Jacob Kull

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Jacob Kull (also Jakob Kull ) (* 1818 in Lustenau (today a residential area in the Laubach part of Abtsgmünd ); † 1880 in Stuttgart ) was a Württemberg draftsman , painter , lithographer and photographer . He worked in Tübingen and Stuttgart.

Tübingen (collective picture with 13 single pictures, colored lithograph, 1850)
Jacob Kull: Portrait of Carl Wuest († 1857), a member of the Roigel royal society (drawing, 1857)
Jacob Kull: Portrait of Christian Friedrich (von) Schmid (Professor of Protestant Theology, † 1852) (lithograph after an unknown daguerreotype , around 1850)

Life

Jacob Kull worked as a draftsman and lithographer in Tübingen from 1841. He mainly made portraits, half-length busts that were fully concentrated on the carefully worked out face, seated half-figures in the extensive iconography of the scholarly portraits, and, as an exception, full-length figures. His customers were primarily students from Tübingen and university lecturers. Over time, Kull expanded his range and began painting in oils as early as the first half of the 1840s. With the oil portraits he had achieved a certain reputation, because as early as 1846 he succeeded in getting a commission for a portrait for the Tübingen Professorengalerie ( Gottlieb Lukas Friedrich Tafel ).

He also drew views of Tübingen. A large-format collective picture (with 13 individual images) from Tübingen is known, which was reproduced as a colored lithograph for sale. This collector's picture is without a doubt an impressive testimony to the lithographic skills of Kull. But both in the idea and in the depiction of some motifs he copied earlier such pictures by Ludwig August Helvig and Carl Baumann .

In order to keep his finger on the pulse of the times, in 1854 he expanded his range to include photography. He enjoyed a reputation in Tübingen, but the great competition among portraitists during this time made him change his place of residence. In November 1859 he moved to Stuttgart.

More famous works

  • 1846 Portrait of Prof. Gottlieb Lukas Friedrich Tafel (1787–1860, oil on linen, Tübingen Professorengalerie)
  • around 1850 Portrait of Prof. Christian Friedrich (von) Schmid (lithograph after daguerreotype)
  • 1850 Tübingen (collective picture with 13 single pictures, watercolored lithograph)
  • 1857 portrait of Carl Wuest (drawing)

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Hesse: Views from Swabia ... , p. 98, or Stadtbild - Weltbild , p. 259
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Hesse: Views from Swabia ... , p. 7
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Hesse: Views from Swabia ... , p. 8
  4. ↑ In the local council minutes of 1855 (§ 1014, City Archives Tübingen, inventory A75) he is probably first referred to as a “painter and lithographer”. (Wolfgang Hesse: Views from Swabia ... , p. 29)
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Hesse: Views from Swabia ... , p. 22 quotes Kull's advertisement in the "Tübinger Chronik" of September 20, 1854: "I hereby indicate that I have left my previous apartment on the Graben and now in the former Müller house in the Burgstaig live. At the same time I recommend myself in oil painting, lithography and photography. "
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Hesse: Views from Swabia ... , p. 29 with reference to "Tübinger Chronik" from November 16, 1859
  7. ↑ Reinhold Scholl: The portrait collection of the University of Tübingen , Stuttgart 1927, p. 53

bibliography

  • Wolfgang Hesse: Views from Swabia. Art, country and people in photos by the first Tübingen photographers and the photographer Paul Sinner (1838–1925) , Metz brothers, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-921580-79-X

not yet evaluated

  • (Georg Schmidgall :) 150 years of student history. Schmidgall Collection leaves Tübingen . In: Sunday supplement to "Swabian Merkur" from January 17, 1937

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personal data
SURNAME Kull, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kull, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, painter, lithographer and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Lustenau
DATE OF DEATH 1880
Place of death Stuttgart