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22-658: Franz Widnmann (1846–1910), painter, graphic artist, and professor at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich , was born at Kipfenberg. Konrad Schumann (1942–1998), a former soldier for East Berlin hung himself in an orchard in Kipfenberg. [REDACTED] Media related to Kipfenberg at Wikimedia Commons This Eichstätt district location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Franz Widnmann Franz Widnmann (1846 – 1910)

44-761: A Latin school in Neuburg . From 1862 he attended the drawing school of the Verein zur Ausbildung des Gewerbes, and later the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts or School of Applied Arts), in Munich, directed by Hermann Dyck . On 30 October 1862 he matriculated at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts for the antique class. His teachers were Karl Theodor von Piloty , Alexander Strähuber , Hermann Anschütz and Alexander Wagner. His early work

66-598: The Linderhof Palace . In 1881 he became the 'Royal Professor', and on 1 May 1892 was appointed professor of the life class at the Kunstgewerbeschule. After the death of Ludwig II. in 1886, he concentrated on graphic art, and was influenced in this by early 19th century artists including Alfred Rethel , Moritz von Schwind , Ludwig Richter and Ferdinand Barth. He also provided decorative design for public festivities, certificates, and stamp series for

88-765: The Old botanical garden in Munich modeled after the Crystal Palace in London. The Glaspalast opened for the first General German Industrial Exhibition on 15 July 1854. Following other examples around Europe, the Glaspalast was ordered by Maximilian II , King of Bavaria , in order to hold the Erste Allgemeine Deutsche Industrieausstellung (First General German Industrial Exhibition ) on 15 July 1854. Originally it

110-409: The "First German general and historical art exhibition" organized in the palace, followed in 1869 by the "I. International Art Exhibition", 1888 "III. International Art Exhibition". From 1889, the Crystal Palace was almost exclusively used for art exhibitions. This affected the forum and place of the international art trade. When it was planned, following the industrial exhibition, it was assumed that

132-511: The 75 completely burned halls, had first to be forcibly restrained by police. A meeting at the Ministry of Culture, which ended in the afternoon, has decided to immediately initiate a relief by a public appeal to the German people on the occasion of national calamity ... After the fire, plans were made to rebuild the Glaspalast . However, the plans were abandoned in 1933 after seizure of power by

154-857: The Bavarian Post Office. In 1894 he designed the stained glass window of the Barfüßerkirche in Augsburg . He exhibited work in the Münchner Glaspalast . Franz Widnmann died 30 August 1910 in Rodeneck in the Puster Valley . He was buried in the Old South Cemetery Munich. Glaspalast (Munich) The Glaspalast (Glass Palace) was a glass and iron exhibition building located in

176-477: The Glaspalast would be used as a greenhouse. However it was almost exclusively used for international art exhibitions and artist festivals. The building was destroyed in a fire on June 6, 1931, a fate shared with the other crystal palaces. The cause of the fire was later determined to be arson . The fire in the Glaspalast irretrievably destroyed more than 3,000 artworks including more than 110 paintings from

198-529: The Glass Palace is one of the biggest destructive disasters to Europe's art. In Germany since the Thirty Years' War were never at one time so many works of art destroyed as by this fire. Only 80 of the 2820 exhibited works of painting, graphics and sculpture were rescued. The damage is estimated to be between 25 and 30 million Marks. [...] A special tragicomedy was the fact that the pictures rejected by

220-473: The Maximilian II conservatory. For this construction, the glass was produced in the more traditional Schmidsfelden glass works. Construction was a mere six months, from 31 December 1853 to 7 June 1854, during which time 37,000 windows were installed. The total cost of construction was 800,000 guldens . The Erste Allgemeine Deutsche Industrieausstellung opened five weeks later, only three years after

242-1090: The Munich palace of Prince Leopold of Bavaria and Homecoming from the Hunt for the Schloss St Emmeram, of the Prince of Thurn und Taxis in Regensburg . A state scholarship enabled Widnmann to spend time in Italy. In the 1880s he was exclusively occupied with works for the palaces of the Bavarian king Ludwig II , especially for Schloss Herrenchiemsee . During 1878 and 1886 he designed figurative decoration for facades, designs for stucco decoration, wall fillings, girandoles , Meissen porcelain chandeliers, crystal chandeliers (executed by Lobmeyr in Vienna ), and for clocks, writing instruments, centrepieces, and later, painting commissions. Further commissions were for

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264-504: The completion of the Crystal Palace in London, which served as its model. Just three years after the completion of the Crystal Palace in London, which served as a model, the First General German Industrial Exhibition opened at the newly built glass palace on 15 July 1854. However the opening was overshadowed as first the staff and later the exhibition guests were affected by cholera . In 1882

286-503: The early 19th century including many paintings by Caspar David Friedrich , Moritz von Schwind , Karl Blechen , and Philipp Otto Runge . A further 1,000 works by contemporary artists at that time were heavily damaged and only 80 artworks were recovered unharmed. The daily newspaper " Neues Wiener Tagblatt " reported on the following day, June 7, 1931, in a telegram: The fire of the Munich Glass Palace, S. 4: The fire of

308-418: The first electrically lit international electrotechnical exhibition took place in the Glass Palace. The German engineer Oskar von Miller had built a 2000 volt DC overhead power line from Miesbach , 50 km distant, to bring power to Munich. At the exhibition, an electrically powered pump for an artificial waterfall demonstrated the feasibility of bringing electrical power over long distances. In 1858,

330-450: The jury were stored in an adjacent shed not affected by the fire. About the cause of the fire only assumptions are known. Provisional Rumor of a discontented artistic revenge, but which cannot be confirmed. The initial investigations show that the fire may have broken out in the carpentry shop, where work continued on the day. 20 firefighters were injured in the rescue work. Director-General Zimmermann, who risked his life to save treasures from

352-404: The large amount of building materials required. The two-storey building was 234 metres (768 ft) long, 67 metres (220 ft) wide and 25 metres (82 ft) high. The elongated rectangular glass palace, in the form of a five-nave and two-storey main building in the hall with a transept in the middle and rectangular extensions at the ends of the longitudinal ship had a length of 234 meters and

374-646: The new Nazi government. Instead of rebuilding the palace, the government built the Haus der Kunst (House of Art) on the Prinzregentenstraße near the Englischer Garten (a public park). In 1936 a small exhibition pavilion was built, but was destroyed in World War II. This was rebuilt by artists after the war. The Park Cafe now stands on the site of the Glaspalast. The fountain of

396-415: The planned and conservatory of Munich Residence, a glass with cast iron design was used, using existing experience for this modern building. As with the Crystal Palace in London, initial designs were relatively complex. Due to the short time available for construction, the design was significantly simplified and relied on use of standard components. Conventional construction methods were not possible due to

418-575: Was 67 meters wide; the height was 25 meters. The building was built entirely of glass and cast iron, load-bearing walls were completely omitted. The 1,700 tons of prefabricated iron parts were made by Cramer-Klett in Nuremberg. The company Cramer-Klett was the leader at this time in southern Germany in the field of iron constructions, the company had previously built the Großhesseloher bridge  [ de ; hu ; vi ] in Munich and also

440-471: Was a German painter and graphic artist , and a professor at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich . Franz Widnmann was born 6 March 1846 at Kipfenberg , a son to the court physician Eduard Widnmann who came from Eichstätt . The family moved from Kipfenberg to Schrobenhausen . When his mother died early, his father married her sister. He first attended school in Schrobenhausen and then at

462-582: Was in decorative arts and design, collaborating on the publication Decorative Model published by Thienemann Verlag of Stuttgart . His first painting, Duke Alba at the Castle of Countess Catharina von Schwarzburg , won an award at the 1873 Vienna World's Fair . As a student and, alongside Karl von Piloty , Widnmann was commissioned to decorate the Pringsheim Palace in Berlin . He painted murals for

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484-527: Was planned to erect the building on Maximiliansplatz  [ de ] . However, the relevant Commission decision preferred an area near the railway station. Designed by architect August von Voit and built by MAN AG , the building was built in 1854 to the north of the Old Botanical Garden close to the Stachus . Following the completion of 1853 Schrannenhalle  [ de ] and

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