Victor Zeppenfeld

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Victor Zeppenfeld, photography by G. & A. Overbeck , around 1865

Victor Zeppenfeld (born February 14, 1834 in Greiz , Principality of Reuss , † after 1883, presumably in Flensburg ) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Zeppenfeld was born as the son of a coppersmith in Greiz. His career began with training with the painter Martin Gensler in Hamburg . In May 1853, at the age of 19, he entered the Munich Art Academy , which he left after six months. Then he went to Düsseldorf , where he worked as a private student in the studio of the genre painter Rudolf Jordan . From Düsseldorf, Zeppenfeld undertook a series of study trips to places in Germany, Switzerland and Northern Italy. Between 1875 and 1883 he lived in Flensburg and Glücksburg . Zeppenfeld was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

Work (selection)

The fallen tightrope walker , 1864
Summer theater in the restaurant garden , 1866
Equestrian portrait , 1870
  • Tomorrow before the shooting festival
  • The spice dealer's shop
  • In front of the post office counter
  • The mousetrap dealer
  • Donkey couple at the feeding trough , 1863
  • The fallen tightrope walker , 1864
  • An art lover
  • Summer theater in the Gasthausgarten , 1866, Theater Studies Collection, University of Cologne , Wahn Castle
  • Equestrian portrait , 1870
  • The bird's nest , 1870
  • Recovery , 1874
  • The Captured Son , 1875
  • Kaulbach's arrival in Olympus , also widely used as a photographic reproduction
  • Italian fruit seller , 1882
  • Street party with man, children and dogs , 1883

  • The bird's nest , 1870

  • The Captured Son , 1875

  • Italian fruit seller , 1882

literature

  • Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 571. ( digitized version )
  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwe: Painting in Schleswig-Holstein. Catalog of the painting collection of the Städtisches Museum Flensburg . Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Company, Heide 1989, ISBN 3-8042-0467-8 , p. 350.
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , pp. 455-456.

Web links

Commons : Victor Zeppenfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Registration Victor Zeppenfeld of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich , accessed on June 14, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Zeppenfeld, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Greiz
DATE OF DEATH after 1883