Heinrich Reinhard Kröh

Heinrich Reinhard Kröh (born May 7, 1841 in Darmstadt ; † December 14, 1941 there ) was a German painter .

Life

Born in Darmstadt, Heinrich Reinhard Kröh, son of the grand-ducal picture gallery inspector, was artistically gifted and studied painting with August Lucas and Karl Ludwig Seeger at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich after completing compulsory schooling . He also attended Karl Raupp's private painting school there . Returned to Darmstadt in 1866, in 1869 he followed Karl Raupp to the School of Applied Arts in Nuremberg , who had received a professorship there. In 1873 Kröh finally settled in Darmstadt, in the same year he was appointed by Grand Duke Ludwig III. appointed court painter . In addition, Kröh, who was given the character of a professor in 1911, trained a large number of students. He died in December 1941 at the old age of 100 in his hometown Darmstadt.

Heinrich Reinhard Kröh, who worked as a portraitist , copyist and interior painter for the Darmstadt court , also stood out as a landscape painter in particular .

Works (selection)

• Wilhelmine Grand Duchess v. Hessen and near Rhine born Princess v. Baden (1788-1836) / portrait, sitting in an armchair in front of a landscape, the knee slightly turned to the left, looking ahead, oil painting , in the Darmstadt Castle Museum
• Darmstadt, New Palace / study of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig v. Hesse and the Rhine (1868-1937) , interior, in the Darmstadt Castle Museum
• Evening on the Moor in the Isar Valley, oil on canvas, 1912, in the Darmstadt Municipal Art Collection
• Church in Neuenkirchen, private collection, Wiesbaden
• Pfungstadt mill, private collection, Wiesbaden

literature

• Friedrich Kroeh: Heinrich Reinhard Kröh, in: Darmstädter Wochenschau, Vol. 7, No. 5, Darmstadt 1941
• Kröh, Heinrich Reinhard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 121-122 .
• Inge Lorenz, Claus K. Netuschil , Kunsthalle Darmstadt , Kunstverein Darmstadt: Heinrich Reinhard Kröh, 1841-1941: Life and Work, Magistrate, Kunstverein Darmstadt, Darmstadt Artists Archive, Darmstadt 1992
• Manfred Grosskinsky, Birgit Sander, Haus Giersch - Museum Regionaler Kunst: Kunstlandschaft Rhein-Main: Painting in the 19th Century 1867-1918: Haus Giersch - Museum Regionaler Kunst, 23 September 2001 to 20 January 2002, Frankfurt am Main, Haus Giersch, Frankfurt am Main 2001, p. 112.
• Markus Miller, Andreas Dobler, Christine Klössel, Hessische Hausstiftung, Museum Schloss Fasanerie near Fulda, et al .: Princely children: Portraits from the 16th to 21st centuries in the House of Hesse: Hessische Hausstiftung, Museum Schloss Fasanerie, Eichenzell near Fulda . Michael Imhof Verlag, Eichenzell near Fulda, 2009, p. 208.

Web links

• "Kröh, Heinrich Reinhard". Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).