Moritz Kellerhoven
Moritz Keller Hoven (* 1758 in Altenrath, † December 15, 1830 in Munich) was a German portrait painter and etcher.
Life
Moritz Keller Hoven was born the son of the host Wilhelm Keller Hoven and his wife Juliane in Wittelsbach Duchy of Berg. His father died early, and the boy came to Dusseldorf in the care of his maternal uncle, a clergyman. This raised him and enabled him to prepare for the clergy to study. Since Moritz Kellerhoven this felt no vocation, he attended from the age of 17, the Dusseldorf Art Academy, where he was a pupil of Lambert Krahe ( 1712-1790 ).
Further study led him to Antwerp, London and Paris. In 1779 he went to Vienna in 1782 to Italy. Kellerhoven earned a good name as a painter, why Elector Karl Theodor in 1784 he was appointed court painter to Munich. 1808, in the reorganization of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, he became the first professor there. The director of the house, Professor Johann Peter von Langer, he knew from Dusseldorf. Here he worked until his death as a teacher and efficient organizer of the school operation. He is considered one of the greatest portrait painter of his era and painted many persons from the ruling house of Wittelsbach and its environment.
Keller Hoven's most famous work is the life-size portrait of King Max I Joseph in his coronation robes, which he painted for the University of Landshut and which is often reproduces today in historical publications. In 1818 he created the picture again in a variation in which additionally supports King Max with his hand on the new constitution. Numerous celebrities were happy for Kellerhoven, including Queen Caroline of Bavaria, King Ludwig I as Crown Prince, King Gustavus IV of Sweden and his wife Friederike Dorothea of Baden (as they were staying in Munich), Archduke Charles of Austria, Auguste Amalie von Leuchtenberg, the Munich archbishop Lothar Anselm of Gebsattel, the bishops Ignaz Albert of Riegg from Augsburg, Franz Xaver Schwäbl of Regensburg, Auxiliary Bishop Franz Ignaz von nerds, the historian Lawrence of Westenrieder, Johann Goswin Aries and the scientist Count Rumford. Most of these portraits were copied by other artists as stitches or lithographs. Moritz Keller Hoven also produced a self-portrait as an etching. Similarly, engravings and lithographs from his hand known.
Keller Hoven's obituary states that: " Drawing, coloring, plastic perfection and vibrant opinion ," his paintings were characterized. He has created portraits of several members of the higher clergy, especially in the last years; "In their Amtsornate, mostly in half-length ... which can be placed on similarity, pithy and vigorous treatment of varied fabrics, silk, velvet, enamel and precious stones, just to the side ." These portraits also includes the pictured paintings of the Munich archbishop Lothar Anselm of Gebsattel, which has a very fine color composition with high luminosity and especially in the silks and albums peaks almost photographically illustrated the outstanding talent basement Hovens disclosed.
Kellerhoven was married and out of the compound were several daughters and a son out. The son of Joseph Kellerhoven (1789-1849) also lived as a renowned portrait painter in Speyer and painted several of the local bishops and a variety of Palatine notables. He had the art of painting among others learned from his father at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he studied from 1809.
Moritz Keller Hoven was suffering in his last years strong at the throat. Since the spring of 1830 more and more obsolete, the painter died on December 15, 1830 in Munich, which was on the 17th with great sympathy on the then main cemetery, now age Südfriedhof, buried. His grave is there still preserved.