Heinrich Heinlein

Wilhelm von Kaulbach : portrait of the painter Heinrich Heinlein

Heinrich Heinlein: Landscape near Hohenschwangau with the Swan Lake , 1839

Heinrich Heinlein (born December 3, 1803 in Weilburg , † December 8, 1885 in Munich ) was a German painter .

Life

Heinlein came from a Mannheim confectioner family. His father was employed as a pastry chef at the court of the Prince of Nassau-Weilburg. His mother (née Riedel) was the daughter of a master builder Johann Gottlieb Riedel from Bayreuth. She was the sister of Heinrich August, Heinrich Karl and Karl Christian Riedel and worked as a pastel and portrait painter. She was the aunt of Eduard and August Riedel .

Heinlein first attended a grammar school and was destined for a career as a businessman. He felt more drawn to art and studied architecture in Mannheim before moving to Munich in 1822 to continue his education at the academy and from 1823 to actively devote himself to the study of landscape painting . In 1825 he traveled to Switzerland , Tyrol , Northern Italy and Vienna . In 1830 he settled again in Munich, where from then on he cultivated landscape painting in the romantic sense. He drew his motifs preferably from the German and Austrian Alps , with an emphasis on greatness of character. He particularly valued the dark Upper Gosau Lake, surrounded by rugged cliffs .

He was an honorary member of the Munich and Vienna Academy of the Arts. Heinlein was married and had several children.

It was so popular during the imperial era that the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie dedicated four pages to it.

tomb

Heinrich Heinlein's grave was in the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich (Gräberfeld 15, Row 1, Platz 17/18).

literature

Heinlein, Heinrich. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, pp. 485-486 ( archive.org ).
Hyacinth Holland : Heinlein, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 143-147.
Heinlein, Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 297 .

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Heinlein - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Jochen Schmidt-Liebich: Riedel, NN, m. Heinlein . In: Lexicon of Women Artists 1700–1900: Germany, Austria, Switzerland . KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11694-2 , p. 388 .
↑ Heinlein, Heinrich. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, pp. 485-486 ( archive.org ).

personal data
SURNAME	Heinlein, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	December 3, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weilburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 8, 1885
Place of death	Munich

[1] Jochen Schmidt-Liebich: Riedel, NN, m. Heinlein . In: Lexicon of Women Artists 1700–1900: Germany, Austria, Switzerland . KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11694-2 , p. 388 .

[2] Heinlein, Heinrich. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, pp. 485-486 ( archive.org ).