Ludwig Adam Kelterborn

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Ludwig Adam Kelterborn (* 15. February 1811 in Hannover , † 6. June 1878 in Basel ) was a from Germany originating Swiss genre painter and caricaturist.

Born as the son of the shoemaker Friedrich Kelterborn, he married Augusta Margaretha Märklin in 1839. Kelterborn intended to study painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden , but after the death of his father was forced to choose the profession of designer of textiles for material reasons . From 1828 to 1831, he was in the Indienne -Textilfabrik in Mulhouse operates.

In 1831 he moved to Basel, where he taught as a drawing teacher at the drawing school from 1835 and at the city schools from 1837. One of his students was the later sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth . In addition to his educational activities, he created numerous genre paintings under the influence of the Nazarenes and Hieronymus Hess . He published his political cartoons in the 1830s.

Wolfgottesacker cemetery in Basel

Ludwig Adam Kelterborn was married to Auguste, née Märklin (1816–1894). Like his sons Gustav (1841–1908) and Julius (1857–1915), he found his final resting place in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery in Basel.

literature

Daniel Burckhardt – Werthemann: The political caricature of old Basel . Basel 1903
Daniel Burckhardt: Kelterborn, Ludwig Adam . In: Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon Volume 2, Frauenfeld 1908, pp. 165–166 ( Internet Archive ).
Kelterborn, Ludwig Adam . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 131 .
Kelterborn, Ludwig Adam . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 80, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023185-4 , p. 43.

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Adam Kelterborn - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Kelterborn, Ludwig Adam. In: Sikart (as of 2019)
Tapan Bhattacharya: Ludwig Adam Kelterborn. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

↑ Stefan Hess : Between Winckelmann and Winkelried. The Basel sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth (1818–1891). Berlin 2010, p. 19, ISBN 978-3-86805-954-0 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kelterborn, Ludwig Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss genre painter and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 15, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	June 6, 1878
Place of death	Basel

[1] Stefan Hess : Between Winckelmann and Winkelried. The Basel sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth (1818–1891). Berlin 2010, p. 19, ISBN 978-3-86805-954-0 .