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Wilhelm Koller

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Wilhelm Koller

Wilhelm Anton Koller, (French: Guillaume-Antoine Koller, 4, 9, or 14 May 1829 – 1884), was an Austrian-Belgian history and genre painter.

Biography

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Lady with parrot
Wilhelm Koller Albrecht Dürer is visited at work by Emperor Maximilian, 1870
Hugo van der Goe's Portrait of Mary of Burgundy, 1872

Koller was born in 1829 in Olomouc[1][2] as a son and heir of Wilhelm (Baron von) Koller (d. 21 July 1871)[3][4], Viennese manufacturer and art collector. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, then continued his studies in Düsseldorf from 1851 to 1855, drawing inspiration from the Düsseldorf school of painting. [5] He lived in Antwerp from 1856 to 1859, and then in Brussels. He married Henriette Roos, who was born in Indonesia, on 23 August 1866 in Heemstede.[6] They had three children born in Belgium. From about 1869 he lived in Paris, but soon after was again in Brussels,[7] where he lived with his family in Schaarbeek and Sint-Joost-ten-Node and became a member of a Freemason lodge.[8]

Koller primarily worked in history painting, favoring subjects from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, which he rendered with coloristic virtuosity in the historicist-Neo-Mannerist costume style. A significant part of his work consists of scenes from the Burgundian Netherlands[9] and from the life of the painter Albrecht Dürer, whose work was collected by his father. At one point he collaborated with David de Noter (1818–1892) to create several paintings. Koller was an internationally acclaimed artist of his time, being associated with the Düsseldorf and Belgian schools.[10]

In 1872 he was knighted into the Order of Leopold[11] at the Brussels Salon. He also received numerous awards from outside Belgium,[12] including the knighthood of the Order of Franz Joseph in 1874.[13] At the end of his life, he acquired Belgian citizenship.

Koller died under unclear circumstances on a country road near Nancy.[14][15]

References

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  1. ↑ Chambre des Représentants (1885). Seance du 8 Avril 1884: Naturalisation ordinaire. Projets de loi présentés par la commission [Session of April 8, 1884: Ordinary naturalization. Bills presented by the committee]. Numero 127–234 (in French). Vol. 4. Brussels. pp. 5, 3 – via Google Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ↑ Ministère de la justice (23 January 1870). "Étrangers. – Domicile. – Autorisations" [Foreigners. – Home. – Authorizations]. Moniteur belge (in French). 40 (23): 297 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Posonyi, Alexander (December 1871). Catalog der reichhaltigen und kostbaren von Herrn Wilhelm Koller hinterlassenen Kunst-Sammlungen [Catalog of the rich and precious art collections left behind by Mr. Wilhelm Koller] (in German). Wien: Verlag von Alexander Posonyi.
  4. ↑ Waagen, Gustav Friedrich (1866). Die vornehmsten Kunstdenkmäler in Wien [The most important art monuments in Vienna] (in German). Vol. 1. Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller. pp. IV–V, 338–339 – via Google Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  5. ↑ "Künstler und Künstlerinnen der Düsseldorfer Malerschule" [Artists and Female Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting] (PDF). Museum Kunstpalast (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 June 2023 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ↑ "Heirat am 23. August 1866 in Heemstede (Niederlande)" [Marriage on August 23, 1866 in Heemstede (Netherlands)]. OpenArchieven. Bürger Registrierung Ehen Heemstede (in German). 23 August 1866. Archivnummer 23-08. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  7. ↑ Exposition générale des beaux-arts 1881. Catalog explicatif [General Exhibition of Fine Arts 1881. Explanatory catalog] (in French) (6th ed.). Brussels: Ad. Mertens. 1881. p. 72 – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ La Belgique maçonnique [Masonic Belgium] (in French) (5th ed.). Bruxelles: Librairie Tillot. 1887. p. 100 – via Google Books.
  9. ↑ Hokanson, Alison; Wouk, Edward H. (2020). "The past is always present: The image of early Netherlandish art in the long nineteenth century". Oud Holland. 133 (3/4): 146 ff.
  10. ↑ Dafforne, James (1867). "Modern Painters of Belgium: No. XI: Guillaume Koller". The Art-Journal. VI: 9–11 – via Google Books.
  11. ↑ "16 November 1872". Illustrirte Zeitung (in German) (1533): 359.
  12. ↑ "Nécrologie" [Obituary]. Le Moniteur Belge (in French). 54 (324): 5382. 20 November 1884 – via Google Books.
  13. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie für 1896 [Court and State Handbook of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy for 1896] (in German). Wien: K. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. 1896. p. 123 – via Google Books.
  14. ↑ "Revue critique des arts et de la littérature". L'Art Moderne. 4 (47). Brussels. 23 November 1884 – via Google Books.
  15. ↑ Hevesi, Ludwig (1903). Österreichische Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts [Austrian art of the 19th century] (in German). Leipzig: Verlag von E. A. Seemann. p. 198 – via Google Books.

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