Johann Sperl

Johann Sperl (born Johann Spörl; born November 3, 1840 in book, now at Nuremberg; † July 29, 1914 in Bad Aibling, Bavaria) was a German painter.

Life

Johann Sperl was born in 1840 as the only child of Protestant parents in book at Fürth. The father came from Erbenreut at Grafenberg, worked in the summer as a day laborer at the local farmers and in winter as a wood worker in the imperial forest near Nuremberg. Born in book Mother had to contribute as a home help for very modest living by. The family lived in a small house next door to a farm. Sperl was born under the official name Spörl.

School years

In 1846, the child was admitted to the primary school in the nearby Kraftshof, from which he graduated in 1854 as class leader. Through the mediation of the village priest Sperl received his first teaching position in the general art institute of magistracy Geisler in Nuremberg, where he worked as a colorist for soldiers - picture sheets, children's books and early writings.

1856 his father died. Sperl had support from now on the destitute sick mother. As was observed after completion of the apprenticeship with Geisler the welcome opportunity to move into the Lithographic Institute of Pacher in Nuremberg. Sperl was educated here for lithographers.

From the winter semester 1858/1859 on he was able to fulfill a long -held desire with the visit of drawing courses at the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts. The Institute initiated at the time of the respected, versatile history painter and sculptor August von Kreling. In the School of Art Sperl learned the painter Rudolf Hirth du Frênes and Theodor Alt know that in 1865 at the Academy in Munich met again and would later belong to the narrower Leibl circle. 1863 Sperl was appointed head of a lithographic facility in Arnstadt in Thuringia.

Academy time

In the spring of 1865 Sperl continued in this capacity, after he had finally acquired the necessary resources to attend the academy in Munich can. The young Sperl was allowed to be proud of, and rightly, that it was this talent and also was included in the painting class of the historical painter Hermann Anschütz in October 1865 the same. In 1865 he first met Wilhelm Leibl, with whom he henceforth shared a lifelong friendship.

The climax and conclusion of the apprenticeship at the Academy then was the very famous Master Class Karl Theodor von Piloty, who was known far beyond the borders of Munich as a painter of large-scale history paintings. Among his pupils were advanced: Hans Makart, Franz Spranger, Eduard Schleich the Elder, Franz von Defregger, Gabriel Max, among others

Studies at Ramberg

In the spring of 1866 Arthur von Ramberg was appointed from Weimar to Munich, where he became the master class. Sperl, who had found a very warm relationship with Ramberg, initially remained his student and left the Academy after his death in early 1875.

Despite his membership in the Leibl circle the training had at Ramberg absolute priority, especially Sperl had matured artistically early seventies so far that he could now take more challenging compositions in attack. From about 1875 on Sperl declined from the previous large multi-figured image formats to smaller compositions over.

In 1878 he moved with Wilhelm Leibl after Berbling, in December 1878 met Coming Max Liebermann of Venice, in Munich. Sperl has probably met sometime during the year 1879 Leibl Liebermann. Early eighties Sperl began getting further explore the landscape painting.

Last years of life

End of 1882 moved Sperl after Kraiburg am Inn on, the friends he had recommended for its beautiful location. 1883 moved Sperl with Wilhelm Leibl in his newly built studio to Bad Aibling. In May 1899 Sperl took a trip to Italy, he was in Florence, Siena and Venice. The journey to the south could give him no new impulses. On 24 May 1910 a hot spring day, until then all rising in his painting Sperl at the age of nearly seventy years ago broke the easel amidst a flowered meadow above cutter compact together. He had suffered a stroke, which led to a partial paralysis of the right half of the body. On 23 July 1914 a few days before the outbreak of the First World War, died Johann Sperl. The last wish was granted him: He was buried at the cemetery in Würzburg next to the friend Wilhelm Leibl in the First Department, 50 meters south of the funeral parlor.