Bernhard von Schrötter

A lady in an apricot-colored dress

Bernhard Edler von Schrötter (born August 29, 1772 in Vienna ; † July 4, 1842 there ) was an Austrian portrait painter and lithographer .

Life

Born the son of a lawyer, Schrötter studied from 1791 to 1794 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . After graduation he worked in the lithographic institute of the history painter Lorenz Herr.

As a freelance artist, he painted portraits and miniatures, a. a. by actors and opera singers Antonie Adamberger , Therese Krones , Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient , Henriette Sontag and Ferdinand Raimund .

Schrötter also dealt with lithography. He was influenced by the Napoleon Bonaparte court painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey during his stay in Vienna in 1812 and 1814.

He exhibited his works at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Sankt Annahof .

Bernhard Edler von Schrötter was married to Josepha Freiin von Ruccich and, after her death, to Anna Maria Sauter.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schrötter, Bernhard Edler von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 32nd part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1876, p. 7 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Cyriak Bodenstein: One Hundred Years of Art History in Vienna 1788–1888. C. Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1888, p. 176 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
• Schrötter, Bernhard von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936.
• Schrötter, Bernhard von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999,ISBN 3-7001-2803-7, p. 244.

Web links

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