Herbert Isenberg

Herbert Isenberg (born July 25, 1930 in Sauerland) is a German painter. His work mainly includes rural-peasant motifs in which the harmony of animals, people and landscape is particularly evident.

Career

Since his earliest childhood, Isenberg developed his talent for drawing and painting. Even as a child he always carried a sketch pad with him when, for example, he was tending his grandfather's cows in his homeland in the Sauerland. He developed his drawing and painting skills at the Akademie der Studiengemeinschaft Darmstadt . His artistic work there was highly valued and was used by the academy as didactic material and as the cover of its own magazine, among other things. For Isenberg, studying old masters became essential for painting. Like many old masters, he rubbed his colors himself, drawing on the findings of Max Doerner and Kurt Wehlte .

He achieved his first successes in 1953 when he was awarded the Düsseldorf newspaper prize twice. From 1967 exhibitions in the Palette Frankfurt showed the growing interest of the art trade and the public in his work. At first, Isenberg only worked as an artist in his spare time. From 1970 he made painting his profession. Since then he has been regarded as a successful German painter, who ties in with the art of the old masters in terms of style and subject matter. In many cases he depicts idyllic park landscapes, the ideal world and the merrymaking of the pre-revolutionary nobility in a neo-Rococo style. The composition of his paintings is often characterized by pronounced staffage. Figures of humans and animals enliven landscapes or architectural images and thus illustrate spatial depth and proportions. Isenberg uses drawing and painting in the sense of a poetic realism. Among other things, his series of pictures “On the picturesque Rhine”, which was burned and published on art collecting plates by the Fürstenberg porcelain manufacturer in 1988 and 1989, has become famous.

literature

• Herbert Isenberg, short biography on an information supplement from the Porcelain Manufactory Fürstenberg for the series of art collecting plates "Am picturesque Rhine" by Herbert Isenberg from 1988/89

Web links

• Herbert Isenberg: "On the picturesque Rhine", porcelain collecting plate on porzellankompass.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The article is based on the information supplement from the Fürstenberg porcelain manufactory on the series of art collecting plates "On the picturesque Rhine" by Herbert Isenberg, 1988/89.