Heinrich Funk (painter)

Landscape in Tyrol at Dusk , 1847, oil on canvas

Heinrich Funk (born December 12, 1807 in Herford , † November 22, 1877 in Stuttgart ) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Funk was the son of a painter who called himself “painter” and gave private lessons in drawing. He could only support his family with hardship. His father also gave his son Heinrich his first painting lessons. From 1829 Funk attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he devoted himself to landscape painting under Carl Friedrich Lessing and Wilhelm Schirmer . From 1831 he exhibited in Düsseldorf, copies of his motif Der Klosterhof acquired in 1832 by the Düsseldorf government councilor Heinrich Ferdinand Philipp von Sybel and Prince Friedrich of Prussia . In 1836 he moved to Frankfurt am Main . In 1854, Funk took over a professorship for landscape painting at the Royal Art School in Stuttgart as the successor to Gottlob Friedrich Steinkopf . Here he worked as a popular teacher until increasing sickness forced him to resign in the fall of 1876. Funk's pupils included the painters Max Bach , Anton Braith , Gustav Paul Closs (1840–1870), Gustav Conz and Adele Esinger .

Works (selection)

The castle ruins in evening illumination , Alte Nationalgalerie , Berlin
The lower Inntal , Städelsches Kunstinstitut , Frankfurt am Main
The ruin on the lake , Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main
Thunderstorm landscape , Wallraf-Richartz-Museum , Cologne
Eifel area with a rising thunderstorm , Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

literature

Moritz Blanckarts : Funk, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 202.
Funk, Heinrich . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 348.
Ingeborg Richter: “He dedicated his deepest love to both big and small”. Heinrich Funk - life and work . In: Free and Hanseatic City of Herford , ed. Herford Association for Local Studies V., 5: 7-37 (1987).
Martina Wirsig: Heinrich Funk. 1807-1877 . Lit, Münster 1987, ISBN 3-88660-333-4 (also dissertation, University of Münster).

Web links

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

Heinrich Funk , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )

Individual evidence

^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 118, No. 46 ( digitized version )
^ Moritz Blanckarts: Funk, Heinrich. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB), Vol. 8, p. 202
↑ Wolfgang Kermer : Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= improved reprint: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Edition Cantz: Stuttgart 1988), o. P. [5].

personal data
SURNAME	Funk, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	December 12, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH	Herford
DATE OF DEATH	November 22, 1877
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 118, No. 46 ( digitized version )

[Blanckarts-2] Moritz Blanckarts: Funk, Heinrich. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB), Vol. 8, p. 202

[3] Wolfgang Kermer : Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= improved reprint: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Edition Cantz: Stuttgart 1988), o. P. [5].