Ferdinand Kobell

Ferdinand Hess Peter ( born June 7, 1740 in Mannheim, † February 1, 1799 in Munich) was a German painter, engraver and etcher.

Life

KOBELL Ferdinand, brother of Franz Hess Peter, initially studied in Heidelberg law until it the Elector Palatine Carl Theodor in 1762 was known by a landscape painting and this helped him to the extent to live exclusively on painting. He went for further training in 1768 for 18 months after Paris. After his return the following year he was the Electoral cabinet painter and a little later a professor at the Academy in Mannheim. After Carl Theodor had in 1778 assumed the Bavarian heritage, KOBELL remained in Mannheim and followed him until 1793 to Munich. Shortly before his death he became in 1798 director of the gallery to Mannheim. He died on 1 February 1799 in Munich. His son is the painter and etcher Wilhelm von Hess Peter, born on April 6, 1766 in Mannheim; Johann Jacob Rieger (1754-1811), was one of his students.

Works

His paintings, mostly painted in Berchem's style, characterized by impressive handling and ease of preparation. Of his 300 etchings woman wood was in Nuremberg 1809 collection with the title " oeuvre complet de FK ". 178 sheets published by Kugler in Stuttgart in 1842. The list of his works written Stephan von Stengel (Nuremberg, 1822).

In the State collection of paintings Aschaffenburg ( Schloss Johannesburg ) is a Aschaffenburg cycle Kobell consisting issued continuously from landscapes and cityscapes. Within this picture cycle results from six oil paintings, painted from different floors and windows of the castle from Johannesburg, in a sense, a 300 - degree panorama of the river and Spessart landscape around Aschaffenburg. These are the paintings with the inventory numbers 6585 ( Title: " View from Aschaffenburg castle to the stables and the Main Bridge"), 9802 ( " Main Bridge near Aschaffenburg " ), 6544 ( "view from Aschaffenburg Castle Schönbusch " ), 6545 ( " View from Aschaffenburg castle down the Main " ), 6587 ( " view from Castle in Aschaffenburg city to the north " ) and 6546 ( " view from Aschaffenburg to Goldbach "). On the panoramic nature of these six paintings however, is not specifically mentioned in the catalog. Also, the close relationship of these paintings not obvious to the viewer at first glance because they are hung on different walls or not in the corresponding concatenation. Go to Aschaffenburg cycle, which originally consisted of 15 paintings, according to Eduard Coudenhove- Erthal remain among the paintings with the inventory numbers 6586 ( Title: " Lake Superior in " Fine bush " in Aschaffenburg " ), 9803 ( "The Castle in Aschaffenburg " ) and 9807 ( "look at Aschaffenburg from the east ").