Karl Hoff (painter, 1838)

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Carl Hoff, 1884, drawn by Christian Wilhelm Allers

Karl Heinrich Hoff , also Carl Heinrich Hoff the Elder (born September 8, 1838 in Mannheim , † May 13, 1890 in Karlsruhe ), was a German painter and art writer .

Karl Heinrich Hoff, photo by Arnold Overbeck , Gebr. G. & A. Overbeck in Düsseldorf
Karl Hoff: Cinderella

life and work

Karl Hoff was born in September 1838 as the son of a pastry chef. From 1855 to 1858 he studied at the Karlsruhe Art School under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Ludwig des Coudres . In the summer of 1858 Hoff followed the call of the Düsseldorf School of Painting and moved to Düsseldorf to continue his studies under Benjamin Vautier's guidance.

In 1862 he spent half a year in Paris. A series of study trips to Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Dalmatia and Montenegro followed and broadened his horizons and, after setting up his own business in Düsseldorf in 1862, helped to make a name for himself with a number of serious and cheerful genre pictures . He liked to paint compositions with costume figures, which were characterized by happy invention, pleasing coloring, fine characteristics and elegant treatment.

Karl Hoff, a very active member of the artists' association Malkasten , was president of the General Association of Carnival Friends in Düsseldorf (AVdK) from 1870 to 1872 . Hoff was also active as a poet. A number of seals, u. a. of those for the Kaiserfest in the Malkasten in Düsseldorf in 1877, he wrote the festival in honor of Kaiser Wilhelm I with tableaux vivants on the occasion of his visit to the Malkasten-Haus . In 1878 he wrote the comical epic “Schein”, a sketchbook in verse. Hoff got involved in the private initiative Zoopark , for which a public limited company was founded in 1874 by the animal welfare association Fauna . The private initiative wanted to ensure that, in addition to the construction activities in Düsseldorf, the parks were not neglected.

During the summer of 1878 Hoff was appointed professor at the Karlsruhe Academy, as the successor to Wilhelm Riefstahl, who had moved to Munich . There he bought a house at Oststrasse 34, which he later sold to the history and portrait painter Heinrich Johann Sinkel . Hoff's students included Hans Bachmann in Düsseldorf and Alexander Koester , Julius Fehr and the history painter Carl Becker in Karlsruhe . His brochure “Artists and Art Writers” from 1882 contained violent attacks against art criticism. He distinguished himself as a highly skilled arranger when in 1886 he ordered the great historical pageant for the 500th anniversary celebration of Heidelberg University.

He died on May 13, 1890 at the age of 51, after only a short illness of pulmonary consumption .

family

He was married to Marie Sohn (1841-1893), daughter of the painter Karl Ferdinand Sohn . They had several sons. His eldest son was the portrait and genre painter of the same name Karl Heinrich Hoff , hence also called Carl Heinrich Hoff the Younger . The son Ernst Hoff (1872-1932) was the association manager of the Northwestern Group of the Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists ("Arbeitnordwest") in Düsseldorf. His eldest sister Ernestine Hoff (1832–1880), married Dietzsch, was a writer. She wrote under the name "Diethoff".

Works (selection)

  • Gypsies before the local governor , 1860
  • The angular lawyer , 1863
  • Nobles oblige
  • The sick squire
  • The Epicurean Sea
  • Sub pink
  • Rest on the run , 1867 (in the possession of Mr. von Tiele-Winckler in Berlin),
  • The Homecoming , 1869, Philadelphia Gallery
  • Tartüff and Emire , 1872 (was reproduced as a copper engraving)
  • Dear uncle , 1873
  • The baptism of the next-born in 1875, in the National Gallery in Berlin
  • The son's last greeting , 1878, Dresden gallery
  • Before the march
  • Between fiefdom and death , 1886, Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe

Illustrations (selection)

Publications

  • Artists and Art Writers: An Act of Self-Defense. Stroeser, Munich 1882.

Honors

  • Honorary member of the Rotterdam Academy
  • Small gold medal Berlin, 1872
  • Bavarian Cross of Merit, 1872
  • Bronze Medal London, 1887
  • Great Melbourne Gold Medal, 1888/1889
  • In Karlsruhe, Hoffstrasse in the Weststadt has been named since 1896 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Hoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Hoff, Maler, Oststrasse 34 , in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf for 1873
  2. ^ Heinrich Johann Sinkel, Oststrasse 34, Düsseldorf , address book of the Lord Mayor's Office Düsseldorf 1889
  3. ^ Lutz Hatzfeld: Ernst Hoff , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 9 (1972), p. 382 f., Accessed on October 24, 2015
  4. ↑ Personal register: Ernestine Diethoff  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, accessed on August 9, 2015@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dla-marbach.de  
personal data
SURNAME Hoff, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoff, Karl Heinrich (full name); Hoff, Carl; Hoff, Carl Heinrich; Hoff the elder, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1890
Place of death Karlsruhe