Louis Henry Weston Sounder

Louis Henry Weston Klingender (born April 22, 1861 in Liverpool , † 1950 in Great Britain ) was a British animal and hunting painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Klingender, an Englishman born in Liverpool , published his career in 1898 in a self-portrait. So he came to Düsseldorf at the age of 15 to “complete his education”. Intercourse there with the Wislicenus family made him want to become a painter. In 1880, however, he returned to England to do an internship in a machine factory because he was supposed to be an engineer . With the aim of "depicting dramatic moments from the life of animals in the manner of Snyder , Landseer and Deikers " in mind, he returned to Düsseldorf in 1881, where the latter gave him a place as a student and assistant in until the beginning of the 1890s gave his private studio . During this time he traveled to Wernigerode several times . Thanks to the support of Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , he had the opportunity to study the life and hunting of red deer and wild boar in the forests around Wernigerode Castle . In 1892 he was able to continue these studies in Pless in Upper Silesia . He spent the year 1893 in southern Russia . There he could see saiga antelopes and "the immense migration of almost all European bird species". A return trip via Constantinople and the Mediterranean had a great influence on his artistic feeling. In 1894 he married Florence, the daughter of Düsseldorf alderman Theodor Friedrich Emil Hoette (1831-1917) and his British wife Emily, née Scelton (1835-1917). His father-in-law had worked as a merchant in Liverpool, the city of Klingen's birth, before joining.

The newlywed couple moved to Kronberg im Taunus . There it frequented the Kronberg painters' colony and the circle of painters Anton Burger and Adolf Schreyer . As early as the 1890s, Klingender achieved a certain level of awareness by participating in Berlin Academy exhibitions. He had other exhibitions in Bremen, Dresden, Düsseldorf and Magdeburg.

In 1902 the couple moved to Goslar in the Harz Mountains , where they lived in Georgenberg . Klingender set up his studio in the back building of a museum at 67 Breiten Strasse. The resin painter and poet Carl Reinecke-Altenau also received painting lessons there as a pupil of Klingers . In Goslar, Klingender was soon one of the personalities who promoted cultural life; he was active in scientific, musical, folklore and sports clubs. In 1907 the son Francis Donald was born in Goslar , who later became known as a Marxist sociologist and art historian. When the First World War broke out , Klingender was considered a potential British spy, and in 1914 he was interned in a camp near Berlin .

After the World War, animal pictures composed in the late romantic style were hardly in demand. In October 1928, the Klingers gave up their Goslar residence, which had last been at Claustorwall 26, and moved to England. Francis Donald, her son, had already moved to London on May 28, 1926 , after graduating from Goslar Gymnasium in 1925. In London, too, Klingener's paintings turned out to be unsaleable. The family lived in poverty and on the low income of their son, who worked during the day in an advertising agency and attended evening classes at the London School of Economics and Political Science until 1930 . In England, Klinger's wife Florence, who had been baptized as an Evangelical Protestant, converted to Catholicism ; soon afterwards the marriage was divorced and Florence returned to Germany, where she died in 1944. Louis Henry Weston Klingender died in Great Britain in 1950.

Works (selection)

• Eighteen-deer stag torn by wolves , 1891
• Resting deer , 1895
• Deer herd , 1899
• Two dachshunds fighting a fox , 1903
• Sauhatz , around 1909
• Best Friends , 1918
• Securing Fox , 1922
• Evening deer hunt on the abyss

literature

• Sounder, Louis Henry Weston . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 698.
• Hannelore Giesecke: You also lived in Goslar . Books on Demand, 2014, ISBN 978-3-73574-655-9 , Chapter 15 ( Google Books )
• August Wiederspahn: The Kronberg painter colony . Verlag Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1971, p. 76

Web links

• Louis Henry Weston Klingender , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
• Louis Henry Weston Klingender , auction results on the portal artnet.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt: On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 347, digitized
2. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, studies and stay in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 434.
3. ^ Self-presentation of Klingers in: Das Geistige Deutschland am Ende des XIX. Century . Volume 1: The visual artists . Leipzig / Berlin 1898
4. ↑ Klingender, F (rancis) D (onald) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Entry in the dictionaryofarthistorians.org portal , accessed on February 20, 2016 
5. ↑ Hannelore Giesecke: You also lived in Goslar . Books on Demand, 2014, ISBN 978-3-73574-655-9 , chapter 15.
6. ^ Sauhatz, approx. 1909 , website in the artnet.com portal , accessed on February 20, 2016