Theodor Leopold Weller

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Self-portrait 1854
Theodor Leopold Weller - Return of Italian Country People

Theodor Leopold Weller (born May 29, 1802 in Mannheim ; † December 10, 1880 there ) was a 19th century German genre painter , a founder of German genre painting and an important representative of the Munich School .

family

Weller was the second son of Franz Weller and Johanna, a daughter of Hofrat Andreas Lamey . The father's wish was that Weller should study law. However, the artistic talent of painting became apparent early on. In 1836 he married Clara Mohr, the daughter of a merchant from Italy whose original name was del Moro , and moved to Munich. With his wife, Weller had two sons and two daughters.

Art education, apprenticeship and wandering years

In 1818 Weller came to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He was a student of Johann Peter von Langer , the first director of the Munich Art Academy. At the same time, the German-Danish genre painter Ernst Meyer was studying in Munich . Weller also met Peter von Cornelius here , who was brought to Munich by Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria in 1819 , where, among other things, he was to redesign the Glyptothek . Weller's inclination, however, lay more on the portrayal of folk life and nature. With his detailed and careful painting style, he took Peter von Hess as a role model. With his friend, the landscape painter Ernst Fries , he went to Rome in the autumn of 1825 . Here he was accepted at the Academy of San Luca . His wanderings in Italy led him to Naples . In 1833 Weller temporarily returned to Mannheim, from where he visited Paris and Düsseldorf over the next three years . In 1839 he returned to Italy. He stayed in Rome again until 1848, where he became a member of the German Art Association in 1845 and was a member of its board in 1846/47. In 1851 he was appointed director of the Mannheim Art Association. At the same time, he held the position of board member of the Mannheimer Kunstverein for 23 years and was ultimately also its curator . The art historian and art writer Georg Kaspar Nagler wrote about him:

“ In his pictures W. grasped life from its amiable, naive side and an excellent talent for idyllic representation. His figures move in moderate joy or indulge in comfortable calm. ... The blossoming, warm color and the unaffected mastery of the lecture give his pictures a special charm. "

A directory compiled by Weller himself shows 124 of his works.

Louis Coblitz (1814–1863) from Mannheim was one of his students.

Visit to the prison

Works (selection)

  • Gang of jesters in front of the Marcellus Theater (1828), Royal Gallery Copenhagen
  • The mother with the children in the vine arbor (1828)
  • "The mendicant is entertained by a rural family."
    The mendicant monk is entertained by a rural family
  • The fortune teller , Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
  • Visit to the prison (1835), Alte Nationalgalerie, Munich
  • Carneval of Rome , Mannheimer Kunstverein
  • The Duck Seller (1835), oil on canvas, 43 × 35 cm
  • Das Fest (1845), oil on canvas, 82 × 67.5 cm
  • Country people returning home in the Cyclopenthor von Segni , Neue Pinakothek Munich
  • The improvising shoemaker , Museum Schloss Rosenstein Stuttgart

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 635
personal data
SURNAME Weller, Theodor Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1880
Place of death Mannheim