Karl Haider

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Self-Portrait 1875
Self-Portrait 1906
Haider monument in Schliersee

Karl Michael Haider (born February 6, 1846 in Munich , † October 28, 1912 in Schliersee ) was a German landscape and portrait painter from the Kingdom of Bavaria .

Life

Karl Haider was the son of the forest master from Anzing , Max Haider and his wife Therese Fäßler. Haider received his first artistic lessons from his father. He taught him on long excursions through the area to observe closely and reproduce true to detail.

Haider spent a few years at a musical high school in Munich in order to lay a solid foundation for a later training as a singer by attending school. But even during his time as a high school student, Haider's career aspiration to become a painter was consolidated. As soon as possible he switched to a private painting school and was later able to attend the academy in Munich with the recommendation of his teachers .

There he soon made friends with Hans Thoma and Wilhelm Leibl , who both influenced him. Haider then also joined the circle around his friend Leibl. You can still see him as the “lyricist” of this group of artists. In addition to landscape painting, Haider was also interested in Albrecht Altdorfer and Hans Holbein . From the early Dutch, Haider u. a. Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden .

In 1874 Haider married Katharina, a niece of the sculptor Friedrich Brugger . With her he had two daughters and a son, the later painter Hubert Haider (1879–1971).

In the following year, Haider went to Florence at the age of 29 , where he copied "old masters" by making woodcuts from them. There he met the painter Arnold Böcklin , who often invited him to his Tuscan villa. The two painters became friends, despite sometimes opposing views on artistic subjects. Haider returned to Munich in the early summer of 1876.

There he settled as a freelance painter, but did not achieve the desired artistic breakthrough despite efforts. All museums and galleries rejected his pictures and only a few private commissions ensured him an extremely modest livelihood. When his wife Katharina died in 1882, the Munich painter Franz von Lenbach financed the funeral. Haider's friends from the Leibl Circle, especially Hans Thoma, also repeatedly helped the highly indebted friend and colleague. The critic Adolf Bayersdorfer also repeatedly advocated Haider.

In 1890 Haider married Ernestine Schwarz for the second time; but this connection was as brief as it was unfortunate. With his second wife he had a son, the later painter Ernst Haider (1890–1988).

In 1894, through intercession from the academy, Haider was granted a small pension by the state. Slowly there was also an artistic success that also had a financial impact. But all his life Haider struggled with his fear of impoverishment. In 1896 Haider and his family settled in Schliersee.

Haider's grave in Schliersee

In 1897 his picture, Autumn Evening, was awarded a gold medal at the "Munich International Exhibition". In the following years Haider made shorter study trips to Austria ( Vienna ), Hungary ( Budapest ) and Italy (Florence). The impressions of these trips were later reflected in new pictures. Haider, however, in no way neglected his portraits, some of which are still among his most important pictures today.

As an early member of the German Association of Artists , Karl Haider took part in the first DKB exhibition , which was still organized by the Munich secessionists , in 1904 in the Royal Art Exhibition Building on Königplatz, where he was represented with three oil paintings. On the occasion of his birthday in 1911, the Munich Secession celebrated him with a large exhibition. The University of Wroclaw awarded him the title of Dr. phil. hc

Karl Haider died in Schliersee on October 28, 1912 at the age of 66. His tomb, created in 1912 by the sculptor Hermann Lang , has been preserved. A street in Schliersee was named after him.

Works (selection)

  • Two Girls in the Meadow (1870)
  • Ebenberger Oak (1871)
  • Self-Portrait (1875)
  • Portrait Katharina Haider (1875)
  • Portrait Elise Greinwald (1877)
  • Flower meadow (1878)
  • The new nozzle (1880)
  • Above all the peaks is Ruh (1886)
  • Moni (1888)
  • Schlierseerin (1891)
  • Spring landscape near Hausham (1896)
  • Autumn evening (1896)
  • The Ostertal with the Kienberghorn (1897)
  • Dante and Beatrice (1902)
  • Girl with a Bouquet of Flowers (1904)
  • Holy Grove (1905)
  • Self-Portrait (1906)
  • Overcast sky (1908)
  • Above all the peaks is Ruh (1912)
  • Thunderstorm landscape

  • The new nozzle

  • Schlierseerin

  • Spring landscape near Hausham

  • The Ostertal with the Kienberghorn

For more pictures see Commons .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition catalog X. Exhibition of the Munich Secession: The German Association of Artists (in connection with an exhibition of exquisite products of the arts in the craft) , Verlaganstalt F. Bruckmann, Munich 1904, p. 22: Haider, Karl, Schliersee. Fig. 39: girl with flowers ; Fig. 61: Charon ; no picture: Dante and Virgil meeting Beatrice in earthly paradise.

Web links

Commons : Karl Haider  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Haider, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haider, Karl Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1912
Place of death Schliersee