Stanislaus von Kalckreuth
Stanislaus Friedrich Ludwig Graf von Kalckreuth (born December 25, 1820 in Kozmin near Posen , † November 25, 1894 in Munich ) was a German painter .
Life
Stanislaus von Kalckreuth, son of Wilhelm Graf von Kalckreuth (1782-1857) and his second wife Luise von Stechow (1791-1840), successfully completed the high school in Polish Lissa and then attended a cadet institute for a short time . At the age of 20, Kalckreuth joined the 1st Guard Regiment in Potsdam as an officer on foot , but left it again after a short time. From 1840 to 1844 he took painting lessons with Carl Gustav Wegener (1812-1887) in Potsdam, and later with Wilhelm Krause and Karl Eduard Biermann in Berlin.
At the age of 24 he went to Düsseldorf in 1845 and was a student at the art academy there between 1846 and 1849 . a. of the painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer . At the end of 1849 Kalckreuth settled in Cologne for almost two years and then moved to Düsseldorf, where he took further private lessons from Schirmer until 1853.
From 1848 he went on study trips through Switzerland, the Pyrenees, France and Italy, initially with royal travel grants.
The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV appointed Kalckreuth professor in 1852. In 1858 he moved to Weimar , where he was instrumental in founding the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School . In 1860, with the opening ceremony in the presence of the king, Kalckreuth was officially confirmed as its first director. He knew how to gather progressive painters in Weimar.
In January 1876 Kalckreuth resigned from all his offices and retired into private life. He first moved to Bad Kreuznach, the hometown of his wife Anna. From 1883 he lived in Munich. There he died at the age of 73.
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He brought back numerous sketches from his travels in order to process them in the studio into classic picture compositions in the style of Schirmer. Above all, he painted deserted mountain landscapes. He was particularly interested in the impressive reproduction of atmospheric phenomena and did not shy away from the alpenglow .
family
Von Kalckreuth had been married to Anna Eleonore Cauer (1829–1881), who came from the Kreuznach family of sculptors , from 1845 . The son Leopold von Kalckreuth (1855–1928) also became a well-known painter. Their daughter Clara (1851–1903) received music lessons from Clara Schumann and Franz von Liszt ; she eventually married the Protestant theologian Karl Alfred von Hase (1842–1914). His daughters Pauline (1856–1929) and Marie (1857–1897) also devoted themselves to painting.
His great-grandchildren include a. Karl Friedrich , Klaus , Dietrich and Sabine Bonhoeffer .
Works (selection)
- Lac de Gaube in the Pyrenees (1855)
- The Canigaithal in the Eastern Pyrenees (1856)
- The Rosenlauigletscher in Switzerland (1878)
literature
- Friedrich von Boetticher : Kalckreuth, Stanislaus, Count von . In: Painters Works of the Nineteenth Century: Contribution to Art History . tape 1 . Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 685-686 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Haack: Kalckreuth, Stanislaus Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, p. 813 f.
- Ralf Weingart, in: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 .
See also
Web links
- Kalckreuth, Eduard Stanislaus Graf von . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
- The estate is in the Bavarian State Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kalckreuth, Stanislaus von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kalckreuth, Eduard Stanislaus Graf von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kozmin near Poznan |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 1894 |
| Place of death | Munich |