Carl Ludwig Frommel

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Portrait of Carl Ludwig Frommel
Carl Ludwig Frommel: Salem Palace , after 1807
Connections London - Karlsruhe: Engraving by H. Winkles sculp , published in London in 1832 by Tombleson & Co .; in Karlsruhe by Creuzbauer & Co.
Near Karlsruhe

Carl Ludwig Frommel (* 29. April 1789 at Schloss Birkenfeld (Nahe) ; † 6. February 1863 in Ispringen in Pforzheim , Baden ) was a German artist , painter , engraver , copper and steel engraver , who especially for his landscape paintings was known .

Life

Carl Ludwig Frommel was born as the third child of the master builder and architect Wilhelm Frommel (1759–1837) and Sophia Magdalena Schneider (1766–1804). From 1805 he studied painting and copperplate engraving in Karlsruhe . His teachers were Philipp Jakob Becker and the court engraver Christian Haldenwang . In 1809 he traveled to Paris. There Empress Joséphine commissioned him to create a twelve-part cycle of large-format landscape watercolors .

From 1812 Frommel stayed in Italy . Until 1817 he lived in Rome , where he moved around the Nazarenes . He toured Sicily with the up-and-coming young architects Friedrich von Gärtner and Joseph Daniel Ohlmüller . In the summer of 1817 he accompanied his painter friends Ferdinand and Friedrich Olivier , Johann Christian Rist and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld on a trip through the Salzburg region . Then Frommel returned to Karlsruhe.

On his return, at the age of 28, he was appointed professor of painting and engraving in Karlsruhe . The Art and Industry Association for the Grand Duchy of Baden , founded in 1818, was one of its founding members.

During a study visit to London in 1824, Frommel acquired the new technique of steel engraving : in 1820 Charles Heath first published illustrative steel engravings in England , which were already very popular there. After his return, Frommel and the Englishman Henry Winkles , who also worked for William Tombleson (also in London), opened a studio for engravers in Karlsruhe in 1824, the first of its kind in Germany.

On April 19, 1826 he married Jeanne Henriette Gambs (1801-1865) in Strasbourg (2nd marriage ), she became the mother of the sons named below. Her father was the pastor Christian Carl Gambs .

From 1829 - that year Johann Poppel learned the art of steel engraving from him - until his age-related retirement in 1858, Frommel was also director of the Grand Ducal Picture Gallery . The new building of the modern State Art Gallery (planned by Heinrich Hübsch , completed in 1847) was built under his leadership . After his retirement he retired to Baden-Baden .

Sons and relatives

Carl Ludwig Frommel had an adopted son and three biological sons:

Other relatives are:

his uncle Eduard Frommel (1761–1824), chief auditor in Karlsruhe, father of:

Works

Picturesque Italy , 1840
Landscape near Meran

Carl Ludwig Frommel mainly produced landscape paintings .

An important part of his work are views of landscapes and monuments in his adopted home Baden , many of which appeared for the first time in popular pictorial representations:

  • Carlsruhe in picturesque views / by C. Frommel. In addition to a historical-topographical description by A. Schreiber / Carlsruhe 1827 (reprint 1983: ISBN 3-7650-9021-2 )
  • 50 pictures for Virgil's Aeneide / Gest. under d. Leitg v. C Frommel / Aug. Klose and C. Frommel / Carlsruhe 1828
  • 30 pictures of Horace's works / Gest. under d. Leitg v. C Frommel after drawing by v. Catel , Frommel etc. / Carlsruhe, Kunstverlag , around 1830
  • The picturesque and romantic Rhineland: Engravings for Karl Simrock 's work of the same name; Printed from the original plates ; multi-part work from 3 portfolios by C. Frommel, T. Verhas and Alt, Leipzig (no year), according to DNB around 1840 (reprint 1975: ISBN 3-487-08100-8 )
  • Picturesque views of Baden and its surroundings / by Professor Frommel. With a historical-topographical description by Hofrath Schreiber ; Marx; Karlsruhe, Baden; 1843 (Reprint 1979: ISBN 3-88379-098-2 )

Frommel's romantic vedutas of Greece and Italy , which at that time were the epitome of bourgeois aspirations, were popular. Meyer's Konversationslexikon from 1888 judges Frommel's work:

“His landscapes are soulful, full of grace and delicate fragrance. (...) His engravings are characterized by a characteristic conception and a powerful yet delicate execution. The best are: Ariccia near Rome , view from the Villa d'Este from Tivoli , a landscape with goats and fluting shepherds (after Claude Lorrain ), view of Vesuvius from the Elysean Fields, view of Etna from Taormina , six original etchings : Landscapes with staffage. "

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In: William Tombleson 's "Views of the Rhine", French edition digitized z. Partly with full text research by dilibri Rhineland-Palatinate [1]
  2. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 192
  3. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. , Verlag von EA Fleischmann, Munich 1835-1852, Vol. 4, pp. 509ff.
  4. ↑ found in the edition of the same name by Karl Simrock

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personal data
SURNAME Frommel, Carl Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frommel, Karl Ludwig; Frommel, Karl FE; Frommel, Karl L .; Frommel, Karl; Frommel, K .; Frommel, Carl L .; Frommel, Carl; Frommel, C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Painter, engraver, steel engraver, eraser
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Birkenfeld (Nahe) , Rhineland-Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1863
Place of death Ispringen near Pforzheim , Baden-Württemberg