Wilhelm Trübner

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Wilhelm Trübner
Realism
SpouseAlice Trübner née Auerbach[1]

Wilhelm Trübner (February 3, 1851 – December 21, 1917) was a German

realist painter of the circle of Wilhelm Leibl
.

Biography

Trübner was born in

academic
tradition.

Scuffling Boys (1872)

In 1870 he made the acquaintance of Carl Schuch and Albert Lang. In August 1871, the three artists painted landscapes together during hikes in Hohenschwangau and Bernried, where they met Leibl.[2] In 1872 Trübner met Hans Thoma, another German painter who greatly admired the unsentimental realism of Wilhelm Leibl. Together Trübner, Schuch, Lang, and Thoma formed the core of the group of artists known as the "Leibl circle".

Carpenters on the Banks of Wessling Lake (1876)

The early 1870s were a period of discovery for Trübner. He travelled to Italy, Holland and Belgium, and in Paris encountered the art of Manet, whose influence can be seen in the spontaneous yet restrained style of Trübner's portraits and landscapes. According to art historian Eberhard Ruhmer, "Trübner reached his relatively brief artistic peak between 1872 and 1876, during which time he made some of the most important contributions to the Leibl circle’s achievement and produced the most effective examples of what he called 'purist painting'" – paintings in which formal concerns take precedence over subject.[3] His works of this period, such as On the Sofa (1872) and Carpenters on the Banks of Wessling Lake (1876), depict prosaic scenes with a somber realism and subdued color. Subsequently, Trübner attempted to achieve greater success by brightening his palette, and he frequently painted historical and literary subjects.[3]

He published writings on art theory in 1892 and 1898, which express above all the idea that "beauty must lie in the painting itself, not in the subject".[5] By urging the viewer to discover beauty in a painting's formal values, its colors, proportions, and surface, Trübner advanced a philosophy of "art for art's sake". In 1901 he joined the recently formed Berlin Secession,[6] at the time Germany's most important forum for the exhibition of avant-garde art. From 1903 until his death in 1917 he was a professor at the Academy of Arts in Karlsruhe, also serving as director from 1904 to 1910.[7]

Trübner's paintings are in many public collections, especially in Germany, including the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, and the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.

Gallery

  • On the Sofa (1872)
    On the Sofa (1872)
  • Silver and Roses (1873)
    Silver and Roses (1873)
  • Great Dane with Sausages: "Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant" (1877)
    Great Dane with Sausages: "Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant" (1877)
  • Dante's Inferno (1880)
    Dante's Inferno (1880)
  • The Death of Pope Alexander VI (1883)
    The Death of Pope Alexander VI (1883)
  • Gorgon (1891)
    Gorgon (1891)
  • Ermatingen am Bodensee (1894), gouache on paper
    Ermatingen am Bodensee (1894), gouache on paper
  • Portrait of a Nun in a Summer Garden (ca. 1900)
    Portrait of a Nun in a Summer Garden (ca. 1900)
  • Karl Haberstock (1914)
    Karl Haberstock (1914)
  • Aussichtsplatz am Starnberger See (1911)
    Aussichtsplatz am Starnberger See (1911)

Notes

  1. ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7. Retrieved 17 April 2021. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help
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  2. ^ a b c d e Bahns et al. 1994, p. 73.
  3. ^ a b c Ruhmer, E. (2003, January 01). "Trübner, (Heinrich) Wilhelm". Grove Art Online.
  4. ^ Forster-Hahn et al. 2001, p. 155
  5. ^ Forster-Hahn et al. 2001, p. 154.
  6. ^ Bahns et al. 1994, p. 76.
  7. ^ Bahns et al. 1994, pp. 76–77.

References

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