Friedrich Voltz
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Johann Friedrich Voltz (around 1850)
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and around (1870) graphic by Hermann Scherenberg
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Johann Friedrich Voltz (born October 31, 1817 in Nördlingen , † June 25, 1886 in Munich ) was a German animal painter and landscape painter from the Munich School (fine arts) .
Life
Friedrich Voltz received his first instruction in art from his father, the painter , engraver and illustrator , Johann Michael Voltz (1784-1858), began his artistic career as an etcher and went to Munich in 1834 at the academy , where he found less support than through fine studies after the Dutch in the Pinakothek and after nature. He was influenced by Albrecht Adam and his friends Carl Spitzweg and Eduard Schleich the Elder. Ä. Sometimes he painted the cows in Schleich's landscapes. In the beginning he worked as an etcher and lithographer and at the same time painted landscapes from the Bavarian high mountains until the end of the 30s.
After seeing the picture The Young Bull by Paulus Potter in Holland in 1841 , he devoted himself primarily to animal painting. He turned to the Bavarian plain, especially Lake Starnberg, and painted grazing or drinking cattle, horses, sheep and goats. After traveling to Belgium and Holland in 1846, he joined the Dutch mood painters, where he was even more encouraged by the influence of Christian Morgenstern and Eduard Schleich. In his numerous landscapes with animal decorations, which have been created since the beginning of the 1950s, mostly in an elongated, wide format, he henceforth placed the emphasis on the lighting and the mood in humid air, where it was now a warm gold tone, now a cool silvery one Tone preferred. Voltz showed the animals lying or standing without much movement, but achieved painterly drama through the strong alternation of light and shadow.
Voltz also founded the breed portrait of cows, which had been reserved for horses until then, in the 1840s. It emerged against the background of the increasing conscious use and breeding of certain breeds in agriculture. He often portrayed Ampermoos cattle.
Voltz was considered the most important German animal painter of his time and was replaced in this rank by Anton Braith . Pictures of him can be found in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, in the Museum in Cologne and in the Berlin National Gallery.
He was a royal professor. The animal and hunting scene painter Ludwig Gustav Voltz (1825–1911) was his brother eight years younger. His eldest son, Dr. Albert Voltz became a doctor, the younger son Richard Voltz (1859–1933) also became a painter, of whom animal and landscape portraits have been preserved.
tomb
The tomb of Johann Voltz is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (wall right place 129 in burial 6) Location .
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Voltz, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 276-280.
- Voltz, Friedrich (Joh.Fr.) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 537 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Voltz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Life and work of Johann Friedrich Voltz
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| SURNAME | Voltz, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Voltz, Johann Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German animal and landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nordlingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 1886 |
| Place of death | Munich |