Hermann Koch (painter)

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Hermann Koch (born November 22, 1856 in Dömitz , † July 19, 1939 in Munich ) was a German painter .

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The gazebo 1892
Adelheid von Weislingen at the court of the bishop of Bamberg, Die Gartenlaube (1887), p. 380.

Koch was the son of the architect Friedrich Koch († 1894), who was in the service of the Grand Duke as district building manager, and his wife Theodore Sophie Elisabeth (née Böttcher). He was baptized on January 1, 1857 in the Johanneskirche of his birthplace in the name of Friedrich August Herrmann Koch. Koch was initially trained by his father in Güstrow. He studied sculpture under August von Kreling at the Nuremberg Art School from 1875 to 1877 and enrolled on October 12, 1877 under the number 3454 as a painting student for the art subject "Nature Class" under Ludwig von Löfftz and Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Elder. J. entered the Munich Academy , where he studied until 1882. Koch was a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative and lived in Munich until his death.

Koch is counted among the artists of the "Munich School". His pictures often show ecclesiastical or historical motifs, but also portraits, fruit still lifes and flower motifs. His works include Tintoretto, painting the corpse of his daughter (1881/82), a painting with which he made his debut at the International Art Exhibition in 1883 in the Münchmar Glaspalast . Other works were Ave Maria (1883), Ingeborg am Meer with the falcon on his shoulder (1886), Das Echo (1888), Funeral of a nun in Frauenchiemsee (1891, 2nd version 1909) and Countess Hohenthal-Güchau .

Koch, who had settled on Theresienstraße in Munich, married and had two children. His most important works were created between 1883 and 1914. Some were printed in magazines such as the Gartenlaube , the Illustrierte Zeitung or the entertainment paper Über Land und Meer . His pictures have been shown at exhibitions and in galleries in Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf and Vienna. The painting Ingeborg am Meer was acquired by Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837–1898). The echo went to the Mecklenburg art collection in Schwerin, where it has been listed as a war loss since 1945.

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Commons : Hermann Koch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hartmut Brun: Hermann Koch: painter of excellent portraits of women . In: Schweizer Volkszeitung . April 22, 2016 ( svz.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Doemitz
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1939
Place of death Munich