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Wilhelm Trübner - Half-length Portrait of a Man in Armor

Half-length Portrait of a Man in Armor (1913)

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)
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Wilhelm Trübner

Wilhelm Trübner was a German realist painter of the circle of Wilhelm Leibl.

Trübner was born in Heidelberg. He was the third son of a silver- and goldsmith, Johann Georg Trübner, and his wife Anna Maria. In 1867 he began training as a goldsmith in Hanau, and met classicist painter Anselm Feuerbach who encouraged him to study painting. In that year he began studies at the Kunstschule in Karlsruhe under Karl Friedrich Schick. He was influenced by artists he met in Karlsruhe, such as Hans Canon and Feodor Dietz. In 1869 he began studying at the Kunstacademie in Munich, where he was greatly impressed by an international exhibition of paintings by Leibl and Gustave Courbet. Courbet visited Munich in 1869, not only exhibiting his work but demonstrating his alla prima method of working quickly from nature in public performances. This had an immediate impact on many of the city's young artists, who found Courbet's approach an invigorating alternative to the shopworn academic tradition.

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. 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".

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. 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.

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". 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, 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.

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Zwei weibliche Akte, kauernd und kniend

Zwei weibliche Akte, kauernd und kniend

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)
Stubble Field with Ascending Path near Wessling

Stubble Field with Ascending Path near Wessling (1876)

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)
Satyr und Zentauren

Satyr und Zentauren

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)
Pippinger Kirche bei Pasing

Pippinger Kirche bei Pasing (1881)

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)
Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)
Stift Neuburg, Kapelle mit drei Bäumen II

Stift Neuburg, Kapelle mit drei Bäumen II (1913)

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)
Caesar am Rubicon

Caesar am Rubicon (1878)

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)
Portrait of a Dame with a Violet Dress

Portrait of a Dame with a Violet Dress (1873)

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)
Buchenwald mit Liebespaar

Buchenwald mit Liebespaar (1876)

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)
Studiosus Michaelis, mit Papierrolle

Studiosus Michaelis, mit Papierrolle (1873)

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)
Weiblicher Akt im Schaum einer Welle; ‘Oceanide’

Weiblicher Akt im Schaum einer Welle; ‘Oceanide’ (1872)

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)
In der Wirtsstube (Ein junger Mann wird zum Kartenspiel verführt)

In der Wirtsstube (Ein junger Mann wird zum Kartenspiel verführt) (between 1831 and 1835)

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)
Return from the parade

Return from the parade

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)
Ludgate Hill, London

Ludgate Hill, London

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)
Eine Menschenmenge, die ein Theaterr stürmt

Eine Menschenmenge, die ein Theaterr stürmt

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851-1917)
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