Rudolf Koch (painter, 1834)
Rudolf Wilhelm Koch (born January 11, 1834 in Hamburg , † January 8, 1885 in Ottensen ) was a German plant and landscape painter who is part of the Düsseldorf School .
Life
He was a son of Johann Heinrich Koch, an embroidery draftsman in Hamburg, and the embroiderer Ida Evers. After Koch had been a pupil of Günther Gensler in Hamburg until he was 15 , he went to Berlin in 1849 , where he worked in the studios of Leopold Knebel and August von Kloeber . In the years 1851 to 1852 he stayed in Hamburg again to study with the brothers Günther and Martin Gensler . In 1852/53 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he was a student in Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's landscape class . From 1855 Koch lived as a landscape painter in Hamburg, where he also worked as a drawing teacher at the Johanneum from 1868 to 1875 . In 1875 he retired to Ottensen.
His main work is the "Botanical Herbarium " of 540 watercolors with over 1000 depictions of plants that earned him the nickname "Plant Cook". He also made commercial graphics (business cards, posters, diplomas, certificates, festival programs, etc.) using plant motifs. He also created some wall paintings.
Koch was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 , from 1854 to 1884 he took part in its exhibitions.
His children were the craftsperson and painter Ilse Koch-Amberg (1869–1934) and the painter and graphic artist Walter Koch (1875–1915).
literature
- Koch, Rudolf. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 723 ( archive.org ).
- General artist lexicon. Lives and works of the most famous visual artists , revised and updated editions, prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . Edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer . Volume 2. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1896, pp. 366-367 ( digitized version ).
- D .: Koch, Walter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 93-94 .
Web links
- Rudolf Wilhelm Koch. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koch, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koch, Rudolf Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1885 |
| Place of death | Ottensen |