Discover etcher, lithographer, painter Wilhelm Trübner

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: Trübner, (Heinrich) Wilhelm
signed with W. Trübner

Qualifications: etcher, lithographer, painter, director of art institution, director of academy

Nationality/school: German

Born: Heidelberg 1851-02-03

Deceased: Karlsruhe 1917-12-21

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Son of the gold and silversmith Johann Georg and his wife Anna Maria Trübner

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

Leibl, Wilhelm

member of Leibl's circle

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2 hits in RKDimages as provenance
7 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

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Biographical information

Education: Akademie für Gold- und Silberschmiedekunst (Hanau)

1867
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe (Zweigstelle Karlsruhe)

In 1867 he began to study at the Kunstschule in Karlsruhe, where his tutors included Karl Friedrich Schick (Turner et al. 1996)
Akademie der Bildenden Künste (München)

Trübner moved to Munich in 1869 to study with Alexander von Wagner at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste from 1869 to Winter 1871 , where he also met Wilhelm. (Turner et al. 1996)

Active in

Hanau (Darmstadt) 1867
year of study at the Akademie für Gold- und Silberschmiedekunst in Hanau (Heilmann/Bahns 1995)
Karlsruhe 1867 - 1868
Recommend in 1868 to study at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Münich (Heilmann/Bahns 1995)
München 1868 - 1869
Stuttgart 1869
Autumn 1869 pupil of Hans Canon in Stuttgart (Heilmann/Bahns 1995)
Bernried 1871
in Summer 1871 he worked with Wilhelm Leibl in Bernried on the Starnberg Lake (Thieme/Becker 1907-1950)
Heidelberg 1871
Autumn 1871 in Heidelberg (Heilmann/Bahns 1995)
München 1871
Venetië 1872
Florence 1872
Rome 1872
Trübner made in 1872 a long study trip to Italy, to Venice, Florence and Rome, where he met Anselm Feurerbach (Thieme/Becker 1907-1950; Heilmann/Bahns 1995)
München 1873 - 1896
Trübner settles for a longer stay in Münich (Heilmann/Bahns 1995); returned 1875 to Munich after vast foreign travels (Trepesch et al. 2007)
Brussel 1874
in January 1874 trip to Brussels (Heilmann/Bahns 1995)
Nederland 1874
Den Haag (stad) 1874
trip to The Hague where a visit was made to the art dealer Goupil ((Heilmann/Bahns 1995)
Chiemsee (meer) 1891
prolonged study trip to Fraueninsel, an island in the Chiemsee and the monastery Seon
Ermatingen 1891
study trip along Lake Constance/Bodensee
Schwarzwald (woud) 1891
worked on mount Plättig in the Black Forest
München 1892 - 1896
joined the Munich Sezession together with Lovis Corinth and Max Slevogt in 1892; 1894 he joined the Freie Vereinigung of Art-Nouveau artists
Italië 1896
after 1896
Nederland 1896
after 1896
België 1896
after 1896
Frankrijk 1896
after 1896
Zwitserland 1896
after 1896
Verenigd Koninkrijk 1896
Londen (Engeland) 1896
After 1896, when he left the Münich, he travelled widely, visiting Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland and England. In London he met important academicians such as Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Hubert von Herkomer and Frederic Leighton (Turner et al. 1996)
Frankfurt am Main 1896 - 1903
In 1896 he became Director of the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main, and the following year he founded a private art school there. (Turner et al. 1996)
Karlsruhe 1903 - 1917
In 1903 he was appointed Director of the Kunstschule in Karlsruhe (Turner et al. 1996)

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Canon, Hans
Diez, Wilhelm von
Schick, Rudolf
Wagner, Alexander von
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Bandell, Eugenie Luise
Bärenfanger, Karl
Beithan, Emil
Bollschweiler, Jacob Friedrich
Dethleffs-Edelmann, Friedel
Goebel, Hermann
Schinnerer, Adolf Ferdinand
Scholz, Georg
Sutter, Hans
Taets von Amerongen, Friedrich
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Canon, Hans
Leibl, Wilhelm
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Aigner, Eduard
Corinth, Lovis

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: animal painting (genre), figure, genre, history (genre), landscape (genre), portrait, still life

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 7 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 33 (1939), p. 447-450
Meier-Graefe/Reifenberg/Meier-Graefe-Broch 1966 , p. 342-352, ill..
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 10, p. 290-291
Busse 1977 , p. 1259
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 308
Ludwig 1978 , vol. 4, p. 271-275
Heilmann/Bahns 1995 , passim and esp. p. 73-78
Turner et al. 1996 , vol. 31, p. 389
Saur 1999-2000 , vol. 10, p. 47
Kraan 2002 , p. 154
Trepesch et al. 2007 , passim and p. 180
Mai 2010 , passim

Auction 'Nachlaß Wilhelm Trübner', Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 4 and 5 June 1918 (424 numbers)
M. Bringmann, 'Das Gemälde ''Cäsar am Rubikone'' von Wilhelm Trübner-oder: Wie die Historienmalerei auf den Hund kam', Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Württemberg 28 (1991), p. 105-129
H. Biedermann, 'Zwei Frühwerke von Wilhelm Trübner aus Italien', Dresdener Kunstblätter 2/2013, p. 14-19

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