August Spieß (painter)
August Spieß (born January 18, 1841 in Munich ; buried there on July 16, 1923 ) was a German history painter , illustrator , wood cutter and fresco artist . His older brother, Heinrich Spieß (* May 10, 1832, † August 8, 1875) was also a history painter. Her father was an engraver .
August Spieß studied from May 11, 1857 to 1859 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Philipp von Foltz .
Together with his brother Henry, he created a series of cartoons for the stained glass Institute of Vladimir Dmitrievich Swertschkow in Oberschleißheim . Together they decorated the Villa Feodora of Hereditary Prince Georg II (Saxony-Meiningen) in Liebenstein . Together they created a cycle of watercolors on Tristan and Isolde and the Flying Dutchman for King Ludwig II . The watercolors were shown at the 1st International Art Exhibition in Munich's Glaspalast . The brothers spit painted also 22 life-size frescoes withallegorical figures in the open vestibule of the Maximilianeum .
After the early death of his brother in 1875, August Spieß continued to work alone. He often worked with the architect Julius Hofmann . In Neuschwanstein Castle around 1883 he painted a cycle of pictures about Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival epic .
In the town hall in Landshut, Spieß created the large fresco painting “ Wedding procession of Duke George the Rich ” together with Rudolf von Seitz , Ludwig von Löfftz and Konrad Weigand .
literature
- Spit, August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937.
- Bruckmann's Munich painter in the 19th century : Bruckmann Verlag Munich 1981: ISBN 3765418013
- Ludwig 1978, vol. 4
- Bénézit 1999, vol. 13, p. 109
- Saur 1999-2000, Vol. 9, p. 381
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Spit, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German history painter, illustrator, wood cutter and fresco artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | buried July 16, 1923 |
| Place of death | Munich |