Eduard Bauer-Bredt

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Eduard Bauer-Bredt , until 1919 Eduard Bauer , (born July 4, 1878 in Ansbach , † October 28, 1945 in Ruhpolding ) was a German landscape and portrait painter.

Life

He was the son of the Ansbach high school professor Johann Bauer and his wife Charlotte nee Zorn. After graduating from high school in Ansbach, he took up artistic studies. He became a pupil of the orientalist painter Ferdinand Max Bredt , whose family name he also adopted from 1919 when he married his daughter. He also continued his education through studies with the Chiemsee painter Professor Joseph Wopfner , who belonged to the Munich School . He took part in the First World War and rose to become a royal Bavarian captain.

Eduard Bauer-Bredt was mainly known for his paintings of the Chiemsee and mountain views, especially the Alps. Portraits were also made, including those of State Minister Friedrich von Brettreich and the Nuremberg Police President Heinrich Gareis . During National Socialism he adapted his pictures to the prevailing taste of the time and died shortly after the end of the Second World War in Ruhpolding in 1945. There he had lived in a Bavarian country house in the Ruhwinkel.

Occasionally some of his works are also shown in the old school in Ruhpolding, for example in 2017.

family

Eduard Bauer-Bredt married the daughter Hildegard of his teacher Ferdinand Max Bredt in 1919. Their daughter Sybill (* 1920) emerged from their marriage.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the aristocracy enrolled in Bavaria , Volume 16, 1986, page 584.
  2. ^ Collection of the Pinakothek, Munich
  3. ↑ Example of art in the Third Reich
  4. ↑ "When the German Empire was ruled from Ruhpolding"
personal data
SURNAME Bauer-Bredt, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1945
Place of death Ruhpolding