Alphons Bodenmüller

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Grandmother at the spinning wheel

Alphons Bodenmüller (born August 5, 1847 in Munich ; † June 18, 1886 there ) was a German genre and history painter .

Bodenmüller studied from 1864 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Arthur von Ramberg , and later with Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger . From 1874 he regularly took part in art exhibitions in Munich and other German cities. In 1877 he received the 1st Academy Prize for his painting The First Shepherd's Dance in Munich in the year of the plague in 1517 . The motif - translated into a woodcut - was printed in the gazebo in 1879 . He was the brother of the painter Friedrich Bodenmüller .

He spent the last two years of his life in a psychiatric clinic . Bodenmüller died at the age of 39.

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