Discover painter, draftsperson Wilhelm Leibl

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: Leibl, Wilhelm Maria Hubertus

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson

Nationality/school: German

Born: Keulen 1844-10-23

Deceased: Würzburg 1900-12-04

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of the musical director of Cologne cathedral

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Had a joint studio with Hirth, Alt and Sperl in the Arcisstrasse in Munich. With Schuch, Trübner and Schider he formed after 1870 in Munich the 'Leibl-Kreis'.

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21 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

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Biographical information

Education: Königliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste (München)

under professors Alexander Straehuber and Hermann Anschütz

Active in

Keulen 1860 - 1864
started his artistic carreer as pupil of Hermann Becker
München 1864 - 1869
pupil at the Royal Academy; a joint studio with colleagues since 1866; met with Gustave Courbet in Munich after the 1st International Exhibition in the Glass-Palast, who stimulated him to come to Paris
Parijs 1869 - 1870
on the advise of Courbet
München 1870 - 1873
After 1870 the artistic climate in Munich started to bother him so much, that he retired after 1873 more and more to the country .
Graßlfing 1873 - 1874
Unterschondorf 1875
Berbling 1878 - 1880
Bad Aibling 1878 - 1881
Keulen 1887 - 1888
Kutterling 1892
Amsterdam (stad) 1898
visited the Rembrandt exhibition, after 8 September (Stückelberger 1996, p. 54)
Haarlem (stad) 1898-09-14
visited the Frans Hals Museum (visitors book, Häder 1999, p. 266)
Zandvoort (plaats) 1898-09

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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.: Anschütz, Hermann
Becker, Hermann
Piloty, Karl Theodor
Ramberg, Arthur George 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.: Hirth du Frênes, Rudolf
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Alt, Theodor Zacharias Friedrich
Becker-Gundahl, Carl Johann
Corinth, Lovis
Slevogt, Max
Trübner, Wilhelm
Heisig, Bernhard
Chase, William Merrit
Duveneck, Frank

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.: genre, portrait

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 21 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 22 (1928), p. 587
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 348
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 6, p. 550-551
Busse 1977 , p. 476
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 172
Ludwig 1978
Röhrl 1994 , C. Stuckenbrock, Wilhelm Leibl und die niederländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, p. 114-123
Stückelberger 1996 , p. 54
Häder 1999 , passim
Kraan 2002 , p. 123, 152-155, 240, 246
Mai 2010 , passim
Ludewig/Schoeps/Sonder 2012 , passim
Saur 1992- , vol. 83 (2014), p. 536

Auction Hamburg (Ketterer Kunst) 04-12-1998, no. 294-312 (prints)
M. von Manstein, 'Mit stechendem Blick', Kunstwelt 74 (2004), nr. 11, p. 76-79

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