Wilhelm Auberlen

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Wilhelm Auberlen (born July 8, 1860 in Stuttgart , † 1948 in Lenggries ) was a genre painter and sculptor during the transition from the Age of Enlightenment to Modern Art .

life and work

A four-leaf clover. After a painting by W. Auberlen , reproduction in: Die Gartenlaube , 1898

Auberlen came from a Protestant merchant family. At the age of 22 he was accepted into the "natural class" of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and studied with Nikolaus Gysis and Ludwig von Löfftz .

From 1888 to 1890 Auberlen stayed in Spain and Morocco for study purposes. From 1893 to 1896 he lived in Berlin and from 1896 in Stuttgart. He then had a permanent residence in Munich from 1902.

Auberlen was mainly active as a portrait painter and was known for his literary portraits, but also painted landscapes and genre pictures .

His artistic creative phase was very long. Works by Wilhelm Auberlen are coveted collector's items.

Auberlen as a collector

Auberlen collected works of art from the Far East and was a lender for the exhibition "Japan and East Asia in Art".

literature

  • Wilhelm Auberlen . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 77 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 04282 Wilhelm Auberlen , matriculation books in the archive of the Academy of Fine Arts
  2. ↑ Auberlen, Wilhelm . In: Horst Ludwig (Ed.): Munich painter in the 19th century . Volume 1, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1981, p. 37
  3. ^ Wilhelm Auberlen . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 224 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ From the auction room. In: welt.de . October 31, 2003, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  5. ^ Cäcilie and Oscar Graf, Directory of Collections and Exhibitors, in Exh. Cat .: Japan and East Asia in Art, Official Catalog of the Exhibition, Munich 1909, p. 103
personal data
SURNAME Auberlen, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH 1948
Place of death Lenggries