Jean-Jules Adrien Kunkler

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Jean-Jules Adrien Kunkler (* 1829 in Morges , Canton of Vaud ; † December 26, 1866 in Geneva ) was a Swiss genre and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Kunkler, son of a family from St. Gallen , began his training as a painter in Geneva under Jean-Léonard Lugardon (1801–1884) and the landscape painter Jean Charles Ferdinand Humbert (1813–1881). In 1850 he began studying at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , at the same time as his friend Benjamin Vautier , which he finished in 1852. At the Düsseldorf Academy, where his friend Alfred Dumont followed him in 1852 , Karl Ferdinand's son was his most important teacher. From 1850 to 1854 he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . In 1854 he returned to Geneva, where he exhibited his picture selling his favorite sheep. Then Kunkler made trips to Savoy , Provence and Spain , where he stayed in Palma ( Balearic Islands ) and Barcelona in 1855 . In 1858 he returned to Geneva from these trips. He married in October 1862. During the last years of his life, he lived with his family in the summer at Ostier Castle at the foot of the Voiron.

Works (selection)

  • Selling the favorite sheep , before 1855
  • An Offer of Marriage , 1855, Victoria and Albert Museum
  • The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem , exhibited in the Salon de Paris 1865
  • Family at breakfast , 1866
  • Choulex , 1868
  • Lunch break in front of a Spanish city
  • Salvator Rosa painting in the midst of a group of robbers
  • Under the arbor
  • Rousseau with the parish priest at Confignon
  • Rousseau in the dairy farm at Thone Castle
  • Jesus driving the traders out of the temple , unfinished
  • Crossbow shooting
  • Bernese children's scene

literature

  • CM Kauffmann: Catalog of Foreign Paintings , Vol. II: 1800–1900, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1973, p. 59 (catalog no. 128)
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 , p. 296.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kunkler, Jean-Jules-Adrien , data sheet in the sikart.ch portal (Swiss Institute for Art Research ), accessed on February 18, 2016
  2. ↑ Robert Naumann (Ed.): Archives for the drawing arts with special reference to the art of engraving and woodcutting and their history . Verlag Rudolph Weigel, Leipzig 1866, volumes 13/14, p. 117 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819-1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 434
  4. ↑ Robert Naumann (Ed.), P. 119
  5. ↑ An Offer of Marriage , website in the portal vads.ac.uk , accessed on February 18, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kunkler, Jean-Jules Adrien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss genre and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Morges , Canton of Vaud
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1866
Place of death Geneva