Richard Knötel
Richard Knötel (born January 12, 1857 in Glogau , † April 26, 1914 in Berlin ) was a German painter , lithographer and writer . He is considered one of the most important German history painters .
Life
Knötel was the son of the senior teacher, painter and writer Augustin Knötel. He received drawing lessons from his father , studied at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts from 1880 and dealt extensively with the history of the military. He worked as an illustrator for the magazines Illustrirte Zeitung , Daheim , Über Land und Meer and as a draftsman for the “Berlin Calendar” and the “Association for the History of Berlin”. Knötel illustrated many military works and published the treatise The Prussian Army from the Oldest Times to the Present (1883) and published a source work on uniform studies in 18 volumes. In 1888 he drew for the military picture book Die Kriegsheere Europa , which was written by Lieutenant Colonel a. d. Vogt was described. He was one of the founding members of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Heereskunde e. V.
Together with the history painter Carl Röchling , he also illustrated the two cherished children's books The Old Fritz in 50 Pictures for Young and Old (1895) and The Queen Luise in 50 Pictures for Young and Old (1896).
Starting in 1908, he delivered designs for Stollwerck collectors' pictures on behalf of the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck . a. for the Stollwerck scrapbooks No. 10 and 14.
Richard Knötel was buried in the St. Matthias cemetery in Berlin-Tempelhof . His son Herbert also became a painter and gained a name for himself as "Knötel, the Younger".
Fonts
- From the corner of the three empires . Historical-cultural episodes . Phönix-Verlag, Berlin, Breslau, Kattowitz 1911.
literature
- Susanna Partsch : Knötel, Richard . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 81, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023186-1 , p. 35.
- Curt Hoffmann: Army customer. The history painter Richard Knötel. in: visor. Issue 5/2014, pp. 78–83.
- Kurt-Gerhard Klietmann : Knötel, Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 206 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Knötel in the catalog of the German National Library
- biography
- Richard Knötel: The Iron Age one hundred years ago 1806-1813.
- Richard Knötel: Uniformkunde: Loose sheets on the development of the military costume ( Memento from January 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Rathenow 1890 (archive link)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The old Fritz in 50 pictures for young and old.
- ↑ Stollwerck scrapbook No. 10 heroes of the spirit and of the sword. Verlag Gebr. Stollwerck, Berlin, Pressburg, New York, 1908.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knötel, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German history painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glogau |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 1914 |
| Place of death | Berlin |