Joseph Flüggen

Joseph Flüggen (1842–1906)

Joseph Flüggen (born April 3, 1842 in Munich ; † November 3, 1906 ) was a German genre and history painter of realism .

Life

Joseph Flüggen, son of Gisbert Flüggen from Munich, was initially trained by his father, then at the academy and especially by Karl Theodor von Piloty . In 1866 he went to Paris , London and Antwerp and in the latter city took much of the ancient direction of the painter Hendrik Leys .

His portraits are full of life and skillful modeling; his genre pictures, less ingenious than those of his father, have simple motifs and reveal a fine rhythm in composition and coloring .

Joseph Flüggen's first genre painting (1868) depicted Landgravine Elisabeth of Thuringia (1207–1231), who was allegedly expelled by her brother-in-law Heinrich Raspe IV , who found refuge with her four children in a derelict hut in winter.

He designed the costumes for the production of Tristan and Isolde in Bayreuth.

tomb

Grave of Joseph Flüggen on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The grave of Joseph Flüggen is on the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich (Grave field 18 - row 13 - place 32) location . His father Gisbert Flüggen is also in the graveyard . 48.127527777778 11.56425

Works (selection)

The landlady Töchterlein , according to Ludwig Uhland (1869), expressed the sensitive nature of his talent even more clearly and successfully, and his later creations also belong to the same direction:

Family happiness
On the beach of Genoa
The pouting lovers
Milton who dictated the "Paradise Lost"
The goldsmith's daughter
Landgravine Margarete, who says goodbye to her children
Regina Imhof, later wife of Georg Fugger, receiving the bride's presents
The baptism of Emperor Maximilian I.

Its sweetish coloring and its dull characteristics are the expression of his way of feeling.

Gisbert Flüggen , father of Joseph Flüggen
Carl Theodor von Piloty (1826–1886) , German painter
Death of St. Elisabeth - by Joseph Flüggen
King Ludwig's visit to Stieler's studio, painter of the beauty gallery - by Joseph Flüggen

literature

Hyacinth Holland : Flüggen, Josef . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 130 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Claudia Denk, John Ziesemer: "Art and Memoria, The Old Southern Cemetery in Munich" (2014), Grabstätte 115, p. 390 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Flüggen, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 3, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	November 3, 1906

[1] Claudia Denk, John Ziesemer: "Art and Memoria, The Old Southern Cemetery in Munich" (2014), Grabstätte 115, p. 390 f.