Olof Winkler

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Olof Alexander Winkler , also Olaf Winkler or Olof Winckler (born January 29, 1843 in Zschopenthal , Kingdom of Saxony , † September 26, 1895 in Dresden ), was a German landscape painter and illustrator .

Life

Olof Winkler was the son of the smeltery inspector and metallurgist Alexander Winkler , who headed the Zschopenthal blue paint factory until 1848 . An older brother of Olof was the future chemist Clemens Winkler . Olof's grandfather was the versatile metallurgist August Fürchtegott Winkler , who was also interested in painting . In 1848 the family moved to Niederpfannenstiel , where the father again ran a blue paint factory.

Olof Winkler first received lessons from private tutors, then he attended the grammar school in Plauen . After a brief apprenticeship with the Dresden lithographer Johann Anton Williard , he enrolled in art studies at the Dresden Art Academy . In 1864/65 he stayed in Rome , where he worked for the German Artists' Association . At the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar , he then became a student of Alexander Michelis , Stanislaus von Kalckreuth and Arnold Böcklin . In Weimar , where he lived as a painter for a while, he married Emmy, the daughter of the playwright Emil Palleske . The couple, who later divorced, had two sons and a daughter.

Frauenstein , illustration from the magazine Die Gartenlaube , 1889

In 1869 the family lived in Berlin , from 1870 to 1872 in Leipzig . Winkler stayed for a while to study in Paris . In 1874 he settled in Düsseldorf , then again in Weimar, and in 1883 in Dresden . There he was a member of the natural science society ISIS since 1888 . In 1891 he married Laura Alexandrine Hering, the daughter of a pastor emeritus from Meissen, for the second time. Winkler died after a progressive illness in “ uremic impotence” from the consequences of a “foot disorder” which he suffered as early as 1848 when he fell into the water and which had handicapped him for life.

Winkler became known for his views of landscapes from Upper Bavaria, Austria and Switzerland. But he also painted views in Saxony, Thuringia and on Rügen. He provided illustrations for the magazine Die Gartenlaube and other clients. For the Berlin company Urania at the end of the 1880s, under the direction of Wilhelm Kranz (1853–1930), he created stage sets with “natural scenes” or “landscapes over the periods of earth evolution” and “lunar landscapes” - large-format, stage-like representations that are today as Dioramas are called. As early as 1877 he appeared before the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors with his painterly attempt to "depict part of the moon in a landscape".

literature

Web links

Commons : Olof Winkler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Deutsche Städtebilder / Dresden  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reports of meetings and treatises of the Isis Natural Science Society in Dresden . Dresden, p. 37
  2. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 650
  3. ↑ Emilie "Emmy" Marie Palleske (* 1847 or 1850 in Oldenburg) married the Saxon Colonel Eduard Max von Engel (* 1834 in Dresden) in 1888 as a second marriage.
  4. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  5. ↑ Reports of meetings and treatises of the Isis Natural Science Society in Dresden. Born in 1895 . Dresden 1896, p. 37
  6. ↑ Alexander Gall: On the long way to the museum. Dioramas as commercial spectacles and media for imparting knowledge in the long 19th century . In: Alexander Gall, Helmuth Trischler (Ed.): Scenery and Illusion. History, variants and potentials of museum dioramas . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1798-7 , p. 47 ( Google Books )
  7. ^ Nic Leonhardt: Pictorial dramaturgy. Visual culture and theater in the 19th century (1869–1899) . transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-596-3 , p. 88 ( Google Books )
  8. ^ Official report of the 50th meeting of German naturalists and doctors in Munich from September 17 to 22, 1877 . Academic book printing by F. Straub, Munich 1877, p. 121 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Winkler, Olof
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winkler, Olof Alexander (full name); Winkler, Olaf; Winckler, Olof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Zschopenthal , Kingdom of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1895
Place of death Dresden