Joseph Rummelspacher

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Joseph Rummelspacher (born November 23, 1852 in Berlin ; † December 10, 1921 there ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

Rummelspacher was a son of the secret chancellery, secret chancellery director in the Berlin Ministry of Justice and captain a. D. Wilhelm Rummelspacher and a grandson of the innkeeper Joseph Kroll (1797–1848) from Breslau, the founder of the Krollschen Establishment in Berlin.

After graduating from high school in 1870, he attended the Academy of Arts in Berlin. From 1871 to 1873 he was a student of Theodor Hagen at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar . Here he had the opportunity to join the new realistic trend known as the Weimar School of Painting , which adopted the ideals of the Barbizon School . From 1873 he worked independently in Düsseldorf , where Eugen Dücker may have influenced him.

In 1875 he went back to Berlin, where he apparently initially lived with his parents in Kroll's establishment. In 1879 he had his own apartment at Luisenplatz 8. In 1880 he married Klara Wegener. In the same year he rented a studio at Lützowstrasse 7. He later also took an apartment in this house, which he kept until his death, while the studio was temporarily located at Anhaltstrasse 11. He was a member of the Berlin Artists Association .

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Furtschaglhaus around 1894

Rummelspacher's pictures initially dealt with motifs from the Black Forest , later from the Mark Brandenburg (at the latest since 1880) and Mecklenburg . Study trips led him a. a. 1879 to Switzerland and Northern Italy , to Corsica (1887 or earlier), 1887 (also 1889 and 1890?) To southern Norway (Ogna, Sognefjord , Fjærlandsfjord ), 1888 to Spitzbergen and the Harz Mountains , 1891 to South Tyrol and 1903 to Upper Bavaria . His motifs from Sylt and the Eifel are also known. The painter 's main areas of activity were Wer ist's? from 1905 himself "high mountain, marrow and heather painting" on.

He also dealt with panoramas . For the Berlin trade exhibition in 1896, he directed the production of a panorama through which he became known to a large audience. For the world exhibition in Chicago in 1893 he painted two panoramas of German wine landscapes (Rheingau and Moselle valley). For the World Exhibition in St. Louis in 1904 he was in charge of the dioramas The German and Tyrolean Alps . In this context he traveled to New York in 1903 with the express steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II, which had just been put into service . According to his own statements, he created especially alpine panoramas, which were also shown in Brussels, Hamburg and Düsseldorf.

Paintings he sent u. a. at exhibitions in Bremen, Berlin, Dresden, Kassel, Munich and Vienna. Most often he exhibited at the Berlin academy exhibition (since 1876). Sometimes he also gave paintings to the Berlin auction house Rudolph Lepke .

reception

The Biographisches Künstlerlexikon wrote in 1882 that his pictures show "healthy realism and strong coloring " and promise "a lot for the future". In the same year, the art chronicle praised the fact that his moonshine painting Hausbrand in a Rhöndorf managed "without showmanship", "as you can often see in this case." At the turn of the century, however, he missed the connection with the secession, so that Paul Warncke in the Kunstchronik from 1900 was able to dismiss his works as “gloomy oil pressure pictures” with a few exceptions.

progeny

Rummelspacher had three sons:

  • Wilhelm Rummelspacher
  • Curt Rummelspacher (born May 26, 1885) became an architect
  • Josef Rummelspacher (1891–1979) lived in the apartment on Lützowstrasse until 1939 and, in addition to his work as a bank clerk, painted motifs similar to his father.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Passenger List, North German Lloyd SS Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1903 Bremen to New York.
personal data
SURNAME Rummelspacher, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1921
Place of death Berlin , Free State of Prussia , Weimar Republic