Heinrich Christoph Kolbe

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Heinrich Christoph Kolbe , painting by Johann Peter Krafft

Heinrich Christoph Kolbe , also Heinrich Christian Kolbe (born April 2, 1771 in Düsseldorf , † January 16, 1836 ibid), was a German history and portrait painter of Classicism and Biedermeier .

Life

Kolbe, son of the Berlin-born Düsseldorf silver worker Johann Dietrich Kolbe (1712 and 1713–1776) and his wife Anna Gertrud, née Weymar (1730–1804), received his first artistic training at the "old" Düsseldorf Academy with Johann Peter Langer . At the same time he worked in Langer's wallpaper factory. In 1801, when the wallpaper factory was relocated to Paris because of its mainly French sales market on the left of the Rhine , he also went there for a ten-year study visit, where he studied painting with François-André Vincent at the École des Beaux-Arts . In 1806 he married Marie Therèse Françoise, née Planchon (1785 or 1786–1870). The couple had two children, their son Étienne Maria (1809–1834, also a painter) and their daughter Christine Louise (1807–1855). He lived in the circle of Friedrich Schlegel and worked on his magazine " Europa ". He later worked in François Gérard's studio . In spring 1811 he returned to Düsseldorf and moved into the maternal house in Carlstadt . Now he became a preferred portrait painter in the Rhineland. Around 60 portraits were made in the cities of Barmen and Elberfeld alone . The portraits show members of the entrepreneurial upper class and give an indication of the importance of Wuppertal as a sales market and livelihood for the Düsseldorf painters of the early 19th century. In the years 1818 to 1820 he went to Paris again. A little later he presented one of his pictures, which he had exhibited in the Salon de Paris , at an art exhibition in Lille and received a silver medal for it. In Weimar he portrayed Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Grand Duke Carl August twice each. Two portraits of the Grand Duke's lover, Caroline Jagemann, were also created .

From 1822 Kolbe was a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (plaster class, 2nd painting class). After a long argument with the new director Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow , he was given leave of absence in 1832, initially only for two years with halved salary, then extended several times. Kolbe is considered to be a representative of a factual approach to portraits based on French classicism , which opposed the idealistic conception of art by Schadow, and as a pioneer of realism in Düsseldorf art. Düsseldorf artists who continued Kolbe's realistic portrait tradition were his son Étienne and the painter Peter Schwingen .

Kolbe died in Düsseldorf in 1836 after a long illness.

Works (selection)

Student (selection)

literature

  • Kolbe, Heinrich Christoph . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 781.
  • Wolfgang Hütt : The Kolbe affair . In: Wolfgang Hütt: The influence of the Prussian state on the development of content and form in the visual arts of the 19th century . VEB Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1955.
  • Hackmann, Lisa: Kolbe, Heinrich Christoph , in: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 149–152.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Heidermann: We have the pictures! Heinrich Christoph Kolbe in Wuppertal ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. . Article in the magazine Geschichte im Wuppertal , vol. 16, pp. 31-55, published on the portal bgv-wuppertal.de (PDF file; 1.1 MB), accessed on August 18, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bgv-wuppertal.de
  2. ↑ Horst Heidermann: Heinrich Christoph Kolbe and the portrait painters of the Wuppertal bourgeoisie ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article in the magazine Geschichte im Wuppertal , vol. 18, pp. 87-96, published on the portal bgv-wuppertal.de (PDF file; 418 kB), accessed on August 18, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bgv-wuppertal.de
  3. ^ Wolfgang Hütt : Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1869 . VEB EA Seemann Buch- und Kunstverlag, Leipzig 1984, p. 53, 94 f.
  4. ↑ Half-length portrait as a preliminary study for a full- length portrait completed in 1826, which depicts Goethe as an artist in front of Vesuvius and is now in the Thuringian university and state library - cf. Goethe as a poet and artist in front of Vesuvius , data sheet in the archiv.thulb.uni-jena.de portal , accessed on October 1, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kolbe, Heinrich Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolbe, Heinrich Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1836
Place of death Dusseldorf