Tegernsee Week: Visitors experience the court painter Stieler up close
Created: 01/10/2022, 17:00
Stieler expert and author Sonja Still gave the visitors an impression of how Joseph Stieler lived and worked in his house on the Point.
© Thomas Plettenberg
Visitors to the Tegernseer Woche were given rare insights into the life of the court painter Joseph Stieler.
They also got to see new artworks.
Tegernsee
– It was a touching evening.
As part of Tegernseer Woche, those interested were invited to a "Royal Soirée at the court painter Stieler's" - in his former summer house on Tegernseer Point, where the artist is said to have felt more at home than anywhere else and where the Stieler family had a lively salon for a long time. cultivated culture.
This was followed by the event, when Stieler's studio became a lecture room and local guide and author Sonja Still got an inquisitive audience in the mood for the paintings, which could later be admired in the next room.
These include the four portraits that the owner Andreas Greither bought at the Munich auction house Neumeister in March last year.
Stieler had built the house in Tegernsee at the behest of the king
"It's a pleasure to see the couple together again," said Still, welcoming guests to this special evening, which was sold out well in advance.
First of all, she took the visitors into history.
A pen and ink drawing from 1878 gave an idea of what the house looked like when you reached it via steps from the Leeberg, because there were no roads on Tegernsee for a long time.
At the behest of King Ludwig I, court painter Stieler had a summer house built here - just a stone's throw away from the palace and lake and in the midst of an inspiring landscape.
Even as a small boy, Joseph Stieler painted masterfully
The artist was born in the Palatinate in 1781, where his father, August Friedrich Stieler, was a coin engraver and miniature painter at the Mainz court.
His youngest of five children learned to draw from him and, even as a little boy, was more masterful than his brothers.
Joseph Stieler dealt with his father's early death by painting.
Underlaid with paintings, Still drew the path by which Stieler, who today would probably be described as a trendsetter and who “invented and shaped the pictorial language of Bavaria”, became court painter.
How he was valued because he didn't just depict his portraits;
and, as not only the example of Ludwig van Beethoven showed, far more masterly than contemporary colleagues.
Among those marked were Goethe and Humboldt
Stieler managed to put the essence of the painted person into the pictures, which received a special liveliness through their composition of backgrounds, robes and colors.
Among those marked were Goethe, Humboldt, Schelling, of course the members of the royal family and the famous portraits of women in the "Beauty Gallery", which was realized in contrast to the planned Science Gallery.
The self-portraits that the artist made like business cards to show customers his skills are impressive.
He painted them with a double mirror, Still explained.
Because that was not a suitable means for the right hand, i.e. the painting and moving hand, the painter had a plaster cast of this hand made as a model.
You could also see this in the original.
Just like the princesses Adelgunde and Hildegard.
Paintings in this constellation can only be seen once
For safety reasons, the paintings were only shown once in this constellation, explains organizer Birgit Halmbacher.
But you have ideas on how to present Stieler pictures again.
That evening, like all the other guests at the soirée, she enjoyed looking at these special treasures and engaging in lively conversations about the painter, the paintings and his time.
In the style of a salon.
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