Karl Hübner
Carl Wilhelm Hübner ( born June 17, 1814 Königsberg, † December 5, 1879 in Dusseldorf ) was a German genre and landscape painter of the Romantic period.
Life
His first art lessons got Hübner Professor Johann Eduard Wolff in his hometown. Through its promotion Hübner was recorded in 1837 at age 23 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. He remained there until 1841, where he was a student of Wilhelm von Schadow and Carl Ferdinand Sohn.
Hübner is considered a representative of the Düsseldorf School. From 1841 he led his own studio. Huebner's main works are oil paintings depicting scenes of everyday life, especially scenes of human and social conflicts. His attention was often considering " the other side", such as the life of thieves, smugglers or poachers.
A well-known work is the painting The Silesian Weavers, in which under the influence of Weber uprising the human, social and thus political conflicts of the workers' existence in the sign of the changing world in the mid-19th century based on the representation of a bourgeois manufacturer and by him find Weber dependent expression. The image was shown in 1844 under large crowds in Cologne, Berlin, Halberstadt and other German locations. It is related in style and statement with little William Broich Painting The milling and slaughter tax.
1847 Huebner took an extended study tour of the United States. His sketches that ensued, after his return formed the basis of many of his pictures. On August 6, 1848 Huebner was instrumental in the founding of the Artists' Union paintbox and some time also its chairman. The association Düsseldorf artists considered him to his board, he also was a member of various other academies. He signed with Carl Hübner or C. Hübner.
Carl Hübner paid homage to the spirit of its immense creative power, but lacked his images in the eyes of contemporary critics on " academic sense ." They accused him of "realism " in front in the sense that he usually did without sentimentality and idealization of the action depicted in his paintings. That is why Hübner was of the later criticism, especially in the art scientific appraisal of the 1970s, stylized to a " German Courbet ". Lilian country other hand, sees a painting Huebner's "only partially the courage to change Conceding innovation ".
Works (selection)
- The Silesian Weavers (1st and 2nd version, 1844, 3rd edition, 1846)
- Hunting rights (also known as a lithograph by Wildt later)
- The Emigrants (1846 )
- The Auspfändung (1847 )
- The wedding proposal ( 1850)
- Rescuing from fire (1853 )
- The orphans
- Gemini
- The widow
- When Schreiber ( 1863)
- The Sinner at the church door (1867 )
- Fencing (undated )