Theodor Funck

Theodor Franz Funck (born March 10, 1867 in Elberfeld , † February 5, 1919 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Theodor Funck studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1890 . There Adolf Schill , Hugo Crola and Johann Peter Theodor Janssen were his most important teachers. He was assistant to the latter for a long time. Funck stayed in Düsseldorf until his death. As his private student he taught Kristjan Raud . From 1895 to 1919 he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . Together with the painters Carl Becker , Heinrich Heimes , Claus Meyer and Erich Nikutowski , Funck was one of the founders of the Association of 1899 , which split off from the Free Association of Düsseldorf Artists, founded in 1891 . At the German National Art Exhibition for the Industrial and Commercial Exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1902 , he received a “small gold medal” from Wilhelm II . In portrait painting, he preferred the representation in full figure. Funck died of a heart condition. His estate was auctioned off in 1920 at the G. Adolf Pohl auction house in Hamburg.

Works (selection)

Girl nude , black and white photo of the painting at the Great Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1913

• Interior , exhibited at the Great Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1911
• Girl nude , exhibited in 1913 at the Great Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf
• With the widow Prins
• At the death bed
• View over the fields
• Eifel landscape
• View of a river valley in the low mountain range

literature

• Walter Cohen : Funck, Theodor . 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. 592-593 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Udo Garweg, Klaus Giesen, Gudrun Haberberger: Wuppertal artist directory . Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 2000, ISBN 978-3-89202-042-4 , p. 118 .

Web links

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

• Theodor Funck , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
• Theodor Funck , Auction Results on artnet.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nicole Roth: How modern is the Düsseldorf School of Painting? In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 254, 261 footnote 28.
2. ↑ See personal and studio news in: Die Kunst. Monthly books for free and applied arts , Volume 18, 1902/03, Issue 5, p. 118 ( digitized version ).
3. ↑ The art. Monthly books for free and applied arts , Volume 40, 1919, p. II.
4. ^ Art auction house G. Adolf Pohl (ed.): Auction of first-class paintings from various high-manorial. Private ownership and estate of Th. Funck † Düsseldorf: also a large number of Japanese, Chinese and oriental art objects, oriental carpets, as well as period furniture in large numbers, bronzes, marble figures, old a. new porcelains, crystals, other art objects and much more; Auctioned on March 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 1920 . Hamburg 1920, p. 15 ( digitized version )
5. ↑ Illustration in: Hermann Board : The Great Art Exhibition Düsseldorf 1911 . In: The art. Monthly magazine for free and applied arts Volume 26, 1911, p. 554 ( digitized version ).
6. ↑ Illustration in: Hermann Board: From the Great Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf 1913 . In: The art. Monthly magazine for fine and applied arts . Volume 37, 1913, p. 532 ( digitized version ).