Heinrich Christoph Kolbe

Heinrich Christoph Kolbe (also: Christian Heinrich Kolbe ) ( born April 2, 1771 in Dusseldorf, † January 16, 1836 ) was a German painter.

Life

After his education at the "old" Düsseldorf academy under Johann Peter Langer he went to a ten-year period of study in Paris, where he painting deepened by François -André Vincent at the Ecole des Beaux -Arts, married a French woman and the father of a son and a daughter. He lived in a circle of Friedrich Schlegel and worked "Europe" at the journal. Later he worked in the studio of François Gérard. In 1811 he returned to Dusseldorf. Now he was the preferred portraitist of the Rhineland. About 60 portraits created solely in the cities of Barmen and Elberfeld. The images show members of the corporate elite and give an indication of the importance of Wuppertal as a market and livelihood of the Düsseldorf painter of the early 19th century.

In Weimar, he portrayed Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Grand Duke Carl August twice each. Likewise, two portraits of the beloved of the Grand Duke, Caroline Hunt man emerged. Since 1822 Kolbe was a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (gypsum class, painting class 2 ). After a long argument with the new director Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow he was on leave in 1832, initially, then repeatedly extended for only two years with half the salary. Kolbe's students was Gustav Adolf Koettgen.

Kolbe died in 1836 after a long illness in Dusseldorf.

Works (selection)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1826 )

Johann Caspar Engels II

Portrait of a Lady

Portrait of a Young Lady (1826 )