Oskar Kleineh

Oskar Kleineh , photo from the 1890s

Oskar Konrad Kleineh , also spelled Oscar Conrad Kleineh (born September 18, 1846 in Helsinki , Grand Duchy of Finland , Russian Empire ; † November 16, 1919 ibid), was a Finnish marine , landscape and vedute painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Kleineh was the son of the merchant Louis Gabriel Kleineh (1808–1874), who was born in Rietberg in Westphalia , and his wife Maria Kristina Forsell. The couple had nine children. The father, Louis Kleineh, had moved to Helsinki in 1840, where he first made a career as a finance manager and then as a hotelier . In Helsinki he built hotels and other dining facilities, including the Hôtel de Saint-Pétersbourg .

Oskar, his son, attended the drawing school of the Finnish Art Association from 1863 to 1864, where he made his debut in an exhibition in 1866. From 1866 to 1867 he stayed in Düsseldorf and attended the Royal Prussian Art Academy . There were Andreas Müller and Heinrich Lauenstein his most important teacher. Until 1870 he then took lessons with Hans Fredrik Gude , who at that time had already left the Düsseldorf Art Academy and taken up the directorate of the Grand Ducal Baden Art School in Karlsruhe . There too, fellow countryman Hjalmar Munsterhjelm Kleineh was classmate. In the summer of 1870, Kleineh was the first Finnish artist to travel to Brittany . From 1870 to 1874 he stayed in Saint Petersburg , where he attended the Russian Art Academy and took lessons from the marine painter and Achenbach student Alexej Bogolyubov . Besides France (Brittany and Paris ), Kleineh traveled to Norway and Spain . Together with Maria Wiik (1853-1928) he was a teacher in 1881 at the drawing school of the Finnish Art Association. Kleineh is considered to be the most important marine painter in Finnish art history. He is also considered to be the first Finnish painter to use the camera as a tool for painting.

Works (selection)

Market square in Vitré , 1877

Tyven , 1890s

Sailing ship on the rocky coast

Kleineh's oeuvre is influenced by the late Romantic landscape painting of the Düsseldorf School as well as by Bogoljubow's marine painting and by Dutch masters , such as the painting Willem van de Velde the Younger . In addition to his seascapes and coastal landscapes, his detailed and realistically executed cityscapes became famous. He prepared his paintings in detail using watercolors and photographs on site in order to then carry them out in the studio .

• Market square in Vitré , 1877,
• Kalastusalus navakassa tuulessa , 1890s
• Tyven , 1890s
• Iltahetki saaristossa , 1900s
• Sailing ship on the rocky coast
• Calm day at sea
• By the sea (På stranden)

literature

• Kleineh, Oskar . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 14 : Kikarskten – Kroman . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1911, Sp. 236 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• Oskar Kleineh . 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. 451 .
• Kaj Martin: Oscar Kleineh, 1846–1919: på resa med Oscar Kleineh . Publisher of the Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki 2003, ISBN 978-952-9531-48-6

Web links

Commons : Oskar Kleineh  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bengt von Bonsdorff: Kleineh, Oscar . Biography in the portal uppslagsverket.fi
• Oscar Conrad Kleineh . Data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
• Oskar Conrad Kleineh . Auction results in the portal artnet.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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
2. ↑ Bengt von Bonsdorff: Kleineh, Oscar . ( Memento of the original from February 19, 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. Biography in the portal uppslagsverket.fi (Uppslagsverket Finland); Retrieved February 19, 2016 
3. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 146
4. ↑ Kleineh, Oskar . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 14 : Kikarskten – Kroman . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1911, Sp. 236 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).