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Alexander Kircher (26 February 1867 – 16 September 1939) was an Austrian-German marine- and landscape painter and an illustrator. Many of his paintings are exhibited in museums in Germany, Austria, Croatia and Slovenia or are privately owned in those countries. But there are also some of his paintings in the United States of America, Great Britain, Scandinavia and Greece. The paintings of Kircher are offered at leading auction houses such as Christie's and Bonhams London, Sotheby's New York, Burchard Galleries St.Petersburg Florida,〔(Burchard Galleries ) Antiques and Arts Auctioneer, St. Petersburg/Florida〕 Stahl Hamburg,〔(Auction house Stahl ), Hamburg, Germany〕 Van Ham Cologne,〔(VAN HAM Fine Art Auctioneers ), Cologne, Germany〕 the Dorotheum in Vienna and several others. - The majority of his paintings the artist signed with Alex Kircher, where he sometimes wrote the year of the creation of the image below. But in his paintings, you will also find the signatures as shown here by the auction house to German Bergmann auction.〔(Signature Directory Auction House Bergmann, Erlangen, Germany )〕 ==Life== Alexander Kircher was born in Trieste, which belonged at that time to the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Habsburg Monarchy). As a young man he intended to choose the profession of a naval officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Because of a foot injury his application was rejected. In 1888 he opted for studying painting at the Berlin Academy, where he concentrated mainly on marine painting from the start. His teachers were Hans Gude and Hermann Eschke.〔Painter Hermann Eschke in the German Wikipedia〕 Kircher made numerous study trips throughout Europa, Asia, North America and Egypt. During these travels, he made several important paintings, drawings and illustrations. - 1893 he worked on the picturesque decoration of buildings at the World Exhibition in Chicago as well as panoramas and dioramas of the marine painter Hans von Petersen.〔Hans von Petersen in the German Wikipedia〕 In addition, Alexander Kircher worked as an illustrator for popular German and foreign magazines and publishers of which only a few can be mentioned: The Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung or the modern illustrated weekly Reclams universe (Leipzig), the writings of the Austrian (Vienna) and the German fleet association (Berlin) and the Viennese publisher Philipp & Kramer, for which he designed the postcard series "Dalmatia and Istria".〔(Historical Postcards of Istria, Rijeka, Kvarner and Dalmatia )〕 These include Feldpost, postcards which Kircher greated for the Austrian Red Cross, the War Welfare Office or the War Aid Office and also for the London Postcard Publisher Raphael Tuck & Sons and the Swedish Postcards Publisher: "Gothenburg Lithographic AB and Meyer & Köster" etc. - For some time Kircher owned a steam yacht, which he named Romana - this was his wife's name. With this ship he could better motives collect and draw maritime objects from the area. This he did for example in fleet parades. Between 1895 and 1900 he was a professor at the Art Academy in Trieste and married Romana Salmassi〔(Excerpt from the ancestry certificate of Alexander Kircher and Romana Salmassi )〕 in the Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Taumaturgo〔The Church of Sant'Antonio Traumaturgo in Trieste〕 on October 15, 1898. From this connection, three sons and three daughters were born. - In 1904, after a short stay in Vienna, Kircher moved from Trieste to Dresden, where he lived until 2006 and where he joined as a freelance artist to the General German art cooperative. 2006 the family moved to Moritzburg. From 1922 Kircher lived in Niederlößnitz at Villa Jagdweg 6 and from 1933 to about 1935 in Kötzschenbroda-Niederlößnitz.〔Radebeul - Niederlößnitz is today a part of the city of Radebeul/Meißen in Saxonia (Germany)〕 - In June 1935, the wife of Alexander Kircher died. Then the painter moved to Klotzsche in a residential building, which belonged to the former Air War School Klotzsche.〔see also Alexander Kircher in the German Wikipedia under ''Life''〕 Influential members of the nobility and some industrialists - especially from the circles of Maritime Navigation〔(Anniversary edition 70 years North German Lloyd with the dedication to Alexander Kircher )〕 - promoted the artist. First of them Emperor Franz Joseph I and Emperor Wilhelm II. On behalf of these two monarchs, Kircher painted numerous images of the Austro-Hungarian Navy and the Imperial German Navy. His paintings were also found on the large passenger ships of the time, as well as in the offices of well known shipping companies and shipyards and of course also in private ownership. - During World War II, several images got lost or disappeared. An example of the many lost images is the large oil painting of the steamship ''Columbus'' ("The Columbus in the Kaiser lock"). This painting was given by the North German Lloyd as a gift to the city of Bremerhaven on the occasion of its 100th anniversary in 1927. The painting has disappeared at the end of World War II (1945). - Others of his paintings have been preserved for posterity and can be seen in many museums today; see list of locations excerpt. Kircher concluded his life's work with a series of one hundred paintings which documented the development of German shipping over a millennium and which hung in the Institute and Museum of Oceanography MfM.〔Museum für Meereskunde in the German Wikipedia〕 of the University of Berlin. The current location of the works is unknown, reproductions have since appeared as an image panel work (1934) and in book form (1939)〔(Wolfgang Loeff: Deutschlands Seegeltung, Berlin, 1939 ) in German language〕 and recently only in parts on CD-ROM (2010).〔(Alexander Kircher, marine painter - Historical Image Service )〕 - Meanwhile, 22 images, of which the majority is from the collection of MfM, were rediscovered in the archives of Wehrgeschichtliches Training Centre of the Naval Academy Mürwik in Flensburg-Mürwik. - Alexander Kircher died on September 16, 1939 in Berlin, the last place where he had worked. The painter was laid to rest in the family grave in Moritzburg, Saxony. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Kircher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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