Emil Teschendorff

siblings

Emil Teschendorff (born May 15, 1833 in Stettin ; † June 4, 1894 in Berlin ) was a German history and architecture painter.

His parents were Johann Anton Gustav Teschendorff, 1827–1875 pastor of the Stettiner Johanniskirche and his wife Julia Augusta Antonia geb. Schröder, his grandfather the ship joiner Johann Teschendorff.

From 1850 to 1851 he studied Protestant theology in Bonn . During his studies in 1850 he became a member of the Frankonia fraternity in Bonn . He switched to painting. In the late 1850s Emil Teschendorff studied painting at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin , and since November 13, 1860 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Carl Theodor von Piloty .

After completing his studies, Teschendorff returned to Berlin around 1866. Teschendorff devoted himself to vedute, portrait and history painting. His works often showed scenes from literature and mythology such as "Luther and Melanchthon", "Cleopatra", "Antigone and Ismene", "Electra", "Oedipus and Antigone", "Romeo and Juliet". He also created wall paintings in the auditorium of the Rendsburg high school. In 1888 he was appointed professor at the Berlin Academy.

Web links

Commons : Emil Teschendorff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Matriculation book Munich (accessed on 03/05/2016)
• Encyklopedia Pomorza Zachodniego (Polish)

literature

• Hans Heyn: South German painting from the Bavarian highlands . Rosenheimer Verlagshaus 1980, p. 255.
• Białecki T., Szczecin na starych widokach (XVI - XX wiek). Stettin on old pictures (16th - 20th century) , Szczecin 1995.
• Encyklopedia Szczecina pod red. T. Białeckiego, t. II, P-Ż. Wyd. Uniwersytet Szczeciński, Instytut Historii, Zakład Historii Pomorza Zachodniego. Szczecin 2000.
• Gwiazdowska E., Widoki Szczecina. Źródła ikonograficzne do dziejów miasta od XVI wieku do 1945 roku. Views of Szczecin. Iconographic sources on the city's history from the 16th century to 1945 . Szczecin 2001.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 683-684.