Friedrich Voltz

Johann Friedrich Voltz ( born October 31, 1817 in Nördlingen, † June 25, 1886 in Munich) was a German painter of animals and landscape painter of the Munich school (visual arts ).

Life

Friedrich Voltz received his first instruction in art from his father, the painter, engraver and illustrator, Johann Michael Voltz (1784-1858), began his artistic career as an etcher and went to Munich in 1834 to the Academy, but where he found less Promotion than by fine studies by the Dutch in the Pinakothek and from nature. He was influenced by Albrecht Adam and by his friends Carl Spitzweg and Eduard Schleich the Elder. Sometimes he painted the cows in Schleich's landscapes. He was initially employed as an etcher and lithographer and painted at the same time until the end of the 30's landscapes from the Bavarian mountains.

After 1841 in Holland The young bull of Paul Potter seen, he devoted himself mainly to animal painting. He turned the Bavarian level, particularly Lake Starnberg to and painted grazing or drinking cattle, horses, sheep and goats. After he toured Belgium and Holland in 1846, he joined the Dutch painters mood in which he was encouraged by the influence of Christian Morgenstern and Eduard Schleich even more. In his incurred since the beginning of the 50's numerous landscapes with animal staffage, which are usually held in an elongated wide format, henceforth he focused on the lighting and the mood in humid air, he soon a warm golden color, sometimes a cool silvery tone preferred. Voltz showed the animals lying or standing without much movement, but generated by the strong play of light and shadow picturesque drama.

Also founded Voltz in the 1840s until then reserved for the horses race Portrait of cows. It was against the background of increasing saving through the use and breeding of certain species in agriculture. Especially often he put the Ampermoos beef dar.

Voltz was considered at that time as the most important German painter of animals and was replaced in this ranking by Anton Braith. Pictures of him can be found among others in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, at the Museum of Cologne and at the Berlin National Gallery.

He was Regius Professor. Ludwig Voltz was his brother.