Louis Coblitz

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Louis Coblitz, portrait by Eduard Magnus , 1845

Louis Coblitz (born June 8, 1814 in Mannheim ; † April 19, 1863 there ) was a German painter and draftsman.

biography

The paternal family originally comes from St. Goar and settled in Mannheim at the beginning of the 18th century. He was born the son of the flour dealer Andreas Coblitz (1783-1851) and his wife Elisabeth, née Schadt, whose father came from Groß-Gerau .

The boy showed an artistic talent at an early age and received lessons from the Mannheim court painter Theodor Leopold Weller (1802–1880). Under his influence he created his first portraits and genre paintings. In 1835 he got him a small scholarship from the Grand Duke Leopold of Baden to visit the Munich Art Academy , where he enrolled in November that year and stayed for a year.

In 1837 Louis Coblitz returned to his hometown and settled there in the square R 3, 1. Here he mainly worked as a portraitist. He had a special friendship with his older painter and architect Jakob Friedrich Dyckerhoff (1774–1845), who was also one of the first German daguerreotypists and who introduced Coblitz to this technique. In 1841 Coblitz went to Paris for further training , in 1845 to London , from where he returned to Mannheim in 1847; In 1856 he traveled to Italy . In 1861 the painter stayed with his friend Gideon von Camuzi in Dirmstein , where he made various landscape pictures, including a. the regionally significant painting "View of Dirmstein in the Palatinate with the von Camuzi'schen Castle " .

At the end of 1861, Grand Duke Friedrich I gave the ailing artist an apartment and studio in the west wing of Mannheim Palace . He moved in here with his two sisters and lived there until his death in April 1863. He died of a lung disease and was buried in the family grave in the main cemetery in Mannheim , where a new memorial was erected for him in 1984.

Many portraits of the upper class Mannheim society of the time have been preserved by Louis Coblitz, as well as landscapes, genre pictures and drawings.

Gallery of pictures of the painter

literature

  • Reiss Museum Mannheim : Coblitz, paintings and drawings . Exhibition catalog with biography, Mannheim 1984.
  • Support group of historical graves in Mannheim eV (Hrsg.): The cemeteries in Mannheim . Mannheim 1992, ISBN 3-87804-213-2 , p. 120.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Coblitz, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1863
Place of death Mannheim