Caspar of Reth

Caspar von Reth (born October 29, 1850 in Aachen ; † August 17, 1913 there ) was a German sculptor as well as portrait , genre , hunting and animal painter from the Düsseldorf school .

Life

Dog portrait , 1893

Von Reth began his artistic training at A. Fischer in Aachen. Around the end of the 1860s and the beginning of 1870s, he was a budding sculptor at the Berlin Art Academy , with the sculptor Albert Wolff , among others . In 1871 he won a second prize there in the competition for the Michael Beer Prize . He received training as a painter as a private student of Albert Baur the Elder in Düsseldorf . He lived in Aachen, where he worked from May 1, 1876 to February 1898 as a drawing teacher at the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium . Von Reth specialized in animal and hunting motifs and exhibited in the museum association. He acquired particular importance as a dog painter. Dog motifs by Reths can be found in issues of the 1890s magazine Die Gartenlaube .

literature

Reth, Caspar von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934.

Web links

Commons : Caspar von Reth - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Caspar von Reth , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
Caspar von Reth , auction results on the portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

^ Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium zu Aachen : Chronicle , Aachen 1913/1914 ( PDF )
^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
^ Hermann-Victor Johnen: Bridge building. A journey of discovery to my ancestors Bacciocco, David, Deden, Jansen, Johnen, Lochner and Zurhelle . Book on Demand, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-8391-0279-4 , p. 123 ( Google Books )
^ German art newspaper. Die Dioskuren , edition of September 3, 1871, Volume 16 (1871), No. 31, p. 247 ( Google Books )
^ Hermann Schweitzer : Report on the activities of the museum association in 1909. In: Aachener Kunstblätter . Volume 4–6 (1911), pp. 28, 29 ( website with access to PDF )

personal data
SURNAME	Reth, Caspar von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor as well as portrait painter, genre painter, hunting painter and animal painter of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	October 29, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen
DATE OF DEATH	17th August 1913
Place of death	Aachen

[1] Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium zu Aachen : Chronicle , Aachen 1913/1914 ( PDF )

[2] Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )

[3] Hermann-Victor Johnen: Bridge building. A journey of discovery to my ancestors Bacciocco, David, Deden, Jansen, Johnen, Lochner and Zurhelle . Book on Demand, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-8391-0279-4 , p. 123 ( Google Books )

[4] German art newspaper. Die Dioskuren , edition of September 3, 1871, Volume 16 (1871), No. 31, p. 247 ( Google Books )

[5] Hermann Schweitzer : Report on the activities of the museum association in 1909. In: Aachener Kunstblätter . Volume 4–6 (1911), pp. 28, 29 ( website with access to PDF )