Andreas Egersdörfer

Coastal view with riders and boats

Andreas Julius Theodor Egersdörfer (born September 28, 1866 in Nuremberg ; † October 2, 1946 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German landscape painter and art educator, son of Georg Andreas Egersdörfer and Johanna geb. Kütt, brother of the painters Heinrich Egersdörfer (1853–1915) and Konrad Egersdörfer (1868–1943), married on November 30, 1905 to Emilie Gertrude Elisabeth Helene Simrock.

Egersdörfer attended the Munich School of Applied Arts from 1880 to 1882 . He then studied from April 21, 1884 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Karl Raupp and Gabriel von Hackl and as a private student of Joseph Wenglein .

In 1902 he was appointed head of the landscape class at the Frankfurt Städelschem Art Institute . Ferdinand Lammeyer , the future rector of the institute, was one of his students . Since 1918 he worked as a freelance artist. He presented his works a. a. from 1901 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .

Andreas Egersdörfer was awarded the Silver Medal at the World Exhibition in St. Louis in 1904 and the Goethe badge from the city of Frankfurt in 1941.

literature

• Egersdörfer, Andreas . 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. 370–371 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Willy Oskar Dressler: Dressler's Art Yearbook. A reference book for German fine and applied arts 1913
• Saur 1992–, Vol. 32 (2002), p. 316
• Frankfurt Biography 1, p. 174

Web links

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• Egersdörfer, Andreas Julius Theodor. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Andreas Julius Theodor Egersdorfer
• ArtFacts
• Matriculation Book Academy Munich
• Nuremberg Artist Lexicon p. 321