Eduard Schleich the Elder
Eduard Schleich (born October 14, 1812 in Schloss Haarbach , † January 8, 1874 in Munich ) was a German painter .
Life
The illegitimate son of the court advisor at Schloss Haarbach came to Munich in 1823, where he wanted to attend the art academy, but was turned away because he was considered to be lacking in talent. Now he began to paint landscapes without instruction, with Christian Etzdorf , Christian Morgenstern and Carl Rottmann as role models.
Then he formed himself after the Dutch masters, who gained a decisive influence on the development of his painterly style, which strove for a poetic rendering of the mood. Travels through Germany, France, Italy and Holland broadened his horizon. In his first pictures he still dealt with motifs from the Bavarian mountains.
Later he took it exclusively from the plain and set himself the task of giving the overall impression of the natural scenery, depicting the infinitely changing play of the light poured out over the landscape by atmospheric processes and treating the landscape motif merely as a carrier of light and masses of color. The simplest reproaches were enough for him. The width of his presentation was last in a superficial manner over, and he often completed a picture in a day.
In 1851 he went on a study trip to Paris with Carl Ebert , Dietrich Langko and Carl Spitzweg , on the one hand to be inspired by the old masters in the Louvre , on the other hand to get to know the avant-garde of painting.
Schleich was a professor at the Munich Art Academy and a member of the Stockholm Art Academy and the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . He trained painters such as Julius Mařák , among others . The Neue Pinakothek in Munich owns a number of his landscapes, most of which have an elegiac or melancholy character . He had a decisive influence on the direction of the newer Munich landscape painters. He is considered one of the pioneers of the Dachau artists' colony , where he was drawn to again and again from the early 1840s.
tomb
The tomb of Eduard Schleich is located in the Old South Cemetery in Munich (burial ground 14 - number 11 - number 51) location .
Works (selection)
- Moon Night in Normandy (1858)
- Isaraue near Munich (1860)
- Fog morning on Lake Starnberg (1860)
- Herrenchiemsee (1871)
Exhibitions
The Gemäldegalerie Dachau is exhibiting sixty paintings by Schleich in 2011/2012 on the occasion of his bicentenary.
The local history museum Vilsbiburg (Kröninger Hafnermuseum) is showing the special exhibition "... art ennobles me" - the life and work of the landscape painter Eduard Schleich the Elder until October 14, 2012. Ä. (1812–1874)
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Schleich, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 393-396.
- Siegfried Wichmann : Schleich, Josef Eduard Franz Xaver the Elder. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 45 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Schleich, Eduard . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 30th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1875, p. 80 ( digitized version ).
- "... art ennobles me" - the life and work of the landscape painter Eduard Schleich the Elder. Ä. (1812–1874), catalog for the special exhibition of the same name in the local history museum in Vilsbiburg, volume 14 of the series “Vilsbiburger Museumsschriften” ISBN 978-3-9811826-8-2
- Heimatverein Vilsbiburg (Hrsg.) Vilsbiburger Museumsschriften Volume 11, essay “A poet with brushes and colors”, Vilsbiburg 2009, pp. 589–68, ISBN 978-3-9811826-3-7
- Zweckverband Dachau Galleries and Museums (ed.), Eduard Schleich d. Ä. and Carl Spitzweg. An artist friendship , catalog for the exhibition from November 18, 2011 - April 9, 2012, Dachau 2011, ISBN 978-3-930941-73-5
Web links
Vilsbiburg Local History Museum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schleich, Eduard the Elder |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haarbach Castle, Vilsbiburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1874 |
| Place of death | Munich |