Johann Christoph Kimpfel
Johann Christoph Kimpfel (born October 15, 1750 in Breslau , † June 21, 1805 in Berlin ) was a German painter, draftsman and caricaturist .
Life
Kimpfel was the son of a Breslau sculptor . In Silesia he became known for his portrait and history painting. In the 1780s he moved to Berlin. The multi-talented painter a. a. together with Carl Gotthard Langhans , the builder of the Brandenburg Gate . In 1788/1789 he was commissioned for murals in the Berlin City Palace , the Castle Monbijou , the Charlottenburg Palace and the Marble Palace in Potsdam . These works quickly made the artist famous, but almost none of these works have survived. Around 1800 Kimpfel also worked as a curtain painter and painted the main curtain of the royal theater in Charlottenburg .
Daniel Chodowiecki once put Kimpfel in "first place as a cartoonist and Mahler" in Berlin. His drawings are among the early examples of realism . His motifs, influenced by the Enlightenment , show his fellow men in a loving and caricaturing way. His animal drawings show the animal existence in the fight for the food bowl or in coexistence with humans. With his works Kimpfel forms "a bridge over the turn of the century from the baroque to the classical art practice".
In Berlin he joined the Masonic lodge Zum Pilgrim .
Exhibitions
- May – June 2012: Johann Christoph Kimpfel - drawings between reality and caricature . Muzeum Miejskie Wrocławia in the Royal Castle in Wroclaw
- April – June 2011: Drawings between reality and caricature , Salzburg Baroque Museum
- November 2005 - May 2006: Drawings between reality and caricature Grafschaftsmuseum Wertheim and Otto-Modersohn-Kabinett in connection with Stiftung Kulturwerk Schlesien
- 1791, 1795, 1804: Participation in the exhibitions of the Berlin Academy of the Arts
literature
- Helmut Scheunchen : Drawings between reality and caricature . In: Schlesischer Kulturspiegel. No. 1/11, Volume 46, Stiftung Kulturwerk Schlesien, Würzburg 2011, p. 18.
- Helmut Börsch-Supan , Helmut Scheunchen: Johann Christoph Kimpfel (1750–1805). A painter from Wroclaw in Berlin . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 2008, ISBN 978-3-87057-276-1 .
- Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon , Volume 7. Verlag von EA Fleischmann, Munich 1852, page 455 books.google.de
- Newspaper for the elegant world , 1805, column 661/662 books.google.de
- Helmut Börsch-Supan: Kimpfel, Johann Christoph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 610 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Christoph Kimpfel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Exhibition 2011 in the Salzburg Baroque Museum
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Bachler: Painted theater curtains in Germany and Austria . Verlag Bruckmann, 1972, ISBN 3-7654-1427-1 excerpt
- ↑ Newspaper for the Elegant World , 1802
- ↑ Journal for Art , Volume 2, 1948, page 25
- ↑ Schlesischer Kulturspiegel, Volume 47, 2012, April – May
- ↑ Gerhild HM Komander: The change of the "Sehepuncktes" . 1995, page 486 books.google.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kimpfel, Johann Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1750 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1805 |
| Place of death | Berlin |