Karl Christian Koehler
Karl Christian Köhler (born February 3, 1827 in Darmstadt ; † March 1, 1890 there ) was a German painter and art publisher.
Life
At the age of 14, Köhler first learned the book trade in Rotterdam and even then tried to draw from nature. In 1848 he embarked for New York , where he was to set up a branch for his uncle, the art publisher GG Lange in Darmstadt. Prevented by illness, he sought recovery on a farm. There he did nature studies together with his somewhat older compatriot and friend, the landscape painter Paul Weber . A stay in Ostend in 1850, again for the purpose of establishing a branch, offered the opportunity to study the Dutch landscape and to get ideas from dealing with representatives of the local artists.
Finally Köhler arranged for a one-year study visit to Munich , where he turned to art, especially on the advice of his uncle, the painter Julius Lange . In London , where he also worked for the art publisher Lange, he then learned watercolor painting , which from now on he exclusively cultivated. When he returned to Darmstadt, he married the daughter of his uncle GG Lange and founded an art book publisher and retail bookshop .
The illustrations “The Electorate of Hesse ” published by Lange in 1850 already contain drawings by him . Now he began to reproduce his watercolors in colored aquatint sheets , for which he was supported by a well-trained staff of artists in Darmstadt. This is how the works The Kingdom of Saxony , Thuringia and Anhalt , presented in picturesque original views […] by L. Rohbock and C. Koehler, Darmstadt 1857/62, and The Rhine , Salzburg Alps , Thuringian Forest and Harz were created . These series of vedutas , to which there are also many individual sheets, rank Koehler among the first German watercolorists of his time.
Physically suffering, he repeatedly visited Northern Italy and the Riviera , where he again received artistic inspiration from Paul Weber , Ascan Lutteroth and Alexandre Calame . Sudden blindness put an end to his work; but he was still able to bring out his "Technique of Watercolor Painting".
literature
- Koehler, Karl Christian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 123 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Köhler, Karl Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and art publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1890 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |