Eduard Zetsche

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Eduard Zetsche (born December 21, 1844 in Vienna ; † April 26, 1927 there ) was an Austrian landscape and vedute painter from the Düsseldorf School . He also worked as a writer and illustrator of travelogues .

Life

In addition to his job as a bank clerk, Zetsche took painting lessons from Robert Russ and Emil Jakob Schindler . After his bank had fired him as a result of the founder crash of 1873, he began studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels in 1874 . Dissatisfied with his lessons, he switched to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1878 , where he was a student of Eugen Dücker until 1880 . His landscape painting had overcome late Romanticism and was shaped by naturalism . Carl Ernst Forberg also taught him at the Düsseldorf Academy . When he returned to Vienna, he was particularly successful with watercolors, as well as ink and pen and ink drawings, which took up motifs from the area around Vienna and earned him the reputation of a “Bach and castle painter”. In addition, he painted views from the areas around Stift Heiligenkreuz and on the Leitha as well as views from the Waldviertel and the Wachau , Tyrol , Germany and Italy. Soon he started to write essays and travelogues, to illustrate them and to publish them in book form. Later he also created flower pictures.

Zetsche was a member of the cooperative of visual artists Vienna and in this context a member of the exhibition committee of the 3rd International Exhibition in 1894 . He sent a number of exhibitions, in particular exhibitions at the Munich Glass Palace as well as in Düsseldorf and Berlin. In 1914, he received the "Small Golden State Medal" for his painting Old Town on the Main . On December 23, 1924, the City of Vienna made him an honorary citizen . On April 1, 1927, his grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Count 33F / 2/7) was dedicated as a grave of honor . In addition, the City of Vienna honored him on November 7, 1956 by naming Zetschegasse in the Inzersdorf district .

Works (selection)

Senftenberg ruins , 1886
Graz clock tower

photos

Fonts

  • From the surroundings of Vienna. Descriptions and pictures . German publishing company, Stuttgart / Leipzig / Berlin / Vienna 1894.
  • Pictures from the Ostmark. A Viennese hiking book . A. Edlinger's Verlag, Innsbruck 1902.

literature

  • Zetsche, Eduard . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : Painters' works of the 19th century, contribution to art history . Volume 2, Dresden 1898, p. 1047.
  • Hanns Jäger-Sunstenau : The honorary citizens and honorary citizens of the City of Vienna . (= Research and contributions to the history of the city of Vienna. Volume 23). Deuticke, Vienna 1992, p. 82.
  • Wolfgang Krug: Wachau. Pictures from the land of romance . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2003, pp. 162, 190, 199.
  • Wolfgang Krug among others: Waldmüller to Schiele. Masterpieces from the Lower Austrian State Museum . Self-published by the Landesmuseum, St. Pölten 2002, p. 136.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann: The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 148.
  2. ↑ 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. 443.
  3. ^ Wladimir Aichelburg: The Viennese artist house . Volume 1, Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85437-189-6 , p. 143.
personal data
SURNAME Zetsche, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian landscape and vedute painter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1927
Place of death Vienna