Joseph Kellerhoven

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Joseph Kellerhoven , baptismal name Joseph Willibald Kellerhoven (born April 27, 1789 in Mannheim , † June 18, 1849 in Speyer ) was a German painter, son of the more famous Moritz Kellerhoven .

Life

Bishop Matthäus Georg von Chandelle , painted by Joseph Kellerhoven.

Joseph Kellerhoven was born in Mannheim as the son of the Bavarian court painter Moritz Kellerhoven. He grew up in Munich, where his father mainly worked as a sought-after portrait painter and in 1808 became the first professor at the Academy of Fine Arts .

In 1809 Joseph Kellerhoven entered the Munich Art Academy, history painting department, as an apprentice . He learned painting mainly from his father. In addition to this, Robert von Langer , son of the academy director Johann Peter von Langer , as well as Joseph Hauber , Andreas Seidl and Johann Georg von Dillis taught there at that time .

At the Munich art exhibition in 1814, Joseph Kellerhoven presented his own work to a larger audience for the first time. They were: “Male portrait” , “Swiss girl” and “Christ breaks the bread” .

In 1818 Kellerhoven moved to Speyer in the Palatinate , where he accepted a position as a drawing teacher at the royal grammar school. On January 1, 1819 he took up his new office. In 1825 the city opened a building trade school, where Kellerhoven was hired in the same position on a higher salary. Before the move, the painter Friedericke Feiler from Berlin , daughter of the Prussian war council Friedrich Feiler, had married. The marriage had two sons who both died in childhood; the future Cardinal Johann Jakob von Geissel acted as godfather to one of them in 1822. Friedericke Kellerhoven, b. Feiler, died on May 31, 1827, at the age of 29, in Speyer. From 1839 the painter worked as an art teacher at the city's newly founded Catholic school teacher seminar. On November 11, 1840, Joseph Kellerhoven married Elisabeth Werner, daughter of the landowner Peter Werner, from Oberingelheim . the marriage remained childless.

Konrad Reither , the later Bishop of Speyer, reported in 1864, in his commemorative publication for the 25th anniversary of the Catholic school teacher seminar, about Kellerhagen's tragic end:

“On September 29, 1842, the drawing teacher Kellerhoven was struck by a blow from the river and so paralyzed that he could no longer take over his functions. For almost 7 years he lived a life of suffering, cared for in an exemplary manner by his faithful, well-behaved wife, and died, certainly not without inner gain, which he received from this examination period, devoted to the will of the Lord on June 18, 1849. "

- Konrad Reither, Festschrift school teacher seminar, 1864

Joseph Kellerhoven was buried in the Catholic part of the old cemetery in Speyer .

plant

Joseph von Stichaner , lithograph after the painting by Joseph Kellerhoven

In addition to religious paintings, Joseph Kellerhoven mainly produced high-quality portraits that are reminiscent of his father's style. The most famous of these, a portrait of the first modern Speyer bishop Matthäus Georg von Chandelle , is now in the Episcopal Ordinariate in Speyer. He also portrayed his successors Johann Martin Manl and Peter von Richarz , but also District President Joseph von Stichaner and many other local greats. Most of these portraits were reproduced as lithographs by other artists . B. by J. Velten in Karlsruhe. A representation of the Speyer Cathedral from the northeast has also been preserved by Joseph Kellerhoven (Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer). An altarpiece "Christ on the Cross" for the Catholic parish church in Otterstadt near Speyer is missing.

Bishop Reither judges the art of Kellerhagen as follows:

“He was a painter, educated in the Munich school and as such an artist who showed a higher conception, a fine sense of color and a practiced technique in some nice oil paintings. As a draftsman he was very skillful and gave the drawing lessons according to the requirements as they were then, very excellently. "

- Konrad Reither, Festschrift school teacher seminar, 1864

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation entry Joseph Kellerhoven, Art Academy Munich.
  2. ^ CV Andreas Seidel, painter
  3. ↑ On the Otterstadt altarpiece by Joseph Kellerhoven (penultimate section) ( Memento from April 26, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kellerhoven, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kellerhoven, Joseph Willibald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1849
Place of death Speyer