Karl Weysser

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Karl Weysser

Karl Weysser , also Weyßer (born September 7, 1833 in Durlach , † March 28, 1904 in Heidelberg ), was a landscape and architecture painter from Baden .

Life

Karl Weysser was born in Durlach as the tenth and last child of the mayor Friedrich Wilhelm Weysser and his wife Caroline. He grew up in the center of the small town, in a house on the market square across from the town church and the town hall. From 1841 to 1848 he attended the high school in Durlach and then the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe , where he decided after the preparatory class for the mechanical-technical school branch. In 1853 he moved to Berlin to the Friedrich Wilhelms University. In 1855 he returned to Karlsruhe to study art at the newly founded Grand Ducal Baden Art School after completing his mathematical and technical studies . After the preparatory courses, Weysser specialized in architecture and landscape painting with Wilhelm Schirmer , and after his death with Hans Gude . Weysser completed his training in 1865, which included two longer stays in Munich in addition to other trips. Then he settled in Karlsruhe. In 1873 he turned to Düsseldorf , where he stayed until 1875 and lived with the painter Karl Ludwig Friedrich Wagner (1839–1923), who was also from Karlsruhe . From 1880 to 1884 he lived in Heidelberg , where he also published his first satirical work under the pseudonym KW Heisster , which was followed by two more in later years. Although his writings are predominantly satirical in nature, in the absence of any other written legacy they represent important sources on the painter's personality. In 1885 he married a much younger woman and moved to Baden-Baden , where he stayed until 1890. After two more changes of residence, he finally settled in Heidelberg in 1895, where he died in 1904.

plant

Möckmühl with city wall and castle, oil painting around 1870
Karl Weysser: View of Steigstrasse in Meersburg, 1904

Historical image sources

His work as a freelance artist includes around 600 oil paintings and studies , as well as over 3,000 architectural drawings . Due to his frequent changes of residence and his extensive travels through Baden , the Moselle , South Tyrol and Alsace , his motifs are not limited to just a few regions, but cover a wide range of regions. His main motifs were street scenes and rows of houses, which due to their realistic depiction are now used in many places as historical image sources. In his early works, Weysser shows in color especially by his teacher Wilhelm Schirmer affected.

Paintings (selection)

  • Mannenbach, landing stage on Lake Constance (1876)

Presence in auctions

  • Results from 92 auctions are documented on artnet.

Fonts

  • (as KW Heisster) To the members of the art association in Hutzelwaldberg
  • Through thick and thin - aesthetic and other considerations
  • Darwinism and modern painting in the mirror of a worldview that is as correct as possible

Exhibitions

literature

  • Benno Lehmann: Karl Weysser (1833–1904). Baden architecture and landscape painter. Monograph and catalog raisonné. Galeria Palatina et al., Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-932204-01-8 , (also: Heidelberg, Univ., Diss., 1996).
  • Benno Lehmann: Eberbach in oil paintings and drawings by the Baden architecture and landscape painter Karl Weysser , in: Eberbacher Geschichtsblatt 1989 , Eberbach 1989, pp. 146–163.
  • City of Neckargemünd (Ed.): Neckargemünd and the lower Neckar valley in views by Karl Weysser , Neckargemünd 1988

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  2. ↑ Auctioned pictures at artnet
personal data
SURNAME Weysser, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weyßer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden landscape and architecture painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Durlach
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1904
Place of death Heidelberg