Johann Baptist Kuhn

Johann Baptist Kuhn (born August 16, 1810 in Durach ; † January 6, 1871 in Munich ) was a German painter , lithographer and entrepreneur .

Life

The entry of 14-year-old Johannes Kuhn, son of a master weaver from Durach, Kempten district , into portrait painting at the Munich Art Academy was documented on November 22, 1824 . There is no further information on his teachers and the progress of the training. In 1837 he married the Munich state council and conference clerk daughter Johanna Mayr (1809–1886), who ran a cleaning and sewing shop and in 1836 had acquired a license for “private lessons in female handicraft”. The marriage resulted in seven children, among them Max Kuhn , called "the Elder" (1838–1888), who made a name for himself as a prolific painter and draftsman .

Johann Baptist Kuhn initially worked as an architecture and landscape painter . In 1851 he also acquired a license from the Munich magistrate to set up a "lithographic establishment" in which he graphically implemented his own and third-party templates for reproduction using the still young lithographic technique . Became popular which in its Offizin printed portrait of King Ludwig I of Bavaria , the Munich lithographer Ignaz finished (1809-1858) after a painting by Joseph Stieler had drawn on the stone.

Selection of works

personal work:

• The Prinz-Carl-Palais in Munich , watercolor 1840: Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle
• Ludwigstrasse in Munich , pencil, pen, watercolors 1840: Munich, Stadtmuseum
• The Munich Residenz seen from the Hofgarten , 1839
• The residence seen from Max-Joseph Platz
• The Leuchtenberg Palace in Munich , watercolor 1840 (formerly owned by Queen Elisabeth of Prussia )
• View of Karolinenplatz in Munich with rich staffage , watercolor 1840
• The Königsbau in Munich , watercolor, around 1842
• Hohenschwangau Castle , watercolor

Lithographs based on your own templates (selection):

• View of the busy Kaufingerstrasse to the west ; on the right the Mauthalle (Augustinian Church), the Michaelskirche and the Jesuit College, on the left the windows of the Hermann'schen Kunsthandlung, in front of whose showcases the interested public crowd, on the right carts and passers-by; Lithograph after JB Kuhn, around 1840

Lithographs based on external templates (selection):

Numerous drawings based on models by their son Max Kuhn the Elder were reproduced as lithographs. Ä. ten lithographs on the works of Goethe, lithographed by CW Müller (ie Carl Wilhelm Müller, 1839–1904), printed by Johann Baptist Kuhn, are kept in the Goethe House in Frankfurt am Main

• General view of Munich from Giesinger Berg framed by 16 partial views, lithograph with clay plate by Valentin Ruths, printed by JB Kuhn, 1848
• Portrait of Karl Lichtenstein (1816–1866) after Joseph Resch , 1856

literature

• Georg Caspar Nagler (Ed.): New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers , etc. Vol. 7, Keyser-Lodewyck. A. Fleischmann, Munich 1837
• Kuhn, Johann Baptist . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933.
• Armin Second (Ed.), Erika Bierhaus-Rödiger, Helmut Friedel (Red.): Münchner Landschaftsmalerei 1800-1850 . Exhibition catalog. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Munich, March 8th - May 20th 1979. Munich 1979
• 125 years of the Bavarian Arts and Crafts Association . Exhibition catalog. Stadtmuseum München, 1979, pp. 26, 33, 119
• Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1849 to 1918 . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , p. 47 (Fig.)

Web links

• German biography - Kuhn, Johann Baptist (online)
• Johann Baptist Kuhn - German Digital Library (online)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 00983 Johannes Kuhn, Matrikelbuch 1809-1841, matrikel.adbk.de, accessed on November 9, 2016
2. ↑ The youngest daughter Anna (* 1850) married Peter Hasenclever, the son of the Düsseldorf painter Johann Peter Hasenclever and godson of the still life painter Johann Wilhelm Preyer , who was a candidate for teaching and later became a real teacher for drawing and modeling at the Ludwig Realschule in Munich
3. ↑ Dorothea Minkels : Elisabeth von Preußen, Queen in the time of AusMÄRZens , BOD, Norderstedt 2008, p. 383.
4. ↑ Frankfurt Goethe House / Free German Hochstift (online)