Karl Ludwig Frommel

Carl Ludwig Frommel ( born April 29, 1789 Castle Birkenfeld, Baden, † February 6, 1863 in Ispringen near Pforzheim, Baden ) was a German draftsman, painter, etcher, copper and steel engraver, who was known especially for his landscape paintings.

Life

Carl Ludwig Frommel is born as the third child of the country builder and architect Wilhelm Frommel (1759-1837) and Sophia Magdalena Schneider ( 1766-1804 ). He studied painting and engraving in 1805 in Karlsruhe. His teachers were Philipp Jakob Becker and the court engraver Christian Haldenwang. In 1809 he traveled to Paris. Empress Joséphine gave him there an order for a twelve -part cycle of large-format landscape watercolors.

As of 1813, Frommel held up in Italy. He lived for some time in Rome, where he moved in the environment of the Nazarene. With the rising young architect Friedrich von Gärtner and Joseph Daniel Ohlmüller he traveled to Sicily. His painter friend Ferdinand and Friedrich Olivier, Johann Christian Rist and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld he accompanied in the summer of 1817 on a trip through the province. Then Frommel returned to Karlsruhe.

After his return he was appointed at age 28 in Karlsruhe professor of painting and copper engravers. The art was founded in 1818 and industry association for the Grand Duchy of Baden counted Frommel to its founding members.

In a study in London 1824 Frommel suited to the new technology of steel engraving: 1820 Charles Heath had published in England for the first time illustrative engravings that there already enjoyed great popularity. After his return Frommel opened along with the Englishman Henry Winkles, who also for William Tombleson ( also London) worked, 1824 in Karlsruhe, a studio for steel engraver, the first of its kind in Germany.

On April 19, 1826, he married ( in 2nd marriage ) in Strasbourg, Alsace, the pastor's daughter Jeanne Henriette Gambs ( 1801-1865 ), the mother of the sons mentioned below.

From 1829 - the year Johann Poppel learned from him the art of steel piercing - until his retirement in 1858 Frommel resignation was also a director of the Grand Ducal paintings gallery. Under his leadership, the construction of the modern State Art Gallery was built ( designed by Henry Pretty, completed 1847). After his retirement he moved back to Baden -Baden.

Genealogy

Carl Ludwig Frommel had an adopted son and three biological children:

  • Karl Lindemann - Frommel (1819-1891): painter.
  • Emil Frommel (1828-1896): Protestant priest, writer and court preacher of Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • Max Frommel (1830-1890): theologian and pastor of the church in Altlutheranischen Ispringen.
  • Otto Frommel (1835-1861): painter.

Other relatives are:

His uncle Edward Frommel (1761-1824), Upper auditor in Karlsruhe, father of: Wilhelm Ludwig Frommel (1795-1869), priest, deacon in Pforzheim, father of: Wilhelm Christoph Frommel (1829-1896), priest, founder Chapel church in Heidelberg, father of: Otto Frommel (1871-1951): poet and theologian; Nephew of Emil Frommel and father of: Wolfgang Frommel (1902-1986): writer. Gerhard Frommel (1906-1984): Composer.

Works

Carl Ludwig Frommel produced mainly landscapes.

An important part of his work are views of landscapes and monuments in his adopted hometown of Baden, of which many appeared for the first time in popular pictorial representations:

  • Carlsruhe in picturesque views / by C. Frommel. In addition to historical and topographical description of A. Schreiber / Carlsruhe 1827 (reprint 1983: ISBN 3-7650-9021-2 )
  • 50 Pictures to Virgil's Aeneid / Gest. under d shows LINE v. C. Frommel / Aug. Klose and C. Frommel / Carlsruhe 1828
  • 30 pictures of Horace's works / Gest. under d shows LINE v. C. Frommel after Zeichngn v. Catel, Frommel etc / Carlsruhe, Art Publishers, 1830
  • The picturesque and romantic Rhineland: Prints Karl Simrock's work of the same name; Printed from the original plates; multi-part work of 3 folders of C. Frommel, T. Verhas and old, Leipzig ( without year), according to DNB 1840 ( reprint 1975: ISBN 3-487-08100-8 )
  • Baden and its surroundings in picturesque views / Professor Frommel. With a historical and topographical description of Councillor Schreiber; Marx; Karlsruhe, Baden; 1843 (reprint 1979: ISBN 3-88379-098-2 )

Popular were Frommels romantic vistas of Greece and Italy, the epitome of bourgeois aspirations were at that time. Meyers encyclopedia from 1888 judges Frommels work:

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