Alfred Schrötter from Kristelli

Alfred von Schrötter: The route planning, 1884

Coat of arms of the Schrötter von Kristelli family

Alfred Schrötter, Knight of Kristelli (born February 12, 1851 in Vienna , † October 2, 1935 in Graz ) was an Austrian painter and art teacher.

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Alfred Schrötter was the son of Anton Schrötter von Kristelli and the step-brother of Leopold Schrötter von Kristelli . From 1872 to 1877 he studied painting with Karl Mayer (1810–1876) and August Eisenmenger at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts , then he was a student of Hans Canon for two years and from 1879 he studied in Munich at the Academy there with Ludwig from Löfftz . In 1897 he moved to Dachau near Munich, where, together with Ludwig Dill , Adolf Hölzel and Arthur Langhammer, he became a well-known representative of the Neu-Dachau direction . As a founding member of the Munich Secession , together with Dill and Hölzel, he developed an efficient method of art teaching, which should give the students the greatest possible freedom to develop themselves.

In 1900 he was appointed head of a master class for painting at the drawing academy in Graz (from 1907 the Landes-Kunstschule), where he worked as a widely known and highly valued teacher until 1923. Alfred Schrötter, who was a member of the Steiermärkischer Kunstverein committee, trained a whole generation of Styrian artists, including a. Marie von Baselli (1862–1924), Norbertine Bresslern-Roth , Leo Grimm , Franz Hofer , Axl Leskoschek , Karl Mader , Paul Schmidtbauer (1892–1974), Fritz Silberbauer and Franz M. Zerlacher . Already as a young artist Alfred Schrötter enjoyed the reputation of a creator of masterful genre paintings, in later years he devoted himself to painting portraits and landscapes, due to his passion for equestrian sport, often to horse painting. The writer Erich and the painter Hans Schrötter von Kristelli came from his marriage to Emma Freiin von Wydenbrugk in 1884 .

In addition to Paul Schad-Rossa and Wilhelm Gurlitt , Alfred Schrötter von Kristelli represented a key figure in contemporary art in Graz .

literature

W. Silberbauer: Schrötter by Kristelli Alfred. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 245 f. (Direct links on p. 245 , p. 246 ).
125 years of Steiermärkischer Kunstverein Werkbund, cultural department of the provincial capital Graz, city museum, exhibition and catalog, Graz 1990, ISBN 3-900764-123

Individual evidence

^ Eva Klein, Forgotten Styrian Modernism. Paul Schad-Rossa and the creative milieu around 1900, in: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Graz, ed. v. of the City of Graz, Vol. 42, Graz 2012, pp. 593–616.
↑ Gudrun Danzer, Peter Pakesch (eds.), Aufbruch in die Moderne? Paul Schad-Rossa and the arts in Graz, exhibition catalog Neue Galerie at the Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz 2014.

personal data
SURNAME	Schrötter from Kristelli, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schrötter, Alfred von; Schrötter, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	October 2, 1935
Place of death	Graz

[1] Eva Klein, Forgotten Styrian Modernism. Paul Schad-Rossa and the creative milieu around 1900, in: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Graz, ed. v. of the City of Graz, Vol. 42, Graz 2012, pp. 593–616.

[2] Gudrun Danzer, Peter Pakesch (eds.), Aufbruch in die Moderne? Paul Schad-Rossa and the arts in Graz, exhibition catalog Neue Galerie at the Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz 2014.