Jakob Grünenwald

Jacob Green Forest ( born September 30, 1821 in Bünzwangen; † September 26, 1896 in Stuttgart) was a Swabian genre painter and illustrator.

Life

Jacob Green Forest was the eighth child of the wage Weber and small farmers Johann Georg Green Forest and his wife Rosina. In 1840 he began at the Royal Stuttgart Art School his training as a history painter Bernhard of Neher and Johann Friedrich Dietrich, said he preferred dealt with religious themes.

In 1853 he moved to Munich, home of the famous Munich Academy and former artistic stronghold, where he worked together with other compatriots like Carl Ebert, Anton Braith and Albert Kappis with Munich artists such as Carl Spitzweg. In 1855 he married Maria Dorothea Rapp from Stuttgart.

Green Forest received various public contracts and was until 1881 part of numerous exhibitions throughout Germany, as in Dresden, Berlin, and the Munich Glass Palace. In his time in Munich he devoted himself mainly of genre painting and created most of his known works.

As the interest fell to his work in Munich, he was appointed by the mediation of his former teacher Neher in 1877 as a professor at the Stuttgart Art School, so that his livelihood was assured. Green Forest where he worked as head of the character class until his death; his students included, inter alia, Karl Bauer, Karl Hartmann, Georg Jauss and Hermann Pleuer. As a member of the board of the " Society for Christian Art in the Evangelical Church of Württemberg " he exercised influence on contemporary religious art, which was also the focus of his commercial work at this time.

Creation

Long Green Forest had fallen into oblivion as a painter, though he was very popular during his lifetime and some of his genre paintings ( The landlady 's daughter, Schwäbisches bride and groom gets the big motherly blessing ) as steel engravings widely disseminated.

Only in the 1980s, when the genre pictures again enjoyed great popularity, Green Forest was rediscovered. The most comprehensive, publicly accessible collection of his works is located in Göppingen municipal museum in the stork. The Green Forest Memorial in Bünzwangen expanded their property by steady buying. In the Landesmuseum Württemberg he is also showing work.

• To 1845 he painted under Dietrich's leadership, the high altarpiece Keys to Peter
• In 1850 he became known for his portrayal of a sick healing Christ.
• In 1863 he created as the first peak of his career for the newly constructed Bavarian National Museum in Munich, the fresco on the theme The Battle of Aidenbachstraße.
• 1867 was to see after the hailstorm at the World Exhibition in Paris be applicable as a major work painting; it is now held by the Württemberg State Museum.
• 1869 The Girl of the stranger.
• 1871 Homecoming of the field.
• 1873 Punch and Judy show.
• Appeared in 1875, edited by Georg Scherer Collection The most beautiful German folk songs ( Dürr, Leipzig) as illustrated deluxe edition with woodcuts after drawings by Green Forest.
• After 1877: frescoes and stained glass windows, such as designs for the windows of the church hall Bad Boll.