Julius Muhr

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Mourning fisher woman on the beach (oil painting, Hamburger Kunsthalle )
In the courtyard of an Italian homestead

Julius Muhr (born June 21, 1819 in Pleß , Pleß district , province of Silesia , † February 9, 1865 in Munich ) was a German painter .

Life

His father, a merchant from the emancipating Judaism , encouraged his son's talent early on, so that Muhr received lessons at the Berlin Academy as a boy . From 1838 he studied under Peter von Cornelius at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1847 he was commissioned by Wilhelm von Kaulbach to work together with Michael Echter on the design of the New Museum in Berlin . Muhr and Echter worked there for eight years on the large murals from Kaulbach's picture cycle in the museum's stairwell . On this occasion theKaulbach, Echters and Muhrs coffee blot pictures: the artists were inspired by the random shape of a coffee stain to create humorous pictures that were collected in a folder and then published.

From 1852 to 1858 Muhr spent most of the winter in Italy. There was a sermon in the Sistine Chapel with Pope Pius IX. for which he was modeled by some of the cardinals depicted. "Influential ecclesiastical dignitaries had granted him their protection and even a few meetings, in the silent hope of luring the Jewish artist to baptism, which of course failed."

In 1859 Muhr moved from Berlin to Munich, where he converted to Christianity, with Paul Heyse being his godfather. He then turned increasingly to history and genre painting : The following paintings were created:

  • "Banquet of Queen Joan of Arragon" (1859)
  • "Musician Monks" (1860)
  • "Siesta of the Nuns" (1860)
  • "Job" (1861)
  • "Bacchante" (1862)
  • "Fisherman's House near Sorrento" (1863)
  • "Moonrise" (1864)
  • "Girls from Ischia" (1864)

Muhr was also successful as a portrait painter, including portraits of the founder of Jewish studies Leopold Zunz , the painter Friedrich Overbeck for the art patron and collector Atanazy Raczyński , and Sophie Friederike of Bavaria and Ludwig II of Bavaria.

Muhr was married to Mathilde von Colomb (born March 31, 1827, † 1912) a daughter of General Friedrich August Peter von Colomb . He died in Munich in 1865 and was buried in the Altes Südfriedhof .

literature

  • Yvonne Gleibs: Jews in the cultural and scientific life of Munich in the second half of the 19th century. Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia Issue 76. New series of publications of the Munich City Archives Vol. 96. Munich 1981, ISBN 3-87913-085-X . Pp. 59-60
  • Paul Heyse: memories of youth and confessions. Volume 1: From Life. Stuttgart and Berlin 1912 ( zeno.org ).
  • Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Michael Echter, Julius Muhr: Coffee-Klexbilder. Humorous hand drawings. Based on the originals in the possession of the Royal National Gallery. Schloemp, Leipzig 1881.
  • Hyacinth Holland:  Muhr, Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 484 f.
  • Muhr, Julius . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 257 .

Web links

Commons : Julius Muhr  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present gives the date of birth June 19, 1819 and the place of birth Pleß in Bavaria, information here follows the General German Biography .
  2. ^ Foreword to Kaulbach, Echter, Muhr: Kaffee-Klexbilder. ;
    Monika Schmitz-Emans: The literature, the pictures and the invisible. Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-8260-1573-8 , p. 221.
  3. ↑ a b Heyse youth memories. P. 117 ( zeno.org ).
  4. ↑ Grave on the old Munich South Cemetery Register
personal data
SURNAME Muhr, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Pless , Pless District , Silesia Province
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1865
Place of death Munich