Theodor Franconia

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Theodor Franken (born March 31, 1811 in Geilenkirchen , Département de la Roer , † May 28, 1876 in Düsseldorf ) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Family idyll in the room
Gravestone for Theodor and Franziska Franken on the northern part of the Golzheimer Friedhof (2019)

Franken studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1829 to 1831 . The portrait painter Heinrich Christoph Kolbe in particular was his teacher there. From 1831 he exhibited in Düsseldorf, where he made his debut with a self-portrait.

Before 1841 he married into the family of Franziska Kux (1808-1891). In 1841 he and her family sold the "Deuzerhof" in Bilk . The picture Die Dorfpolitiker vividly describes a scene that could be located in this location . Around 1844 they lived on Bolkerstraße 565. This house probably became the address Alleestraße 23 on the corner of Communicationsstraße (Bolkerstraße) in the 1850s, where his wife and her sister Helene ran the Kux siblings' cleaning and fashion shop . Theodor Franken remained in Düsseldorf until his death in 1876 and worked as a genre painter.

Works

  • The village politicians , around 1840
  • Grace (prayer before meal) , 1842
  • A young couple and their children , 1849
  • Family idyll in the parlor , 1849
  • Gentleman reclining on a sofa
  • Two young girls secretly reading a letter , 1863

literature

Web links

Commons : Theodor Franken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. nos. 3655–3657 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 ).
  2. ^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 117, no. 43 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Sale of the Deutzerhof in Bilk - on Tuesday, April 20, 1841 and on the following day, the so-called Deuzerhof in the community of Unterbilk, along with the associated communities of Unterbilk, Stoffeln and Flehe, just as Bilker and Hammerfelde parcels are sold. Seller under e) painter Theodor Franken and Franziska, née Kux zu Düsseldorf , in Düsseldorfer Zeitung (No. 45), supplement dated February 14, 1841.
  4. ↑ Theodor, Bolkerstraße 565 , in: Complete address calendar and apartment display of the city of Düsseldorf 1844 , p. 34.
  5. ↑ Franken, Theodor, Alleestraße 23 , in: Address book of the Oberbürgermeisterei Düsseldorf, compiled on July 1, 1863 , p. 38.
  6. ^ Franken, Theodor, Maler, Alleestraße 436; Franken, Theodor, wife, fashion retailer Company: Geschw. Kux, Alleestraße 436 , in: Address book of the Mayor's office in Düsseldorf 1855 , p. 36.
  7. ^ Village Politicians , website in alamy.com portal , accessed June 30, 2017.
  8. ↑ Gentleman Reclining on a Sofa , website in the kunstkopie.de portal , accessed on June 30, 2017.
  9. ↑ Two young girls secretly reading a letter , website in the mutualart.com portal, accessed on May 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Franconia, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Geilenkirchen , Département de la Roer
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1876
Place of death Dusseldorf