Ernst Schleith
Ernst Schleith (born May 23, 1871 in Wieslet ; † February 11, 1940 there ) was a German painter and draftsman .
life and work
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Schleith's extraordinary talent for drawing was encouraged by his teacher in the village school, and the pastor also ensured that he could attend the trade school in Schopfheim in 1886 . From then on I went to the arts and crafts school in Karlsruhe . Here, like Hermann Daur from Lörrach , he studied with Franz Sales Meyer and Max Laeuger .
From 1892 he was a master student with Robert Poetzelberger , Hans Thoma and Ernst Schurth .
In 1900 he was appointed director of a private drawing school for women in Halle (Saale) . This was followed by a study visit to Munich from 1906 to 1907.
From 1910 to 1912 he had a studio in Karlsruhe, which he had to give up due to illness. He returned to the Wiesental . He was a soldier from 1914 to 1916. In 1919 he moved into a studio in the Wieslet school and worked as a portraitist and landscape painter, then mainly as a draftsman.
His drawings are photographic true to nature and dashed and dotted with a fine-grain grid. He was able to represent light and dark in the finest nuances.
Appreciation
Since May 2011, his studio, the Ernst-Schleith-Stube, has been reopened in the attic of the school in Wieslet.
The Neighborhood Primary School Steinen-Weitenau-Wieslet in the Steinem district of Weitenau neighboring Wieslet is named after Ernst Schleith.
literature
- Hedwig Salm: The Wiesentäler painter Ernst Schleith . In: Ekkhard . Freiburg, Landesverein Badische Heimat, 1935, pp. 49–57
- Kurt Ückert: On the 100th birthday of the painter Ernst Schleith . In: Das Markgräflerland , Issue 1/2 1971, pp. 92–95 digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
- Helga Geiger: Ernst Schleith . In: Das Markgräflerland , Volume 2/1998, pp. 138–145 digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
- Hans Viardot (Ed.): Ernst Schleith Calendar 1996 . Schopfheim, Initiative Art and Culture Kleines Wiesental (KUK), 1996
- Hans H. Hofstätter, Berthold Hänel (author), district of Lörrach (ed.): In: The painters of the Markgräflerland . Freiburg im Breisgau, Schillinger-Verlag, 2000
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Atelier Ernst Schleith , accessed on August 20, 2020
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schleith, Ernst |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and draftsman |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1871 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wieslet |
DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1940 |
Place of death | Wieslet |