Lorenz Vogel

Lorenz Vogel (born August 10, 1846 in Göggingen near Krauchenwies, † November 8, 1902 in Munich ) was a German painter .

Life

Lorenz Vogel was born on August 10, 1846, the sixth child of master bricklayer Gabriel Vogel and his wife Cäcilie, nee Schlegel, in Göggingen, and grew up with eight siblings. In 1860, at the age of not even fourteen, Lorenz Vogel played the flute, clarinet and trumpet in the dance band led by his brother Max. Later he also mastered the instruments piano, violin and zither.

Around 1862 he began his apprenticeship with a decoration and flat painter in Ravensburg . He also attended a private drawing school. Around 1865 he was a painter's assistant and drawing student at the trade school in Constance . Around 1867 he went on a hike through Switzerland and worked as a painter and musician in dance bands. In 1870 he had an exhibition in a painting shop in Karlsruhe . He also attended evening classes at the arts and crafts school. Between 1871 and 1874 he studied at the Karlsruhe Art Academy with Ferdinand Keller .

During this time he maintained a friendship with his compatriot and painter Hans Thoma from Baden . In 1875 he received a travel grant and his journey took him to the artist city of Paris . From 1875 he had alternating stays in Munich, Stuttgart and Konstanz, where he worked as a portrait painter . In 1879 he had a one-year stay in Italy with the help of an impressive scholarship , in 1880 he returned to Constance and fell seriously ill there in the same year. When painting the cloister in the Insel-Hotel in Konstanz, Vogel did not get a chance.

In 1881 he married Laura Göring, daughter of the lawyer Dr. Göring from Baden-Baden , the marriage has three sons. Also in 1881 he and his wife moved to Munich. Commissions from the Hanfstängel art institute and from Haus Wittelsbach followed, among others. In Munich he also succeeded in connecting with the royal court, where he portrayed the Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria , among others .

From 1882 he had residencies and commissioned work in Munich, Regensburg , Augsburg , Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Constance. This enabled him to make frequent visits to his home village of Göggingen. Kempf reports that, according to Max Vogel, around 60 pictures were taken in Konstanz alone. Among these was the portrait of the young Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin . Vogel died on November 8, 1902 in Munich.

Works

• Portrait of master miller Dominikus Ott († 1897). Oil on canvas. 58 × 46 cm. Private property in Göggingen
• Madonna. Oil on canvas. Restored in 1995 by Mrs. Teppert, Heidelberg. Owner: Catholic parish of Göggingen
• Portrait of Josef Anton Ritter, Markdorf. Vogel's brother's father-in-law. Oil on canvas. 66 × 58 cm. Privately owned.
• Portrait of Maria Josepha Ritter, geb. Erne, Markdorf. Mother-in-law of Lorenz Vogel's brother. Oil on canvas. 66 × 58 cm. Privately owned.
• Portrait of Maria Vogel, b. Knight. Lorenz Vogel's sister-in-law. Oil on canvas. 66 × 52.5 cm. Privately owned.
• Portrait of Felzin Vogel. Brother of Lorenz Vogel. Pencil drawing. 20 × 16 cm. Lower right: Vogel o. J. private property.
• Portrait of a man. Oil on wood. 46 × 37 cm. Lower right: Vogel o. J. private property.
• The five children of the Freytag family. Oil on canvas. 88 × 109 cm (1880). Owner: Stuttgart City Archives. History: The picture came into the possession of the city archives on September 27, 1997
• Portrait of the Baden gendarmerie major Ferdinand Horchler. Oil on canvas. 64 × 53 cm (with frame: 95 × 84 cm). Lower right: L. Vogel 1879. Owner: Military History Museum Raststatt. History: The picture shows the officer Ferdinand Horchler as major of the Grand Ducal Baden Gendarmerie and commanding officer of District I. Horchler was from 1866 to 1890 in the Gendarmerie Corps from Rittmeister to Colonel. Acquired by the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe in 1937 as a gift from the sitter's son, Dr. Horchler, Berlin. In the same year the picture was handed over to the Badische Army-Museum Karlsruhe, now the Military History Museum Raststatt.
• Portrait of Colonel Ferdinand Horchler, b. Daampart from Liverpool. Oil on canvas. 65 × 54 cm. Description lower right: l. Vogel 1879. Owner: Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. History: The mother of the depicted was a born Gladstone, cousin of the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. Acquired by the Kunsthalle in 1937 as a gift from the sitter's son, Dr. Horchler, Berlin.
• The artist's parents on the day of their golden wedding anniversary: ​​Gabriel Vogel, Maurer (1810-1894) and zzilia b. Schlegel (1811-1895). Oil on wood. 88 × 102.5 cm. Marked bottom right: L. Vogel (year no longer legible); right above: Aetatis S. Lxx around 1880. Owner: Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. History: Exhibitions: Akademie Berlin 1880, cat. No. 710; International Art Exhibition Munich 1883, p. 151, cat. No. 2107; Kunstverein Karlsruhe, 1907; Acquired in 1907 by the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe from the heirs of the painter Th. Schüz. The identification of the picture with the picture “Golden Wedding Couple” mentioned in 1880 or 1883 by the Kunsthalle is not clear. The reference “Aetatis S. Lxx” could refer to the age of the father or the mother.
• The creation of Beethoven's “Moonlight Sonata”. “The composing Beethoven” or “Beethoven at the piano”. Probably oil on canvas. 82 × 65 cm (1886). Whereabouts unknown. History: A reproduction of the picture was published in 1896 in the magazine “Gartenlaube”, No. 25. According to Kempf, the picture was sold to America.
• Portrait of a boy in uniform. Oil on canvas. Labeled L. Vogel 1893. Owner: Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz, inv. No. 84/380. History: The picture was donated to the Wessenberg Gallery in 1963. The previous owner can no longer be determined.
• Portrait of Countess Louise Douglas b. Countess von Langenstein (1825-1900). Oil on canvas. 1901. Owner: Axel Graf Douglas zu Langenstein.
• Portrait of Count Karl Israel Douglas (1824-1898). Oil on canvas. 1880. Owner: Axel Graf Douglas zu Langenstein.
• Portrait of Frederic Chopin. Oil on canvas. 87 × 66 cm (1889). History: Change of ownership at a Michael Zeller auction on December 6, 1996.
• Portrait of Kronenwirt Josef Jäger from Göggingen. Private ownership of the Jaeger family
• Portrait of Katharina Jäger, b. Kugler, Kronen landlady in Göggingen. Private ownership of the Jaeger family
• Portrait of Anton Jäger, Adler host in Göggingen. Private ownership of the Jaeger family

Lost paintings

• Georg Friedrich Handel, portrait of a youth
• Felix Medelsohn-Bartholdy, half-length portrait, 1889
• Joseph Haydn, 1890
• Frédéric Chopin, 1890
• Prince Ludwig of Bavaria
• Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria
• Portrait of a son of Duke Karl Theodor in Bavaria
• Orphaned
• Bank director Schirmeister, Constance
• Miss Dr. Gagg, Messkirch
• The artist's parents
• Main teacher Jakob Vetter, Göggingen
• The daughter of the main teacher Vetter in Göggingen
• Graf Zeppelin, Constance

literature

• Hohenzollerische Volkszeitung Sigmaringen. March 19, 1881.
• Visual arts magazine. 18, 1883, p. 549.
• Visual arts magazine. 21, 1886, p. 280.
• Vogel, Lorenz. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, pp. 936-937 ( archive.org ).
• Yearbook of Fine Arts. 1903, p. 110.
• Upper Baden border messenger Meßkirch. February 7, 1903.
• Konstanz newspaper. March 4, 1903.
• Adolf von Oechelhäuser : History of the Grossh. Baden Academy of Fine Arts. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the foundation festival in 1904. Braun Verlag, Karlsruhe 1904, p. 169 ( digitized version ).
• Vogel, Lorenz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 485 .
• Jan Lauts, Werner Zimmermann: Catalog of new masters 19th and 20th centuries. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe 1971, pp. 286, 494.
• Gustav Kempf: The Gögginger village book. Written for his homeland. Community of Göggingen. Göggingen 1971, pp. 340–342, plates 29–32.
• Franz Götz, Alois Beck: Castle and rule Langenstein in Hegau. Association for the history of the Hegau, Singen / Htw. 1972, pp. 282f., Figs. 75-76.
• Horst Ludwig (Hrsg.): Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 4 Saffer-Zwengauer. Bruckmann, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7654-1804-8 .
• Armin Heim: The Göggingen painter Lorenz Vogel (1846-1902). In: Meßkircher Heimathefte. Volume 9, Issue 3, 2003, pp. 45-47.
• Armin Heim: Two brothers make history. Lorenz and Max Vogel. Commissioned by the Krauchenwies community in the hundredth year of the artist's death in 2002. Messkirch 2002. In a commemorative publication by the Krauchenwies / Göggingen community on the 150th anniversary of the Göggingen Music Association. Messkirch 2004. pp. 1-11

Web links

Commons : Lorenz Vogel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files