Joseph Willibald Kellerhoven (27 April 1789,

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...

- 18 June 1849,

Speyer Speyer (, older spelling ''Speier'', French: ''Spire,'' historical English: ''Spires''; pfl, Schbaija) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer li ...

) was a German portrait painter.

Biography

He was the son of

Moritz Kellerhoven Moritz Kellerhoven (1758 - 15 December 1830) was a German portrait painter and etcher. Life Kellerhoven was born in the Altenrath district of Troisdorf. He was still very young when his father died, so he was placed in the care of his maternal ...

, court painter for

Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria Charles Theodore (german: link=no, Karl Theodor; 11 December 1724 – 16 February 1799) reigned as Prince-elector and Count Palatine from 1742, as Duke of Jülich and Berg from 1742 and also as prince-elector and Duke of Bavaria from 1777 to his ...

and, in 1808, one of the first professors at the expanded

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, ...

. Joseph entered the Academy in 1809 and received practical training in the history painting department. His father was his primary teacher, but he also studied with , and

Johann Georg von Dillis Johann Georg von Dillis (26 December 1759 – 28 September 1841) was a German painter. Biography He was born in Gmain near Dorfen. Son of a gamekeeper and forester, he was educated in Munich with support from the prince-elector of Bavaria. Init ...

. He exhibited his works for the first time in 1814. In 1818, he married Friederike Feiler, the daughter of Friedrich Feiler, an official in the

Prussian Ministry of War The Prussian War Ministry was gradually established between 1808 and 1809 as part of a series of reforms initiated by the Military Reorganization Commission created after the disastrous Treaties of Tilsit. The War Ministry was to help bring the ...

. Shortly after, he moved to Speyer, to accept a position as a drawing teacher at the Royal gymnasium. In 1825, the city opened a trade school, so he left the gymnasium to accept a similar position there, as the salary was higher. Friederike died two years later, aged only twenty-nine. Both of their sons died before reaching adulthood. After 1839, he worked as an art teacher at the newly-established Catholic school. In 1840, he remarried, to Elisabeth Werner, the daughter of a local landowner. The marriage remained childless. In 1842, he suffered what was most likely a

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, which left him partially paralyzed and unable to work. Elisabeth cared for him until his death, seven years later.

Sources

* Fritz Klotz: "Der Speyerer Maler Joseph Kellerhoven". In ''Pfälzer Heimat'', 1965, pps.8–11 * Viktor Carl: ''Lexikon Pfälzer Persönlichkeiten''. Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben, 2004, pg. 434 * Georg Kaspar Nagler: ''Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon''. Vol. 6, Munich, 1838, pg. 555
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