Eduard Schwoiser

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Eduard Schwoiser (born March 18, 1826 in Brüsau in Moravia , † September 3, 1902 in Starnberg ) was a German history painter .

Life

"King Heinrich before Canossa" by Eduard Schwoiser

Eduard Schwoiser was the son of an artist from Brüsau in Schönhengstgau . On January 30, 1851, he enrolled at the Royal Art Academy in Munich for painting and was transferred to Professor Philipp Foltz's class on April 12, 1853 . At the academy he became friends with Wilhelm Hauschild , with whom he later participated in numerous joint projects. So u. a. as early as 1854, when he created a Sebastian altar for the St. Josef church in Starnberg , Hauschild took over the second, a Petrus altar.

The painting is one of Schwoiser's most famous works

which he created in 1869 on behalf of King Maximilian II for the Historical Picture Gallery of the Munich Maximilianeum together with eight scenes from Bavarian history.

On behalf of King Ludwig II, he painted for the New Herrenchiemsee Palace :

  • Astraeus and Aurora, an allegory of day and night
  • Ideal meeting of King Ludwig II with his idol, the Sun King Ludwig XIV.
  • Phoebus Apollo in the dance of the Olympian gods
  • Mercury as messenger of the gods

For Linderhof Palace :

  • Ceiling painting of the hall of mirrors Birth of Venus

For Neuschwanstein Castle :

  • Scenes from the life of a knight in the middle room of the gateway apartment

Other works (selection)

  • Parish church St. Josef in Starnberg : Altar painting of St. Sebastian
  • Landsberg am Lech town hall :
    • Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian endows Landsberg with rights and privileges and
    • Thirty Years War, invasion of the Swedes

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Schwoiser, Eduard . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 33. Part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1877, p. 194 ( digitized version ).
  • Eduard Schwoiser . 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, p. 392 .
  • Dehio Munich and Upper Bavaria , p. 424, 1123
  • Hiltraut Nulle: Eduard Schwoiser 1826 Brüsau - 1902 Starnberg , Schönhengster Heimatbund e. V. Göppingen 1984. HM Buch- und Kunstverlag Fellbach. 87 pages.
  • "Apollo in Olympus of the Gods". To the previously unknown preliminary draft by Eduard Schwoiser for the ceiling painting “Der Göttermorgen” in the Chambre de Parade in Herrenchiemsee Palace for Ludwig II., Hermann Bauer for his 60th birthday . In: Volker Liedke (Ed.): Ars Bavarica , Collected Contributions to Art, History, Folklore and Monument Preservation in Bavaria, Volume 65/66, Munich 1991, pp. 115 ff.

Web links

Commons : Eduard Schwoiser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 00872 Eduard Schwoiser, Matrikelbuch 1841–1884, matrikel.adbk.de, accessed on February 21, 2009
  2. ^ Hyacinth Holland :  Hauschild, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 77-81.
  3. ↑ Landsberg Town Hall
personal data
SURNAME Schwoiser, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moravian history painter who worked in Munich
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Březová nad Svitavou
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1902
Place of death Munich