Wilhelm Kümpel (painter)

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Wilhelm Kümpel (born September 5, 1822 in Altona , Duchy of Holstein , † April 17, 1880 in London ) was a German portrait , history and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School . As a tenor , he appeared in various musical performances from the 1840s.

Life

Kümpel attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1840 to 1844 , where he studied portrait painting with Karl Ferdinand Sohn . In the 2nd quarter of 1844 he left there. Under the conductor Julius Rietz , Kümpel appeared in May 1845 as solo tenor at the Lower Rhine Music Festival in Düsseldorf.

Portrait of the composer Cornelius Gurlitt , 1848, Altonaer Museum

When the Schleswig-Holstein uprising took place in 1848 , Kümpel was already living again in his native town of Altona, a center of this dispute, in which many Altona citizens wanted to counter the danization efforts of the Danish sovereign Christian VIII and on the Schleswig-Holstein question to stand up for the cohesion of the duchies Holstein and Schleswig ( Up eternally ungeled ) . The historical picture Andromeda, forged on the rock (1847) and the portrait of the composer Cornelius Gurlitt (1848) date from this period . During or after this survey, Kümpel, then a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 , fell into political captivity.

He then went into exile in London. There he worked as a portrait, figure and landscape painter, and occasionally appeared as a singer. Between 1857 and 1879 he took part in exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts with the following paintings: Margaret, from Faust (1857), Disappointment (1859), An incident in the life of Otto I, Emperor of Germany (1862), WG Cusins ​​Esq . (1867), In the Wood, New Forest (1873), An old mill in the Tyrol (1877) and Mark-Ash, New Forest (1879). Some of his pictures were featured in the Illustrated London News . In 1869 at the latest he discovered the New Forest , a romantic wooded area in Hampshire, for his landscape painting . The New Forest Exhibition , which was organized in London's Regent Street in 1876 to contribute to its protection through images of this landscape, was one of its protagonists.

As a singer he appeared on March 30, 1854 in the soiree of a "Mademoiselle Hermann". In the years 1868 and 1869 he took part in concerts by a “Madame Greiffenhagen”. On July 4, 1868, as a member of the “Working Men's Society”, he performed “Walther's Lied” from Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in an evening performance .

In London, Kümpel was one of the founders of the German Association for Art and Science (German Athenaeum London). The friends of Kümpels included the writer and collector George Powell of Nanteos (1842–1882), who commissioned drawings by German composers from him, as well as the painters Carl Haag and Joseph Wolf , who worked with Kümpel in 1870 for the benefit of relatives fallen German soldiers of the Franco-Prussian War led a benefit painting exhibition of the German Athenaeum.

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  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf. 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. 434.
  2. ↑ See nos. 8126–8130 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 ).
  3. ↑ Niederrheinisches Musik-Fest in Düsseldorf. Pentecost May 11th and 12th, 1845 . Stahl'sche Buchdruckerei, Düsseldorf 1845, p. 37 ( Google Books ).
  4. ↑ Andromeda, forged on the rock , data sheet in the portal akg-images.de , accessed on August 12, 2017.
  5. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt , data sheet in the portal akg-images.de , accessed on August 12, 2017.
  6. ↑ Algernon Graves: The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. 4 volumes, SR Publishers / Kingsmead Reprints, London 1970, ii 353.
  7. ^ Michael Allis: Performance in Private: 'The Working Men's Society' and the Promotion of Progressive Repertoire in Nineteenth-Century Britain. In: Bennett Zon (Ed.): Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Essays in the Honor of Nicholas Temperley. Routledge, New York / NY 2016, ISBN 978-1-4094-3979-0 , p. 141 and footnote 8 ( Google Books )
  8. ↑ George Powell of Nanteos , biography in the portal museum.aber.ac.uk ( Aberystwyth University ), accessed on August 12, 2017.
  9. ^ Karl Heinrich Schaible : Thirty-seven years from the life of an exile. A fleeting picture of life. Adolf Bonz, Stuttgart 1895, p. 152 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ), p. 155 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kümpel, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait, history and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona , Duchy of Holstein
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1880
Place of death London