Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (* February 21 1851 in Hadamar , † December 15 1913 on Capri ) was a painter and social reformer.

Diefenbach is a champion of reform of life , as the pioneer of naturism and the peace movement . His commune "Himmelhof" in Ober St. Veit (1897-1899) was one of the models for the students of his Gusto Graser reform founded settlements Monte Verita in Ascona. As a painter he is an independent representative of Art Nouveau and Symbolism .
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1 Life
2 Exhibitions and Honors
3 plants
4 Literature
5 External links
6 itemization

[ edit ] Life

Diefenbach was a son of the painter and art teacher at the high school Hadamar Leonhard Diefenbach . He attended the Munich Academy of Art, was inspired by Arnold Bocklin and Franz von Stuck impress. His paintings were early attention and recognition. Due to a severe typhoid disease and surgery, his right arm was crippled. Because he thought he had saved his life with natural healing methods, he walked under the influence of natural medicine practitioner Arnold Rikli and Eduard Baltzer , founder of the Vegetarian Society in Germany, the apostle of nature-friendly lifestyle. Around 1881 he resigned from the church and was a member of the independent congregation.

In cassock and sandals, he proclaimed his doctrine in Munich. His ideas (and lives in harmony with nature and rejection of monogamy , moving away from any religion, exercise in the fresh air and exercise of nudism , and a meatless diet as a vegetarian ) were taken by his contemporaries as an opportunity to him as "turnip-Apostle to ridicule "and to follow. After the police had suppressed his meetings, put Diefenbach in an abandoned quarry near Höllriegelskreuth back. There was the young painter and his assistant Hugo Höppener disciples. Diefenbach called him Fidus , what was the stage name Höppeners. In joint work of the great frieze was Per aspera ad astra. An exhibition of his paintings in Vienna had a sensational success and made him famous, but he lost as a result of fraud led by the Vienna Art Society all his works. He fled to Egypt, where he drew huge temples. To win back his pictures, he went back to Vienna in 1897, planned to publish a journal Humanitas and organized a major exhibition. A circle of friends, where the pacifist Bertha von Suttner and the publicist Michael Georg Conrad belonged, supported his businesses. During this time gathered around him on the Himmelhof in Vienna, a community of up to 20 students or disciples, including at times the painter Frantisek Kupka , Konstantinos Parthenis and Gusto Graser and the subsequent animal rights Magnus Schwantje . The standards Diefenbach docked on himself and his followers were quite diverse, he himself lived at the same time in at least two relationships with women, he demanded from his followers absolute obedience and chastity, whose post has been inspected by him personally. The artists' commune, went bankrupt, and Diefenbach moved to the island of Capri, where he gained success and fame, while he was forgotten in Germany. He died there in 1913 at the age of 62 years as a result of intestinal obstruction.
[ edit ] Exhibitions and Honors

After his untimely death in 1913 his estate remained hidden for half a century, and exposed to decay. Only since the 1970s caused public museum for his works on Capri and in his hometown Hadamar. Of 29 October 2009 to 31 January 2010 was in an exhibition at the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, his work made ​​accessible again to the German public. [1]

1927 Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach was in Wien- Hietzing named after him.
[ edit ] Works
Thou shalt not kill, 1903

Per Aspera Ad Astra, 68 m long frieze (now in Diefenbach's birthplace Hadamar in the City Museum (in the castle Hadamar ) issued)
PER ASPERA AD ASTRA! A fairy tale life. Vienna 1893rd
A contribution to the history of contemporary art care. Vienna 1895th
Divine Youth. 1914
NN (Museo Diefenbach in the refectory of the Certosa di San Giacomo in Capri )

[ edit ] References

Alisio, Giancarlo: Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach 1851-1913. Dipinti da collezioni private. Electa Napoli. Edizioni La Conchiglia, 1995.
General Künstlerlexikon Bd 27, 2000, p. 221
Buchholz, Kai et al (eds): The reform of life. Proposals for the redesign of life and art around 1900. 2 volumes. Publisher Haeusser, Darmstadt 2,001th ISBN 3-89552-077-2
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach. Per aspera ad astra: Shadow Fries and seal "of his life and dream image" notes Claudia Wagner. Recklinghausen, break-Verlag, 2nd Edition, 2007. Paperback, 75 pages, illustrated ISBN 978-3-93772601-4
Eley, Geoff and Retallack, James (eds.): Wilhelminism and Its Legacies. German Modernities, Imperialism and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930. Berghahn, New York / Oxford, 2003.
Fingerle-Trischler, Brigitte (ed.): Natural prophets in Freimann. Gusto Graser, Bruno Wersig and the effect of Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach. Accompanies the exhibit at the Cultural Mohr Villa Freimann of 8 January - 12 March 2010. Munich-Freimann 2010th
Frecot, Janos; mind, Johann Friedrich; curbs Diethart: Fidus, 1868-1948. To escape the bourgeois aesthetic practice movements. Munich: Rogner and Bernhard at Zweitausendeins; Affoltern: Book 2000th ISBN 3-8077-0359-4
Grisko, Michael (ed.): free body culture and life. Studies on pre-and early history of nudism. Kassel university press, Kassel 1999th ISBN 3-933146-06-2
Hammer, Claudia Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, 1851-1913. Exhibition Catalogue Galerie Konrad Bayer, Munich 2003.
Kobel, Stefan Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach. The total work of art as a painter. MA thesis, Düsseldorf 1997th
Müller, Hermann (Ed.), Teacher Diefenbach Alpine hike. An artist and a rebel culture in the Karwendel 1895/1896. Wrap-Verlag, Recklinghausen 2004th ISBN 3-937726-00-4
Judge, Peter : The Jesus of Munich, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Sunday 29th November 2009, p. 23
Schiano, Manuela: Alla ricerca della Sonnenland: la missione DI Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, "Heliopolis", 1, settembre-dicembre 2002, pp. 89-103.
Schiano, Manuela: Conoscere KWDiefenbach, "Conoscere Capri", 7, 2008.
Schiano, Manuela: KWDiefenbach. Un artista senza patria, Tesi di laurea in storia moderna, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli 2,001th
Schiano, Manuela: Una stanza chiamata museo, "Nuova Museologia", 7 dicembre 2002, pp.23-26.
Spaun, Paul von (ed.): The case Diefenbach Trieste 1899th.
Todisco, Silvana: KW Diefenbach. Omnia vincit ars. Electa Napoli, Naples 1988th
Wagner, Claudia: The artist Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851-1913) - Master and mission. With a catalog of all known oil paintings. Dissertation at the Department of Art History at the Free University of Berlin, 2005. http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/2007/652

[ edit ] External links

Commons: Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach - collection of images, videos and audio files
Literature by and about Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach in the catalog of the German National Library
Biography
BR-articles Diefenbach
the exhibition at the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich

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↑ Sunday newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine, 29 November 2009, page 23: The Jesus of Munich

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