Alois Erdtelt

Self-portrait, 1903, Neue Pinakothek Munich

Girl portrait

Alois Erdtelt (born November 5, 1851 in Herzogswalde , Grottkau district , Province of Silesia , † January 18, 1911 in Munich ) was a German portrait painter and art teacher.

Thanks to the manorial estate owner von Hoenika, who noticed the boy's artistic talent, Alois Erdtelt studied at the Berlin Art Academy with Carl Steffeck and from January 25, 1876 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Wilhelm von Diez .

Erdtelt ran a private painting school for women in Munich, which worked until 1889. His students included u. a. Rosa Pfäffinger , Maria Slavona , Ida Gerhardi , Ivana Kobilca and Hedwig Weiß . From 1889 he taught at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich . He exhibited his works in the Munich Glass Palace . In 1889 he became a teacher at the Munich School of Applied Arts .

Every year he visited his home town of Herzogswalde.

literature

Erdtelt, Alois . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 594 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Karl-Ernst Schellhammer: Professor Alois Erdtelt . In: Home calendar of the Grottkau district 1931 . Oppeln 1930, pp. 79-80.
Horst Ludwig: Ernst Zimmermann, Alois Erdtelt and Adolf Echtler. Munich painter of the early days. Wilhelm Diez and his school . In: Weltkunst 50, 1980, pp. 1024-1026.
Susanna Partsch : Erdtelt, Alois . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 34, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22774-4 , p. 302.

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personal data
SURNAME	Erdtelt, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait painter and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	November 5, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH	Herzogswalde
DATE OF DEATH	January 18, 1911
Place of death	Munich