Karl Martini (painter)

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Karl Anton Martini (born April 18, 1796 in Biberach an der Riss ; † January 6, 1869 there ) was a German genre painter .

biography

family

Martini was a son of the Biberach surgeon Joseph Xaver Alexius Martini and his second wife Maria Carolina, nee. Zinc. This marriage gave birth to ten children, of whom Eberhard Karl , Ferdinand Candidus and Ludwig Sebastian Martini became famous as doctors . Two other brothers, the businessman Karl Clemens Martini and the dyer Friedrich Martini founded an industrial company for textile finishing .

Oriental costume design (partly watercolored pen drawing)

Life

The Biberach genre painter and drawing teacher Johann Baptist Pflug recognized Martini's artistic talent and gave him lessons. Martin later attended the Royal Württemberg United Art, Real and Commercial School in Stuttgart, which was opened in 1829 .

Martini, who lived with his brother, the soap maker and goods dealer Joseph Martini, in Biberach, initially devoted himself to painting animals . Genre pieces were only occasionally created at this time . He is therefore often considered an animal painter.

He found his field of activity as a commissioned painter in Biberach. He supplied the Biberacher Markt with small-format portraits , houses, landscapes and hunting pictures. Martini tried to differentiate himself stylistically from his teacher. His genre scenes show a considerable modernity for his time, but this was not sufficiently appreciated by the Biberach audience. In order to earn a living, he therefore had to take on tasks that were below his artistic level and could not step out of the shadow of his teacher, Pflug, throughout his life. A considerable part of his, often unsigned work has probably been lost.

Exhibitions

  • December 1969 - January 1970: "Franz Xaver Müller and Karl Martini" in the Braith-Mali-Museum , Municipal Collections, Marktplatz 7/1, 88400 Biberach.

literature

  • Julius Baum / Werner Fleischhauer / Stina Kobell : Swabian art in the 19th and 20th centuries. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1952, p. 120.
  • Hans-Otto Binder / Dieter Stievermann: History of the city of Biberach. Verlag Theiss, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 978-3-8062-0564-0 , p. 153.
  • Max Flad: Augsburg business captains who came from Upper Swabia. In: Zeit und Heimat from December 15, 1983. Supplement to the Schwäbische Zeitung. Edition Biberach an der Riss. Special print . Volume 26, No. 3.  Digitized version
  • Idis B. Hartmann: The ”Biberacher School”. Johann Baptist Pflug and his students. In: Society for home care in the city and district of Biberach. Local history sheets for the Biberach district from June 15, 1988. Volume 11, No. 1. Verlag Gesellschaft für Heimatpflege, Biberach 1988, pp. 3 ff. Digitized
  • Stefan Ott (Ed.): Oberschwaben. Face of a landscape. Verlag O. Maier, Ravensburg 1972, ISBN 978-3-4734-3555-5 , p. 217 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Idis B. Hartmann: The ”Biberacher School”. Johann Baptist Pflug and his students . In: Local history sheets for the Biberach district from June 15, 1988 . Vol. 11, No. 1 . Verlag Gesellschaft für Heimatpflege, Biberach 1988, p. 3 ff .
  2. ↑ Max Flad: Augsburg business captains who came from Upper Swabia . In: Zeit und Heimat from December 15, 1983. Supplement to the Schwäbische Zeitung. Edition Biberach an der Riss. Special print . Volume 26, No. 3 . Society for Home Care, Biberach 1983, p. 55 ff .
personal data
SURNAME Martini, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martini, Karl Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberach an der Riss
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1869
Place of death Biberach an der Riss