Paul Joseph Kiederich

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Paul Joseph Kiederich in his studio, painting Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Karl V , illustration by Wilhelm Camphausen in the book Schattenseiten der Düsseldorfer Maler , 1845

Paul Joseph Kiederich (born September 15, 1809 in Cologne , † April 4, 1850 in Düsseldorf ) was a German history and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

At the request of his wealthy parents, who died early, Kiederich attended the higher education institutions in his native Cologne. There he received his first drawing lessons from the painter Kuntze, who advised him to pursue a career as a painter because of his talent. Kiederich's relatives and guardians initially disagreed with this. However, he was allowed to learn from Matthias Joseph de Noël , an art-loving Cologne merchant, painter and carnivalist , in art history as well as in painting and drawing.

In 1832 Kiederich enrolled at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There the portrait and history painter Theodor Hildebrandt became his teacher and friend. In 1835, Kiederich was able to draw attention to himself with the painting of Emperor Karl V in St. Just , his first important historical picture . While drawing a portrait of Emperor Karl V , Wilhelm Camphausen portrayed him for the artist album Schattenseiten der Düsseldorfer Maler , which was printed in 1845 in the Wilhelm Severin lithography facility in Düsseldorf. A pupil of Kiederich was the British genre and portrait painter Philip Moravier Lindo . In a dispute that broke out among Düsseldorf artists in 1841 over the Kunstverein's exhibition policy for the Rhineland and Westphalia , Kiederich took an eloquent performance in a balancing position. In the same year he married an educated bourgeois daughter who soon fell ill and died in 1845 after she had given birth to two children, among them the later painter Paul Wilhelm Kiederich (1842–1921), father of Franz Kiederich and Ludwig Kiederich (1885–1929), both also painters from the Düsseldorf School. In the Carnival of 1846, Kiederich performed the picture Der Improvisator (L'Improvisateur) by Louis Léopold Robert as a tableau vivant with Anselm Feuerbach as the fisher boy in the General Association of Carnival Friends in Düsseldorf under the “presidency” of Adolph Schroedter .

In 1847 he was elected to the city council . On April 20, 1848, in the course of the German Revolution , Kiederich belonged to a committee of Düsseldorf artists that, after a “general assembly”, had published an appeal to all artists in Germany. In this appeal, it asked for support for a motion to the Frankfurt National Assembly that the Düsseldorf artists had submitted as a petition . This application contained the idea of ​​promoting German art as a national task and the idea of ​​establishing a national gallery. In the same year Kiederich was one of the founders of the Malkasten artists' association . Shortly before his death in 1850, Kiederich is said to have given up his distant attitude to the church, which he had taken all his life. He is said to have been converted by clergymen and given the anointing of the sick .

Works (selection)

  • Emperor Charles V in Saint-Just , 1835
  • The dying Maltese Grand Master La Valette admonishes the Knights of the Order , 1840
  • Portrait of Emperor Heinrich V in the Imperial Hall of the Frankfurt Roman , around 1840
  • Emperor Friedrich II and his chancellor Peter de Vincis , 1844
  • Portrait of Peter Fererius Cremer , 1846
  • Portraits of the Dukes Philip the Good and Charles the Bold of Burgundy and the Emperors Maximilian and Charles V for the Duke of Croÿ in Le Rœulx , 1847

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Joseph Kiederich in His Studio, Painting a Portrait of Emperor Charles V (Paul Joseph Kiederich in his studio, painting a portrait of the Emperor Charles V) , website in the portal havardartmuseums.org , accessed on May 27, 2016
  2. ↑ Margaret A. Rose: The comical inter-image in the German and English caricature of the 19th century . In: Guido Isekenmeier (Ed.): Interpictoriality. Theory and history of image-image relationships . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN p. 165, footnote 13 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ See appeal from Düsseldorf artists to the artists of Germany (Q22) - Gabriele Ewenz (compilation and processing): Sources for the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1825–1928 . 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. 406 f.
  4. ↑ Peter Fererius Cremer , object data sheet in the portal bildindex.de , accessed on May 27, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kiederich, Paul Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1850
Place of death Dusseldorf