August Bootz

August Bootz (born May 6, 1807 in Ettlingen , † April 22, 1851 in Rastatt ) was a German painter and draftsman . He was primarily a portrait painter and also created large-format portraits on behalf of the Baden court. His subject area included religious paintings as well as the three altarpieces created in 1838 for the church in Plittersdorf and the paintings created between 1848 and 1849 for the church in Renchen .

Bootz worked as a drawing teacher at the high school in Rastatt from 1835 to 1850. He also worked as a restorer and restored the Wendelinus depiction in the church of Weisenbach .

literature

• Joseph Sauer: Church art in the first half of the 19th century in Baden . Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1933. (From: Freiburg Diocesan Archive; NF 30).
• Jan Lauts and Werner Zimmermann (arrangement): Catalog of Newer Masters. 19th and 20th centuries . State Art Gallery Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe 1971.
• "O Black Forest, O home!": Loss or adaptation; Hermann Dischler, painter and photographer (1866–1935) . Augustinermuseum Freiburg im Breisgau, exhibition October 18, 1992–6. January 1993. Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1992, ISBN 3-7930-0644-1 .
• Hans F. Schweers: Paintings in German museums. Catalog of the exhibited and depot works . 4th, updated and exp. Edition Munich: Saur, 2005,
  ISBN 3-598-24169-0 .
• General Artist Lexicon, Vol. 12, 1996.