Joseph Molitor von Mühlfeld
Baron Joseph von Molitor von Mühlfeld (born July 21, 1855 at Westheim Palace near Augsburg , † June 24, 1890 in Munich ) was a German painter.
Life
Not much is known about his life. He came from a southern German family of officers and civil servants and was the youngest son of the royal Bavarian major and chamberlain Ernst Franz Freiherr Molitor von Mühlfeld (1808–1888) and his wife Caroline (1812–1870), née. of white. He grew up on the Schlossgut Westheim, a former diocese of the Diocese of Augsburg , which his father had acquired from his father-in-law von Weiß.
From 1873 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was a student of Wilhelm von Lindenschmit . Contemporaries he was considered a beautiful talent , which with just as decided talent as hard work ... aroused great expectations, but then got into extreme naturalism and plein-air painting .
Until his untimely death he mainly created genre scenes .
He was buried in a family grave in the Northern Cemetery in Munich.
Works
- Goatherd with kids
- Girl hanging laundry
- Young girl (112 × 61 cm), Munich, Neue Pinakothek (inv.no.8785)
- Interior of a chapel with prayers , also during prayer , Morning Prayers (63.5 × 82.6 cm)
- Kleiner Angler = (?) Master of all he surveys (1888, 139.7 × 104.1 cm)
In the devotional / Morning Prayers
Master of all he surveys
literature
- Friedrich Pecht : History of Munich Art in the Nineteenth Century. Munich 1888 digitized , p. 366
- Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of Visual Artists , Volume 25, Leipzig 1931, p. 39
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Date of birth according to Davide von Retberg: Friedhof-Notizen. In: monthly sheet of the Heraldisch-Genealogischen Verein "Adler" 3 (1895), p. 413-19, here p. 415; This is also the case in Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses , the year of birth 1856 , which is often found in literature, is therefore wrong
- ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses. 21 (1871), p. 459
- ^ Anton von Steichele: The Diocese of Augsburg: historically and statistically described. Volume 2, Augsburg: Schmid 1864, p. 65
- ↑ 02996 Joseph Fhr. Von Molitor, register book 1841-1884 , accessed April 10, 2012
- ↑ Pecht (lit.)
- ↑ Auctioned at Christie's New York on September 8, 2004 ( lot 259 )
- ↑ Part of the art collection of Haussner's Restaurant in Baltimore until 1999, auctioned at Sotheby’s on November 2, 1999
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Molitor von Mühlfeld, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Molitor von Mühlfeld, Joseph von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Westheim (Neusäß) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1890 |
| Place of death | Munich |