Caspar Ritter

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Otto Propheter : Portrait of Caspar Ritter
Caspar Ritter: Portrait of Crown Princess Cecilie von Prussen , 1908
Caspar Ritter: The victim

Caspar Ritter (born February 7, 1861 in Esslingen am Neckar , † July 18, 1923 in Ermatingen , Canton Thurgau ) was a Swiss painter .

Life

He was the second of eight children of the spinning mill director Johann Ulrich Ritter. His mother was born Schellenberg. Caspar Ritter attended primary school in Töss and Gmunden as well as secondary school, living with grandfather, again in Töss. He then completed an apprenticeship as a machine technician at Trindler & Knobel in Flums and in 1879 took up a position at the Rieter & Co. machine factory in Töss. However, health problems and an increasing interest in painting suggested switching to art. In 1880, also on the recommendation of his brother, who was a teacher himself, he began training as a drawing teacher at the Technikum Winterthur under the direction of Anton Seder and Léon Pétua . From 1882 he studied at the Academy in Munich with Alois Gabl , Ludwig von Herterich and Ludwig von Löfftz . After successfully completing his studies, he headed the academic preschool there in 1886. In the same year he married Wilhelmine Sophie, geb. Linder. Coming from the upper bourgeoisie, she was able to provide him with contacts and significant orders resulting from them. From 1887 Ritter worked as a teacher in the figure painting class at the Städel'schen Institute in Frankfurt am Main. The following year, Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden appointed him to the art academy in Karlsruhe , where he taught as a professor of portrait painting until 1919 . He traveled to Holland (1887), Naples (1896) and Paris (1900). In 1896 he received a small gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Berlin . From 1896 to 1900 he was a member of the Federal Art Commission . Ritter died of a heart attack on July 18, 1923 during a spa stay in Ermatingen .

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Ritter was a portrait , genre and nude painter. In Switzerland, it was mainly his genre paintings that made him famous. From 1895 to 1900 he exhibited annually in the Zürcher Künstlerhaus. His portraits were particularly popular in Germany, where he was represented at exhibitions in Karlsruhe, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Munich, among others. Important personalities in society were portrayed by Ritter. Pictures of him are in the collections of the Zähringer Museum , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf , Musée Rath , Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe , Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim , Kunstmuseum St. Gallen and Kunstmuseum Winterthur .

A selection of his works:

Portraits
Genre images
Nudes
  • The morning , picture gallery Magdeburg
  • Bacchante
  • The victim

Awards (selection)

student

literature

Web links

Commons : Caspar Ritter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ritter, Caspar In: Carl Brun: Swiss Artist Lexicon. Volume 2, Huber, Frauenfeld 1908, p. 636.
  2. ^ Emil Stauber: History of the community of Töss (=  New Year's Gazette of the City of Winterthur . No. 240 ). Buchdruckerei Geschwister Ziegler, Winterthur 1926, p. 247-249 .
  3. ^ Jeannette Rüdisühli, Rolf Welti: Ritter, Caspar. In: Sikart (status: 1998), accessed on August 21, 2015.
  4. ↑ August Lord
personal data
SURNAME Ritter, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knight, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1923
Place of death Ermatingen , Lake Constance