Johann Baptist Kirner
Johann Baptist Kirner (born June 24, 1806 in Furtwangen in the Black Forest , † November 19, 1866 there ) was a German painter .
Life
Johann Baptist Kirner is one of the most important representatives of portrait and genre painting in the first half of the 19th century. He was one of seven children of the shoemaker Johann Kirner. For financial reasons he had to do an apprenticeship with a coach painter in Freiburg and a decorative painter in Villingen. His older brother, the portraitist Lukas Kirner , was admitted to the Augsburg Art School , where he was accepted as a student in history painting in 1822 and was subsequently awarded prize medals.
Johann Baptist enrolled at the Academy in Munich in 1824 . In 1827, with the support of the Konstanz painter Marie Ellenrieder, he received grants from Grand Duke Leopold I of Baden . He first tried his hand at religious compositions, but then turned to more secular motifs. At that time, some humorous pictures and graphics were created for poems by Johann Peter Hebel . From 1829 he lived as a freelance artist in Munich. Kirner traveled to Italy on a grant from the Grand Duke in 1832 , where he shared the studio in Rome from 1832 to 1834 with his Black Forest compatriot Franz Xaver Winterhalter . Kirner spent the spring of 1833 in Naples. In 1837 he left Rome and spent 1838 in Vienna. In 1839 he lived in Furtwangen again, in that year he was appointed court painter to Baden , which required his presence in Karlsruhe. In 1842 he moved to Karlsruhe, where in the same year he was granted an annual pension of 400 guilders with the condition that a painting for the grand ducal private gallery should be delivered every two years. In 1844 he went back to Munich, which forced him to constantly apply for leave to the Grand Ducal Court. In 1856 he became an honorary member of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Until the end of 1865 he lived in Munich, in 1866 he lived again in his hometown, where he also died.
His tombstone in the Furtwangen cemetery was made by a relative of Kirner, the German sculptor Adolf Heer (1849–1898). In the Waldsee district of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau , the name of a street reminds of the painter.
Works (selection)
Some of his paintings and graphics can be found in public museums, including the Georg Schäfer Museum , the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe or the Augustinermuseum in Freiburg.
- Raffael in the Michelangelo pub
- Ave Maria
- The improviser ( Kunsthalle Hamburg )
- Jesuits on the run
- Italian pilgrims , Museum of Foreign Art , Riga, Latvia
- The scattered rioters in the mountains of the Black Forest ( Neue Pinakothek Munich)
- Die Kartschlägerin , in two versions in the Neue Pinakothek and in the Augustinermuseum
- A Baden irregular with his two orderlies (Augustinermuseum Freiburg)
- Italian country folk in prayer in front of a path chapel near Olevano (Augustinian Museum Freiburg)
- Guardia civica
- Prize distribution of the agricultural association in a Hotzenwald farmhouse parlor
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carina Mahlbacher: Johann Baptist Kirner, 1806-1866, Badischer Hofmaler , dissertation, Stuttgart, 1983, p. 16.
- ↑ With pen and pen. Drawings from Classicism to Art Nouveau , Petersberg, Imhof, 2013, pp. 114–115. ISBN 978-3-86568-879-8 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart : Kirner, Johann Baptist . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 26-30.
- Christian Baumann: Johann Baptist Kirner, an important painter of the Black Forest 1806–1866 , in: Badische Heimat, issue 1/1956
- Carina Mahlbacher: Johann Baptist Kirner, 1806 - 1866, court painter from Baden , dissertation, Stuttgart, 1983
- Gabriele Brugger: ways of life - genre painting by JB Kirner and JB Pflug . Exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum Hohenkarpfen, Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron, 2004, ISBN 3-930569-27-2
- History and local history association Furtwangen e. V. (ed.): Johann Baptist Kirner 1806–1866. Exhibition on the 150th anniversary of death , exhibition catalog, Furtwangen, 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-054879-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Baptist Kirner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Letters from and to Kirner, in: Edwin Fecker: Marie Ellenrieder. The written estate
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kirner, Johann Baptist |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Furtwangen in the Black Forest |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1866 |
| Place of death | Furtwangen in the Black Forest |