Johann Bernhard Klombeck

Johann Bernhard Klombeck (partly also Klombek ) (* July 1, 1815 near Kleve ; † November 28, 1893 ibid) was a landscape painter who can be assigned to the so-called Kleve Romanticism .

Life

Klombeck grew up in the German - Dutch border area. His parents were the master tailor Heinrich Klombeck from Kleve and his wife Marianne Tinthoff, a half-sister of the painter Matthias Tinthoff . It was this uncle who taught the young Johann Bernhard Klombeck the basics of painting and gave him his first lessons.

From 1841 he enjoyed the influence of the then well-known Dutch landscape painter Barend Cornelis Koekkoek , who taught him at the then newly founded art academy in Kleve.

Klombeck showed his first exhibitions in his hometown Kleve and in Nijmegen . Between 1843 and 1856 his works were u. a. shown at major exhibitions in Amsterdam , Rotterdam , The Hague , Dresden and Berlin .

Klombeck grew into a formative painter of the " Romantic School " and was the successor to Koekkoek, who died in 1862 , as head of the art academy in Kleve.

Works

He found his motifs in the landscape of the Lower Rhine and the neighboring Netherlands. They were mostly romanticized motifs with knotty oak or castle - ruins as eye-catching. Dramatic cloud formations also became his style features.

At the height of his creative period he met the Belgian animal and person painter Eugène Verboeckhoven . In collaboration with Verboeckhoven, landscape paintings were created that were "animated" with people and animals. These works were mostly signed by both artists.

In addition to works in oil on canvas , there were also numerous works in oil on wood. Klombeck often only signed with JBK , sometimes in the middle at the bottom of his works. Important works by Klombeck fetched prices of over 100,000 euros at auctions in Germany and abroad .

gallery

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  Summer landscape with cattle (1870, with Eugène Verboeckhoven )

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  Forest scene (1857)

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  Winter landscape with horse and cart (before 1893)

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  Wanderer by the stream (1854)

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  Winter landscape (1863, with Eugène Verboeckhoven)

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  Winter landscape with sledge drivers (1863, with Eugène Verboeckhoven)

Web links

Commons : Johann Bernhard Klombeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by Klombeck at Artnet