Hermann Plathner (painter)

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Hermann August Plathner (born August 23, 1831 in Gronau (Leine) , † March 11, 1902 in Düsseldorf ) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Plathner, a son of Hermann August Plathner (1793-1853) and his wife Sophie, widowed Plock, née Schmidt († 1862), first learned agriculture ("economy") in Sorsum near Hildesheim . After the Polytechnic School in Hanover , he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1854 . Then he was a student of Adolph Tidemand and Rudolf Jordan . On November 20, 1857, he married Gertrud Weyrather, who gave birth to two daughters and two sons between 1858 and 1864. Since 1862 he had his own studio in Düsseldorf. He went on study trips to northern Germany and the Black Forest . Contemporary critics praised the “good characteristics” and “fine mood” of his genre pictures, whose folk motifs show a closeness to the painting of Benjamin Vautier .

Plathner was a member of the artists' association Malkasten and the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft . In 1889 his address was at Rosenstrasse 34 in Düsseldorf- Pempelfort .

Works (selection)

The sold calf
  • The very cozy old woman and her pupils , 1860
  • End of the day , 1863
  • The Politicians , 1866
  • Unstamped cards , 1867
  • Caught on the Evil Road , 1874
  • The portrait , 1876
  • The sold calf

literature

  • Plathner, Hermann . In: Hermann Alexander Müller (Ed.): Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 420
  • Gustav Ebe: The German Cicerone. Guide through the art treasures of the German-speaking countries . Verlag O. Spamer, Leipzig 1898, Volume 3, p. 430

Web links

Commons : Hermann Plathner (painter)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst , Volume 37, Verlag EA Seemann, Leipzig 1902, p. 315
  2. ↑ Die Kunst für Alle , Volume 17, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1902, p. 334
  3. ↑ Otto Plathner: The Plathner family . Berlin 1866, p. 199 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on November 20, 2015
  5. ^ Members of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft in 1890 , website in the portal wladimir-aichelburg.at , accessed on November 20, 2015
  6. ^ Address book entry Hermann Plathner (address book of the Oberbürgermeisterei Düsseldorf 1889) , website in the adressbuecher.ne portal , accessed on November 20, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Plathner, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plathner, Hermann A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Gronau (Leine)
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1902
Place of death Dusseldorf