Ferdinand Kobell
Ferdinand Kobell | |
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![]() Ferdinand Kobell, by Wilhelm Friedrich Schlotterbeck | |
Born | |
Died | 1 February 1799 | (aged 58)
Nationality | German |
Occupation(s) | painter and copper engraver |
Known for | landscapes |
Parents |
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Relatives | Johann Heinrich Kobell, grandfather, grocer |
Ferdinand Kobell (7 June 1740, Mannheim – 1 February 1799, Munich) was a German painter and copper engraver.
Biography
His family was originally from Hesse. His grandfather, Johann Heinrich Kobell, was a prosperous grocer who came to Mannheim from Frankfurt-am-Main in 1720. His parents were Balthasar Kobell (d.1762), an entrepreneur and Court Councilor, and Maria Franziska née Mezinger (1718-1762).
He initially studied law in Heidelberg, becoming a secretary to the court in 1760, but he soon turned his attention to painting. He was released from service, and obtained a scholarship to attend the Mannhiem Drawing Academy . In 1764, he started work as a theatrical painter and married Maria Anna Lederer (1744-1820), daughter of one of the Court Councilors.[1] They had seven children, including Wilhelm von Kobell, who became a landscape, animal and battle painter.
In 1766, he was appointed court painter. To complete his training, he took an eighteen-month study trip to Paris, where he made contact with the expatriate German engraver, Johann Georg Wille.[2]
In 1794, when his court patron, Elector Charles Theodore decided to move from Mannheim to Munich, he followed him there. In 1798, he was named Director of the Palatinate Painting Gallery , which had been moved from Düsseldorf to Mannheim, but he died before he could return there and take up his post.
He specialized in landscapes, inspired by the style of Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem. His oil paintings are in a number of German galleries (Karlsruhe, Darmstadt, Stuttgart, and Augsburg), but his work as an engraver is considered more important. His etchings (about 300) were published by Frauenholz, in Munich (1809), as Œuvres complètes de Ferdinand Kobell. More were published by Kugler (Stuttgart, 1842).
Gallery
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A Battle Scene
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Landscape
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Bridge over the Main at Aschaffenburg
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The Old Bridge in Heidelberg
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Shepherds at Rest
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
Further reading
- Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart (1882), "Kobell, Ferdinand", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 16, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 350–355
- Joseph August Beringer: Ferdinand Kobell: eine Studie über sein Leben und Schaffen. Hahn, Mannheim 1909.
- Margret Biedermann: Ferdinand Kobell: 1740–1799; das malerische und zeichnerische Werk. Galerie Margret Biedermann, München 1973.
- Margret Biedermann (1980), "Kobell, Ferdinand", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 12, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 236–237; (full text online)
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- Literature by and about Ferdinand Kobell in the German National Library catalogue
- "Works by Ferdinand Kobell". Zeno.org (in German).
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