Friedrich Kaulbach

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Kaulbach Theodor ( born July 8, 1822 in Bad Arolsen, † September 17, 1903 in Hannover ) was a German painter.

Life

Friedrich Kaulbach was cousin and pupil Wilhelm von Kaulbach in 1839, the first known member of this famous family of painters and father of her most well-known representative of the Bavarian prince of painters Friedrich August.

After a visit to Venice in 1844 he separated from his teacher and painted until 1848 his first independent painting Adam and Eve find her son Abel slain. As a result, he was appointed as professor at the Munich Art Academy, which he did not follow. In 1850 he traveled to Paris, where he painted more history paintings, and took orders for portraits. In 1850 he was awarded by King Maximilian II of Bavaria commissioned the image to paint the coronation of Charles the Great for the Maximilianeum, the picture was completed in 1861.

1856 Kaulbach was founded by King George V, he portrayed several times, called as court painter to Hanover and became a professor at the Polytechnic of Hanover. As such, he also taught the later graphic designer Heinrich lunch. Kaulbach was the preferred portraitist of the local aristocracy. The king gave him a studio and living house, 1857-60 (is that a listed building, though disfigured, still exists today as part of the Waterloo - beer garden) the Hanoverian architect Christian Heinrich Trammplatz in the Waterloo Road 1 Built for Kaulbach. Kaulbach's daughter, the writer Isidore Kaulbach, has described in her memoirs (1931 ) lives in his father's home, which among other Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt, Joseph Joachim, Ernst von Wildenbruchstrasse and Anton Rubinstein wrong.

His numerous portraits, including those of the Empress of Austria, the German Crown Prince, Prince Albrecht, the Count and Countess Stolberg, are extremely rich in detail, but included the then prevailing taste as many times as a slightly theatrical exaggeration, superficial elegance and dull color. The best succeed portraits of ladies. From the Berlin Academy of Art Kaulbach received the small gold medal and was appointed a full member of the same; at the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873, he was awarded the medal.

Friedrich Kaulbach's grave can be found at the city cemetery Engesohde in Hanover. Kaulbach's son Friedrich August von Kaulbach was also a painter.

Works

• Adam and Eve find her son killed Abel (1848, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig)
• Coronation of Charlemagne (1861, Maximilianeum, Munich)