Karl Heffner
Karl Heffner (* 1849 in Würzburg , † 1927 in Berlin ) was a landscape painter of early German Impressionism .
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Heffner studied music in Munich and continued his autodidactic training as a painter . During his time in Munich he frequented the Lenbach district and was trained by the Munich landscape painter Adolf Stademann . He made numerous trips to England and Italy as well as to Upper Bavaria and the Baltic Sea. From 1894 he was based in Dresden, then in Freiburg im Breisgau and finally in Berlin. He spent the winter months in Rome until 1888.
His work was under the strong influence of English and French landscape painting; Heffner's role models were the masters of the “ Barbizon School ”. The preferred motif was "lonely nature". In England he was one of the best-paid masters, around 1883 he is described as the leading German landscape painter.
Heffner's work has been shown in exhibitions a. a. shown in Paris, Vienna, Munich, Berlin and London. He is represented with works in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich and in museums in Bristol, Rochdale, Milwaukee, Melbourne and Sydney. Heffner was a member of the “Breisgauer Fünfer” artists' association founded in Freiburg in 1899, which also included Hermann Dischler (chairman), Fritz Reiss, Carl Schuster and Ludwig Zorn. In earlier years he was also mentioned as a frequent dining companion of the Munich artist society "Allotria".
Heffner's work in the museum in the Kulturspeicher
The Würzburg Museum in the Kulturspeicher has the following paintings by the artist:
- At the Starnbergersee
- Seashore
- Dune landscape
- Grunewald landscape
- Sunset on the water , around 1880
- Dutch landscape (with windmill)
- Scottish high moor
- Ocean wave
- Forest path with forest workers and berry pickers , around 1890
- Italian woman at the well
- Italian landscape , around 1890
- Summer landscape
- Moorland , around 1880
- Houses on the river
- Backwater
In addition, the watercolor pencil drawing Ausfahrendes Fischerboot (1908) and a watercolor from 1895.
In the permanent exhibition (room 3) you can see the picture Italian landscape .
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Sunset over the river
On the bank
farm
Grove of trees on the riverside
Dutch river landscape during a thunderstorm
Old houses Windsor
Moorland with a flooded avenue
swell
- City archive of Würzburg , biographical folder, a. a. Extract from Mainfränkische Hefte , Issue 18 1954.
- Karl Bosl (Ed.): Bosls Bavarian Biography , Pustet, Regensburg 1983, p. 315f ( digitized at Bavarikon )
- Note on the auction of some Heffner works, Mainpost, October 21, 2014
- Heinrich Ragaller : On the art of the 19th and 20th centuries in Würzburg , in: 15 centuries Würzburg , ed. v. Heinz Otremba , Echter-Verlag , Würzburg 1979, pp. 353-373, p. 361 f.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heffner, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1927 |
| Place of death | Berlin |