Wilhelm von Kobell
Paintings
Riders at the Tegernsee
On the Gaisalm
Cattle Market before a Large City on a Lake
Horsemen near Munich
Austrian Soldiers
View into the valley of Kreuth
Hunters on horseback in the Upper Bavarian landscape
Munich, view Isar section from north
Munich, View of the north, in the foreground tab
Munich, overview, foreground Hofkutsche in the Isar
Am Ammersee, view from the northwest
Drawings
Postilion on Horse in a Winter Landscape
Studies of Horsewomen
Three studies on a man on a saddle
Aschaffenburg, Castle of the East
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Castle from the west
Munich, View of Neuhausen, foreground tab and Women
Munich, fairground outside the city walls
Am Ammersee, view from the northwest
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Cattle Market before a Large City on a Lake
Wilhelm von Kobell (6 April 1766 – 15 July 1853) was a German artist, a painter, printmaker and teacher.
Biography
Wilhelm von Kobell - Cattle Market before a Large City on a Lake, 1820
Kobell was born in Mannheim, the son of Ferdinand Kobell, a landscape painter who cited Claude Lorrain as his influence. Wilhelm's initial lessons were supplied by his father and his uncle, Franz Kobell. He received further training under Franz Anton von Leydendorf and Egid Verhelst in the art of engraving at the Zeichnungsakademie in Mannheim. He studied the works in the galleries of Mannheim and Düsseldorf, especially those of Wouvermann, which he copied.[1] During this time he practiced various styles, including 17th-century Dutch painting and 18th-century English art.
In 1778, he went to Rome, was made court painter at Mannheim after his return, and afterwards followed his father to Munich, where he became professor at the Academy in 1808.[2] He was supported by Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, who compensated him an annual sum of 500 florins from 1792 until Theodore's death in 1799. In 1809, he visited Vienna, and in 1810 Paris, to make studies for his battle pieces.[2]
Works
His early paintings were landscapes, rural genre scenes, and animal pieces, of which the galleries of Bamberg, Weimar, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Berlin, Darmstadt, Frankfurt, and Wiesbaden contain fine specimens. Throughout his life Kobell traveled to England, France and Italy but ultimately based his style on Dutch art.[3] He gained a reputation through clever work on battle scenes and horses, as well as his very fine etchings and his especially fine aquatint engravings after Wouverman, Berchem, Roos, Ruysdael, and others, in which he reproduced the peculiar style of each master with uncommon success.[1] His battle pieces contain many portraits of famous contemporaries. The New Pinakothek in Munich contains “The Third Day of the Battle of Hanau” (1808), and the Banquet Hall of the Königsbau the “Surrender of Brieg,” “Cavalry Skirmish at Arnhofen,” and the “Battles of Eckmühl and Wagram.”[2]
On Gaisalm
Reiter am Tegernsee
Landscape near Munich
A Country Lane, 1821, Hamburger Kunsthalle
CityscapeExternal links
Further reading
Kobell, Luise von, Unter den vier Königen Bayerns (Munich, 1894)
References
This article incorporates text from publications now in the public domain.
Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Kobell, Wilhelm von". Encyclopedia Americana.
Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Kobell". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
Emil Kren and Daniel Marx. "Wilhelm von Kobell". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved March 26, 2008.
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