Albert Kappis

Albert Kappis ( born August 20, 1836 in Wild Feldberg (Schwarzwald ), the district of Calw, † September 18, 1914 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter and lithographer.

Life

Kappis received from 1850 to about 1857 trained as a lithographer in the workshop of his uncle Adam gates not. Besides, he had lessons with a teacher of drawing Carl Kurtz. 1855-1860 was studying at the Royal Art School in Stuttgart Heinrich von Rustige ( genre and history painting ), Heinrich Funk ( landscape painting) and Bernhard von Neher ( nude ).

In 1860 he began to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under the history painter Karl von Piloty. He became friends with Adolf Lier and Eduard Schleich the Elder. , With Anton Braith, Joseph Wopfner (1843-1927) and Ludwig Willroider. He made ​​the acquaintance of other Swabian painters, including Friedrich Salzer, Jacob Green Forest and Carl Ebert. In 1867 he undertook a study trip to Paris. There, he would interact with members of the Barbizon School. He made the return trip to Belgium and the Moselle Valley to Dusseldorf, where he attended the famous Munich Theodor Christoph Schüz. 1871-1874 moved Kappis in the so-called Swabian castle, the residence of Anton Braith and Christian Mali. In 1874 he made ​​his honeymoon in South Tyrol and Upper Italy to Venice. Then he painted mainly motives of the Munich area, especially at the Starnberg and Chiemsee. In 1880 he was appointed professor of landscape painting at the Royal Art School in Stuttgart, where he became a teacher of the " Swabian Impressionists ". This was followed by trips to Bavaria, the Black Forest, Lake Constance, to Hamburg and the Baltic Sea. In 1905 he gind to retire. Kappis mainly painted landscapes, genre motifs from the life of the people as the vintage, harvest scenes and sheep shearing.