Alexander Maximilian Seitz

Alexander Maximilian Seitz, drawn by Johann Martin von Rohden , Rome 1835

Alexander Maximilian Seitz (* 1811 in Munich ; † April 18, 1888 in Rome ) was a German painter.

Life

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Seitz was born in 1811 as the son of the engraver Johann Baptist Seitz . At the age of 12 he was accepted into the Munich Academy of Arts in 1823 and learned from Peter von Cornelius and Heinrich Maria von Hess . After he had a success with the picture Joseph Sold by his Brothers in 1829 and had executed some of the frescoes in the All Saints Church in Munich according to Hess' design, he went to Rome in 1835 with Cornelius, where he joined the Nazarenes and was particularly close to Friedrich Overbeck .

Seitz soon settled completely in Rome and there married Gertrud geb. Platner, daughter of the diplomatic painter Ernst Zacharias Platner . The son Ludwig Seitz (1844–1908), born in Rome, worked as a painter and Vatican gallery director in a style similar to his father. Seitz died in Rome on April 18, 1888.

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Alexander Maximilian Seitz worked primarily as a history and genre painter. He mainly painted religious motifs and created altarpieces and frescoes. His genre pictures pick up on Roman folk life and are characterized by compositions rich in figures that are closely linked to the style of the Nazarenes.

literature

Hyacinth Holland : Seitz, Alexander . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 655 f.
Alexander Maximilian Seitz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 468 .
Andrea Teuscher: Seitz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 201 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Alexander Maximilian Seitz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Sonja Baranow: Seitz, Alexander Maximilian . In: Horst Ludwig (Ed.): Munich painter in the 19th century . Volume 4: Saffer – Zwengauer. Bruckmann, Munich 1983, p. 148f.

personal data
SURNAME	Seitz, Alexander Maximilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Seitz, Max; Seitz, Aless.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1811
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	April 18, 1888
Place of death	Rome

[MM19-1] Sonja Baranow: Seitz, Alexander Maximilian . In: Horst Ludwig (Ed.): Munich painter in the 19th century . Volume 4: Saffer – Zwengauer. Bruckmann, Munich 1983, p. 148f.