Wilhelm Trübner, 1851 – 1917
Battle of the Amazons, 1880
Oil on canvas
Height: 47.4 cm (18.66 in.), Width: 102.7 cm (40.43 in.)
Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg (Germany)
In Greek mythology, the Amazons were a race of woman warriors.
The legendary Amazons were thought to have lived in Pontus, which is part of modern-day Turkey near the southern shore of the Black Sea. There they formed an independent kingdom under the government of a queen named Hippolyta or Hippolyte. This area is known to have been occupied in the Late Bronze Age by a transhumant group known to the Hittites as the Kaŝka; though they were not directly known to Greeks, modern archaeologists have determined that they finally defeated their enemies, the Hittites, about 1200 BC. According to Plutarch, the Amazons lived in and about the Don river, which the Greeks called the Tanais; but which was called by the Scythians the "Amazon". The Amazons later moved to Terme on the River Thermodon, northern Turkey. More on The legendary Amazons
The original Battle of the Amazons is an oil on wood painting produced around 1615. It is usually attributed to Rubens, showing his huge admiration for Leonardo da Vinci and his The Battle of Anghiari. More on this painting
Wilhelm Trübner (February 3, 1851 –
December 21, 1917) was a German realist painter born in Heidelberg
and had early training as a goldsmith. In 1867 he met classicist painter Anselm
Feuerbach who encouraged him to study painting, and he began studies in
Karlsruhe under Fedor Dietz. The next year saw him studying at the
Kunstacademie in Munich, where he was to be greatly impressed by an
international exhibition of paintings by Leibl and Gustave Courbet.
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. During this period he also made the
acquaintance of Carl Schuch, Albert Lang and Hans Thoma, German painters who,
like Trübner, greatly admired the unsentimental realism of Wilhelm Leibl.
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. More on Wilhelm Trübner
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