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Christian Adam Landenberger (7 April 1862,
He was the second in a family of nine children. His parents operated a haulage business. He began his art studies at the Royal Art School of Stuttgart in 1879. From 1883 to 1887, he studied at the
/ref> He exhibited regularly until 1916. In 1895, he started a private art school and taught drawing at the Munich Association of Women Artists from 1899 to 1905. At that time, he became a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.
The municipal art museum in Albstadt, Germany ( Kunstmuseum Albstadt) has the largest collection of his work, with over 70 paintings, 200 drawings and 160 pages of print graphics.
* Nun ade, du stilles Haus (1897), Kunstmuseum Albstadt
* Portrait of , the sculptor (1906/07)
* Dame an einem Kaffeetisch I (1911)
* Der Frühling (1910/13),
Albstadt Gallery: Christian Landenberger
{{DEFAULTSORT:Landenberger, Christian 1862 births 1927 deaths Impressionist artists 19th-century German painters German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists 19th-century German male artists
Ebingen
Ebingen is a town in the large district of Albstadt, district Zollernalbkreis, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the river Schmiecha, a left-hand tributary of the Danube, south of Tübingen and west of Ulm.
History
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- 13 February 1927, Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
) was a German Impressionist
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...
painter and a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. He is especially known for his landscapes.
Life
He was the second in a family of nine children. His parents operated a haulage business. He began his art studies at the Royal Art School of Stuttgart in 1879. From 1883 to 1887, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, ...
, where he had his first exposure to the new ideas in art that were circulating there.
In 1890, he had his first public display at the Munich International Art Exhibition in the Glaspalast and, two years later, became one of the founding members of the Munich Secession
The Munich Secession was an association of visual artists who broke away from the mainstream Munich Artists' Association in 1892, to promote and defend their art in the face of what they considered official paternalism and its conservative polic ...
.Ketterer Kunst: Christian Landenberger/ref> He exhibited regularly until 1916. In 1895, he started a private art school and taught drawing at the Munich Association of Women Artists from 1899 to 1905. At that time, he became a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.
Style and technique
At first, he created realistic canvases using a dark palette. After 1890, he used brighter colors with lighting effects and broad brushstrokes. He is considered to have been one of the pioneers of Germanplein-air
''En plein air'' (; French for 'outdoors'), or ''plein air'' painting, is the act of painting outdoors.
This method contrasts with studio painting or academic rules that might create a predetermined look. The theory of 'En plein air' painting ...
painting. From 1893 to 1915, he worked on a themed series of paintings he called "Bathing Boys". His landscapes were accomplished in Norway and along the Dutch sea coast as well as in Southern Germany. After 1919, he began to produce etchings of a religious nature.
Selected works
The municipal art museum in Albstadt, Germany ( Kunstmuseum Albstadt) has the largest collection of his work, with over 70 paintings, 200 drawings and 160 pages of print graphics.
* Nun ade, du stilles Haus (1897), Kunstmuseum Albstadt
* Portrait of , the sculptor (1906/07)
* Dame an einem Kaffeetisch I (1911)
* Der Frühling (1910/13), Villa Haux
Villa Haux is a villa in the Art Nouveau style built in 1908 by architects Richard Böklen and Carl Feil in the southern German town of Ebingen.
It was built for Kommerzienrat Friedrich Haux (1860–1929), entrepreneur in the local textile in ...
, Albstadt
Albstadt () is the largest city in the district of Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the Swabian Jura mountains, about halfway between Stuttgart and Lake Constance.
Geography
Albstadt is spread across a variety of ...
-Ebingen
Ebingen is a town in the large district of Albstadt, district Zollernalbkreis, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the river Schmiecha, a left-hand tributary of the Danube, south of Tübingen and west of Ulm.
History
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* Portrait of Brigitte Gussmann (1916)
References
Sources and further reading
* Edeltraud Brockmüller: ''Christian Landenberger (1862-1927) in der Städtischen Galerie Albstadt. Ständige Ausstellung''. Städtische Galerie Albstadt, Albstadt 1985, * Isabel Grüner: ''Impressionismus im deutschen Südwesten. Otto Reiniger, Hermann Pleuer, Heinrich von Zügel, Christian Landenberger''. Kunststiftung Hohenkarpfen / Kunstverein Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg, Hausen ob Verena 1997, * Heinz Höfchen: ''Christian Landenberger (1862-1927). Studien zum Werk. Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und der Druckgraphik''. Dissertation, Universität Mainz 1983 * Heinz Höfchen: ''Christian Landenberger''. Theiss, Stuttgart 1986, (with Chronology) * Eva Moser: ''Landschaft im Licht. Die Bodenseebilder Christian Landenbergers''. In: Leben am See. Vol.IX (1991), , S. 323–328 * Anne Peters (Ed.): ''Christian Landenberger. Zeichnungen''. Städtische Galerie Albstadt, Albstadt 1993,External links
Albstadt Gallery: Christian Landenberger
{{DEFAULTSORT:Landenberger, Christian 1862 births 1927 deaths Impressionist artists 19th-century German painters German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists 19th-century German male artists