Wilhelm Leibl

Wilhelm Maria Hubertus Leibl ( born October 23, 1844 in Cologne, † December 4, 1900 in Würzburg) was a painter a major representative of realism in Germany.

Life

Wilhelm Leibl was the fifth of six children of Cologne Kapellmeister Carl Leibl and his wife Maria Gertrud Lemper. Grandparents were Karl Ferdinand Leibl and Maria Theresia Regina Wagner from Landau and Dr. Jacob Lemper, a professor at the Cologne School Montanum, and Anna Catharina Franziska Blanck from Cologne.

Wilhelm Leibl left school early and received his first training canceled an apprenticeship with Hermann Becker in Cologne. From 1864 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with the teachers Hermann Anschütz, Alexander Strähuber, Arthur Georg von Ramberg and 1868 Carl Theodor von Piloty. In 1869 he shared a studio together in Munich with the painters Theodor Alt, Rudolf Hirth du Frênes and Johann Sperl. The main work of this early period, the portrait of the woman Gedon (1868 /69 Munich, Neue Pinakothek ), brought him into friendly contact with Gustave Courbet. The Frenchman Courbet had attracted a lot of attention with its realistic images and their egalitarian surface structure. Leibl traveled in 1870 to a short stay in Paris, where he met Édouard Manet.

In Munich, Leibl 1870 gathered like-minded painters, the Leibl circle to look ( Wilhelm Trübner, Carl Schuch, Theodor Alt, Karl Haider, temporarily Hans Thoma ). Since 1873, Leibl withdrew from Munich art world and lived with the painter Johann Sperl in Berbling and Bad Aibling in Bavaria. In 1892 the Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria was appointed royal professor. It was heavy with heart trouble breathing, so I went in May / June 1900 for a cure to Bad Nauheim and when his suffering worse in a clinic in Würzburg, where he died with dropsy.

Quotes

" I have always worked and lived in the poorest conditions and to stifle the anger, ill- known and despised to see my views "

" Back, I must die! "

Commemoration

His bust -up took place in the hall of fame in Munich. 1931 Wilhelm-Leibl - street was named in Vienna Hietzing after him.

Wilhelm Leibl's grave is located in the main cemetery of Würzburg in the First Department, 50 meters south of the funeral parlor. His 1914 deceased painter friend John Sperl was buried in the same grave.

Services

Wilhelm Leibl is the most important painters of realism and a naturalistic style in Germany. His pictures of rural Upper Bavaria have nothing of idyll or genre -like narrative pleasure, but are characterized by unadorned representation of the people. His detailed painting approached from 1890 to impressionism, but he always preserved the closed physicality of his characters. Leibl was human actor in the first place.

Works

• Self-portrait as an eight- year-old Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover 1862
• Head of a blind man, Lenbachhaus to 1867-1869, oil on canvas
• Woman Gedon (Munich, Neue Pinakothek ), 1869, oil on canvas, 119.5 x 93.7 cm
• The young Parisian woman (Cologne, Wallraf -Richartz Museum ), 1869, oil on wood, 64.5 x 52.5 cm ( image)
• Sleeping Savoyard Boy (St. Petersburg, Hermitage ), 1869, oil on wood, 44 x 64 cm
• The painter Paul von Szinyei - Merse (Budapest, Muzeum Szépmüvészeti ), 1869, oil on canvas, 139.5 x 102 cm
• The old Parisian (Cologne, Wallraf -Richartz Museum ), 1869-70, oil on wood, 81.5 x 64.5 cm
• The Painter Sattler with his Great Dane (Munich, Neue Pinakothek ), 1870, oil on panel, 72.5 x 62 cm
• Concert Study ( Cologne, Wallraf -Richartz Museum ), 1870, oil on wood, 44 x 40 cm
• Johann Heinrich Pallenberg (Cologne, Wallraf -Richartz Museum ), 1871, oil on canvas, 118 x 95.5 cm
• Lina church Dorffer (Munich, Neue Pinakothek, inv. No. 8446 ), 1871, oil on canvas, 111.5 x 83.2 cm
• Dachauerin with child ( Berlin, Old National Gallery ), 1874-75, oil on wood, 86 x 68 cm
• Dachau farmers (old source: Berlin, National Gallery ), 1874-75
• The Painter Carl Schuch (Munich, Neue Pinakothek, inv. No. 8620 ), 1876, oil on canvas, 58.6 x 50.5 cm
• Farmer girl with white headscarf (Munich, Neue Pinakothek ), 1876, oil on panel, 21.5 x 17 cm
• The odd couple (Frankfurt, Städel ), 1876-77, oil on canvas, 75.5 x 61.5 cm
• The village politicians (Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Collection ), 1877, oil on canvas on wood, 76 x 97 cm
• Rosina Fischler, Countess Treuberg (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie, Inv. No. 1497 ), 1877, oil on wood, 88 x 66.8 cm
• The Spare A Dime ( Wuppertal, Von der Heydt - Museum ), 1877, oil on wood, 39 x 31 cm
• Dr. Friedrich Raue (Hamburger Kunsthalle ), 1877, tempera on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
• Rosine Fischler, Countess Treuberg (Hamburg, Kunsthalle ), 1877-78, oil on canvas, 104.1 x 82.2 cm
• Head of a peasant girl (Dresden, Gemäldegalerie ), 1879, oil on wood, 31 x 24 cm
• Head of a peasant girl (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie, Inv. No. 594 ), 1880, oil on wood, 30 x 27.5 cm
• Girl with the Carnation, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 1880, oil on wood
• The three women in the Church (Hamburg, Kunsthalle ), 1881, oil on wood, 113 x 77 cm
• The Poacher (Berlin, Old National Gallery ), 1882-86, oil on canvas, 55 x 42 cm
• In the farmhouse parlor (Munich, Neue Pinakothek ), 1890, oil on wood, 37 x 38 cm
• The vet Dt. Reindl in the arbor (Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus ), 1890, oil on wood, 26 x 19.5 cm
• Leibl and Sperl on the hunt chickens (Munich, Neue Pinakothek ), 1890-95, oil on canvas, 40 x 58 cm
• The newspaper reader (Essen, Museum Folkwang ), 1891, oil on canvas, 63 x 48.5 cm
• The Spinner (Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts), 1892, oil on canvas, 65 x 74 cm
• Knitting girls on the stove (Dresden, Gemäldegalerie ) to 1892-95, oil on canvas, 59 x 42 cm
• Girl on the stove ( Cologne, Wallraf -Richartz Museum ), 1895, oil on wood, 41 x 32 cm
• Miesbacher farmer (Wuppertal, Municipal Museum ), 1896, oil on wood, 37 x 29 cm
• In anticipation (Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts), 1898, oil on wood, 35 x 26.5 cm
• In the kitchen (Cologne, Wallraf -Richartz Museum ), 1898, oil on canvas, 84 x 64.5 cm
• Girl at the Window (Cologne, Wallraf -Richartz Museum ), 1899, oil on canvas, 109 x 72 cm