Karl Lindemann-Frommel

View of the city of Potsdam from the Brauhausberg , 1861, Potsdam Museum

Vignettes from Rome (1846?)

Karl August Lindemann-Frommel (born August 19, 1819 in Markirch , Upper Alsace , † May 16, 1891 in Rome ) was a landscape painter and lithographer .

Life

Karl Lindemann was born in Alsace as the fourth child of the married couple Karl August Philipp Lindemann (1776–1828) and Catharina Philippina Frommel (1787–1841). His father, a factory owner, died when Karl was nine years old. His uncle Carl Ludwig Frommel , who was professor of painting and copperplate engraving and director of the Grand Ducal Picture Galleries in Karlsruhe, took over custody . With Frommel, who later adopted him , Lindemann learned the profession of artist. His second influential teacher was Carl Rottmann .

From 1844 to 1849, Lindemann traveled to Italy , which would later become his adopted home. In Rome in 1845 he became a founding member of the German Art Association . He met Karl Christian Andreae , who was four years his junior , and encouraged him to study Italian landscapes. He later lived in Munich and Paris , where he deepened his oil painting . On November 25, 1851, he married Auguste Luise Karoline Freiin von Racknitz (1826–1876) in Heinsheim , Baden . His son Manfred Lindemann-Frommel was born in Munich in 1852 , inherited the talent and profession of his father and later became a marine painter , architect and art professor.

In 1856 Karl Lindemann-Frommel settled in Rome, where he was appointed professor at the Academy of San Luca . He lived and worked in Rome until his death in 1891 .

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A large number of landscape drawings , lithographs, oil paintings and watercolors by Lindemann-Frommel have survived . In the 19th century he was considered one of the best German landscape painters, who has been compared to an Oswald Achenbach . However, Lindemann's work was never considered groundbreaking or particularly influential, which is why it is almost forgotten today.

Meyer's Konversationslexikon from 1888 reports on Lindemann:

"As a fruit of his (...) studies (in Italy) he published a series of views of Rome , Naples , Florence , etc. in some colored lithographs (Leipz. 1851 et seq.), Which in 1858 lithographed sheets based on motifs from the Pontine Marshes and 24 sheets of Potsdam views (should follow). (...) The most important of his romantically conceived, coloristically shiny oil paintings are: Klosterhof in Albano , La Spezia (art gallery in Karlsruhe), Villa Mattei , beach of Viareggio , from Capri , on Lake Nemisee , the imperial palaces in Rome, Rocca di Papa , Villa Melini in the Campagna . He also drew illustrations for the woodcut (e.g. for "Capri" by Gregorovius ). "

The painter's extensive estate has been in the possession of the Martin von Wagner Museum at the University of Würzburg since 2003 .

literature

• Lindemann-Frommel, Karl in: Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of Fine Artists , Volume 23, Leipzig 1929, p. 240.
• Peter KW joy: Karl Lindemann-Frommel. A painter's life in Rome. Monograph with catalog raisonné of his graphic and painterly work. 2nd Edition. P. Joy, Murnau am Staffelsee 1997. ISBN 3-00-001140-4 .

Web links

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

• Literature by and about Karl Lindemann-Frommel in the catalog of the German National Library