Heinrich Brückner (painter)

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Grave of the Brückner family in the Coburg cemetery
Memorial plaque of the Brückner family of artists at Ketschengasse 14 in Coburg
Heinrich Brückner: Hochalm in Central Switzerland

Heinrich Karl Brückner (born July 11, 1805 in Coburg ; † June 24, 1892 there ) was a German theater and landscape painter.

Life

Heinrich Brückner came from a family of painters and cloth masters who immigrated from Salzburg to Coburg around 1700.

Brückner studied from October 16, 1826 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich . From 1834 he worked at the Coburg court theater as a stage painter, theater machinist and also as a choir singer. In 1854 he created the picturesque design of the " Tannhäuser " performance, which took place in Coburg and Gotha . He was appointed court theater painter.

In addition to his work at the court theater, he dealt with landscape painting. The British Royal Collection contains 44 watercolors painted by him in 1844/45 with views of castles in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha from the possession of Queen Victoria .

His two sons Max (1836–1919) and Gotthold (1844–1892) continued the family tradition as a theater painter.

literature

  • Ludwig Tavernier: Brückner, Heinrich Karl . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 14, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22754-X , p. 471.
  • Fabian Kern: Just seen. Bravo, Bravissimo. The Brückner family of theater painters from Coburg and their relationships with the Bayreuth Festival. Society for Theater History, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-924955-18-2 , esp.p. 19ff.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Brückner  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation Book Academy Munich .
  2. ^ Delia Millar: The Victorian Watercolors in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen . Wilson, London 1995, ISBN 0-85667-436-2 , Vol. 1, pp. 135-139.
personal data
SURNAME Brückner, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brückner, Heinrich Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1892
Place of death Coburg