Josef Winkel
Josef Winkel (born March 4, 1875 in Cologne , † December 18, 1904 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape , portrait , figure and genre painter and draftsman from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Winkel was initially a private student of the church painter Friedrich Stummel . From 1899 to 1901 he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Arthur fight and Eduard von Gebhardt his teachers. Because of his talent, Winkel was in the favor of the art historian Paul Clemen , for whom he made watercolor drawings in connection with an art history exhibition in 1902, which he published in 1905 in the table work Die Romanische Wandmalereien der Rheinlande . The artistic estate of the artist, who died in Düsseldorf at the age of 29, was acquired in 1905 in the Cologne Art Associationdisplayed. This oeuvre comprised around 90 objects, including many unfinished oil paintings and sketches, watercolors and pen drawings, such as the pictures The Listener , The Witch , The Forest Giant with Mushroom Man and Forest Brother . The painting The Dance of Death is considered to be his most important work at the time .
literature
- Winkel, Josef . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947.
Web links
- Josef Winkel , data sheet in the rkd.nl portal( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ↑ Uwe Bathe: The Romanesque chapter house in Brauweiler. A critical inventory of his architecture, building sculpture and painting (= medievalis. Contributions to the art of the Middle Ages , Volume 3). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-89498-100-6 , p. 282
- ↑ The art for everyone . Volume XX (1904/1905), p. 511 ( digital copy )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Winkel, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape, portrait, figure and genre painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1904 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |