Friedrich August von Kaulbach

Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Fritz August von Kaulbach, ( born June 2, 1850 in Munich, † July 26, 1920 in Ohlstadt in Murnau ) was a German painter. He was the son of the painter Friedrich Kaulbach history and is famous for its decorative fanciful portraits of the mainly female company in the French style of the 19th century.

Life

Friedrich August von Kaulbach studied at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Nuremberg ( in August from Kreling and Karl Raupp ) and then with his father Friedrich Kaulbach. In 1871 he moved to Munich. He was next to Franz Spranger and Franz von Stuck to the so-called Munich painter prince and became one of the highest paid German portrait painter. His portraits were mostly commissioned work, the portrayed almost exclusively members of the highest German and American society circles. His image Children's Carnival, representing the five children of the family Pringsheim, Katia Mann shows (far left) as a child; Thomas Mann had long before he met his future wife, hang a reproduction of the picture in his room.

He stayed in Paris. In 1886 he was appointed director of the Munich Academy. He was also a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. His daughter was married to the sculptor Hedda Toni Stadler, his daughter Matilda married in 1925 the painter Max Beckmann.

Kaulbach Villa Munich

In 1888 after ideas of Friedrich August von Kaulbach near the English Garden in Munich Kaulbachstr. Villa built by Gabriel von Seidl completed. This villa is how the modeled in the same year of begun by Seidlvilla Lenbachplatz, the Italian Renaissance.

Kaulbach Villa Ohlstadt

Built in 1893 the painter Kaulbach Villa in Upper Bavaria Ohlstadt, which served until his death as a second home in the summer. Since July 1997 she is a museum, some 30 paintings and 25 drawings by Kaulbach are shown in the. Accessible and preserved in their original state, the studio room and a study.

Kaulbach and the " tomfoolery "

With a variety of cartoons Kaulbach documented the art scene of his time. Prominent motives he found particularly among members of the society of artists Allotria, which was founded by Francis of Lenbachplatz as a counterforce to "established" artists in Munich. Quick established thereby Franz Spranger yourself what inspired Kaulbach and the " Schwaben Majer " ( Gustav Majer ) to friendly mockery in a " Lenbachiade ".