Robert Trout

Johann Robert Peter Jakob Forell (born April 27, 1858 in Bockenheim , † May 18, 1927 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter.

Life

Saint Florian , glass mosaic by Robert Forell on the town hall tower, Frankfurt am Main, 1902

First he became a student of the drawing teacher Heinrich Hasselhorst at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main . In 1874 he stayed for the first time, together with his painter friend German Grobe , at the Haase Inn in Willingshausen , a meeting place for the Willingshausen painters' colony . Troell met u. a. on Hermann Sondermann and Fritz Sonderland , on Werner Leineweber and Adolf Lins from the Düsseldorf School of Painting . At the Städelschule in 1875 he switched to Professor Eduard Jakob von Steinle's class , where he stayed until 1880. He then moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1880 to 1887 Wilhelm Sohn , Carl Ernst Forberg , Eduard Gebhardt and Julius Roeting were his teachers there. During this time he also undertook study trips to Holland , Switzerland and Italy .

The death of Count Ernst von Mansfeld , steel engraving based on an oil painting by Robert Forell, Die Gartenlaube (1891), owned by the Krefeld Museumsverein

Robert Forell's grave slab

From 1891 he settled in Frankfurt am Main again and, as a representative of the romantic direction, worked primarily as a history and genre painter, later also as a landscape painter. He was a member of the Frankfurt Artists' Society and took over its chairmanship in 1902. He was the III. Class of the Royal Prussian Crown Order awarded.

Robert Forell's grave slab in the "new" Bockenheimer cemetery on Ginnheimer Landstrasse is part of the elaborate total work of art of the Knodt-Forell-Kramer family burial site, made by the Bockenheimer fine art foundry Knodt AG, which went under in 1930.

Works (selection)

Watercolor as a gift of honor from the city of Frankfurt am Main on Bismarck's 80th birthday
Self-portrait
Glass mosaic Saint Florian on the " Langer Franz " tower of the new town hall in Frankfurt am Main, 1902
Portrait of Johann Hartmann Beyer (1563–1625), mathematician, physician, natural scientist, 1907
Bathers by moonlight , 1858, 42 cm × 30 cm, oil on canvas / painting board
The armed man, knight in front of the castle walls , 1926, 96 × 119 cm, oil on canvas

literature

Trout, Robert . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 207 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ See nos. 3594–3602 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Trout, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Forell, Johann Robert Peter Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 27, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bockenheim
DATE OF DEATH	May 18, 1927
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] See nos. 3594–3602 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )