August spirit
August Christian Geist (born October 15, 1835 in Würzburg , † December 15, 1868 in Munich ) was a German landscape painter .
Geist first learned from his father Andreas Geist, an animal painter and theater painter , and attended the polytechnic school of the Polytechnic Central Association in Würzburg , which was founded in 1806 . In 1853 he moved to Munich, where he developed his talent so quickly as a student of Fritz Bamberger that after two years he appeared as a freelance artist.
From Munich he especially visited the foothills of the Alps for the purpose of studying nature . In 1854 he crossed the Rhön Mountains , in 1857 Lower Franconia , whose picturesque castle ruins he reproduced in a collection of 13 steel etchings, which were published in 1858 with a text by Contzen by L. Adelmann in Würzburg. In 1859 his studies took him to the Franconian Switzerland and Karlsruhe to master Schirmer . In the following years he traveled through the Bavarian highlands. In the autumn of 1865 he began a major trip to Italy . Because of his poor health he spent the winter in Rome , from where he returned to Munich at the end of May 1867, suffering from severe suffering but with a rich collection of studies. But the exploitation of these studies was not granted to him, since he died on December 15, 1868 of his "consumption".
His motifs are characterized by thoughtful composition and careful drawing. Geist was a poet who illuminated nature in its deepest moods and, without coming too close to the truth, reproduced it with the sense of beauty of its lines. He not only made a large number of oil paintings , but also left behind a treasure trove of studies , which he carefully preserved, arranged chronologically and, so to speak, kept a book. Most of it was auctioned off on May 20, 1869.
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Spirit, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 528 f.
- Isolde Ragaller-Härth: Geist, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 161 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Isolde Härth: August Christian Geist - a Franconian landscape painter. Würzburg 1958
Web links
- Literature by and about August Geist in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinrich Ragaller: to art of the 19th and 20th centuries in Würzburg. In: 15 Centuries of Würzburg. , ed. by Heinz Otremba, Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 1979, pp. 353-373, p. 360
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spirit, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Geist, August Christian (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1868 |
| Place of death | Munich |