Eduard Spörer

Eduard Spörer , also Spoerer (born June 12, 1841 in Reval , † November 22, 1898 in Düsseldorf ), was a Russian - Estonian - German painter of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Spörer was born as the son of the farmer and tenant Franz Spörer and his wife Caroline Eleonore, nee. Bush, born. Ludwig, a brother of Spörer, embarked on the career of an architect. Eduard Spörer attended the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts from 1859 . In 1868 the sources list him as a "free artist". From 1870 he lived in Düsseldorf, where he was instructed in landscape painting by the German-Baltic Eugen Dücker . Spörer undertook numerous study trips to Rügen, Paris, Brittany, Normandy and the island of Jersey, to Switzerland and the Rhone Valley and to the Lower Rhine.

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Seashore , 1879

Summer meadow , 1883

Spörer painted landscapes, especially coast and beach pictures. His works were represented at exhibitions in Germany and Austria. For a beach picture from Brittany, he received the large gold medal at the exhibition for the anniversary celebration of Queen Victoria .

literature

Thieme-Becker, Volume 31, p. 397.
Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century . Volume 2, second half, p. 790 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Eduard Spörer. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Eduard Spoerer , auction results on the portal artnet.de

Individual evidence

↑ Bettina Baumgärtel, Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Volume 1, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , p. 440

personal data
SURNAME	Spörer, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Spoerer, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian-Estonian-German painter of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	June 12, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reval
DATE OF DEATH	November 22, 1898
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Bettina Baumgärtel, Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Volume 1, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , p. 440