by the painter, this was shown in the Bürkelgalerie in the old town hall until 2014 , since then it has been a permanent exhibition in the Forum Alte Post.

Honors

In his hometown of Pirmasens, both the Maler-Bürkel-Straße and a square in the north of the Winzler district were named after him. A street in the Solln district of Munich was also dedicated to him.

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Bürkel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Denk, John Ziesemer: "Art and Memoria, The Old Southern Cemetery in Munich" (2014), Grabstätte 177 ", p. 483 f
  2. ↑ http://www.volksfreund.de/nachrichten/aktion/archiv/archiv/wochenendjournal/Wochenendjournal-Winkelglueck-und-Weltensehnsucht;art944,51485 , accessed on November 15, 2016 at 3:32 p.m.
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on November 15, 2016 at 3:24 p.m. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pirmasenser-zeitung.de
  4. ↑ http://kulturland.rlp.de/de/general-storage/veranstaltungen/?tx_nidagveranstaltungen_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=127915 , accessed on November 15, 2016 at 3:43 p.m.
personal data
SURNAME Bürkel, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Biedermeier painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirmasens
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1869
Place of death Munich