August von Kreling
August von Kreling (* May 23, 1819 in Osnabrück, † April 22, 1876 in Nuremberg ) was a German painter and sculptor.
Life
Kreling was the son of a master baker Johann Friedrich Kreling and his wife Margarethe Marie Biermann. After visiting the school council Osnabrück Kreling learned in his father's business in the occupation of baker. At age 16, he moved in 1835 to the Polytechnic College in Hanover, and became a pupil of the sculptor Ernst von Bandel.
On his recommendation Kreling changed in the following year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he became a pupil of Peter von Cornelius and Ludwig Michael von Schwanthalerstraße. In these years Kreling gave up sculpture in favor of painting almost entirely. His artistic debut Kreling with nine ceiling paintings, which he created for the Court Theatre in Hanover.
The years 1847-1848 Kreling spent on a study trip in northern Italy; mostly in Venice, where he copied the works of Veronese.
1853 Kreling was appointed at the request of the Bavarian King Maximilian II to lead the School of Applied Arts in Nuremberg. As such, he structured this school through this new and modernization this establishment became the model for all similar schools throughout Germany.
The Office of the Director had Kreling held until 1874. One of his most important works from the early years in Nuremberg is considered " The Coronation of Ludwig of Bavaria " which Kreling created for the Maximilianeum. When he was offered the post of Director in Berlin Academy of Art, he refused it the low budget off due.
1850 Kreling designed for the businessman and later Mayor of Cincinnati (Ohio ), Henry Probasco, a female figure on a fountain, which represented the " Genius of Water". The mediation between customer and artist found on the royal. bayer. Erzgießerei Inspector Ferdinand von Miller instead, then poured this sculpture in bronze. With this figure, crowned Probasco in Cincinnati a well, which he had built in memory of his brother Tyler Davidson.
In 1854 he married Johanna in Munich, a daughter of the painter Wilhelm von Kaulbach. With her he had three daughters and two sons, including the later painter Wilhelm Kreling. That same year, the Imperial Castle was restored in Nuremberg under Kreling leadership. For Kreling designed many of the missing furniture in the taste of the time.
The Prince of Liechtenstein Kreling dedicated in 1858 as the architect for the conversion of her castle in Lednice (Bohemia ), which it is not only the building but also the gardens redesigned part. By 1858 he produced cartoons for the stained glass of the Market Church in Hanover. In 1859 Kreling under the hand of a contract for the design of the so-called Thunder Castle in Altona, which the businessman Bernhard Donner had given his father, Wilhelm von Kaulbach. 1861 Kreling responsible for the entire decoration of the Nuremberg Song Festival.
For the City of Weil der Stadt Kreling created in 1870 a memorial to Johannes Kepler, which was then poured from the Nuremberg firm Lenz & Herold. In the same year Kreling was supported by the University of Tübingen with the title Dr. phil. H.C. honored. Also at this foundry Kreling design for a statue of Prince Heinrich Posthumus of Reuss was realized in Gera.
1873 Kreling was knighted by King Ludwig II in the peerage, and was awarded the Maximilian Order for Science and Art. About a year later died August from Kreling at the age of almost 57 years on 22 April 1876 in Nuremberg.
He was a man of rich artistic talent, versatile education, rich in experience, from a practical view and extraordinary energy. In his paintings, he remained faithful to the coloristic direction, and in his sculptural works are located throughout a decided tendency for the picturesque element known. Kreling was a member of the circle of patronage morning society.