Eugen Horstig
Eugen Horstig (* 1843 in Waschke near Punitz ; † August 7, 1901 in Munich ) was a German painter, graphic artist and caricaturist.
Eugen Horstig attended the St. Maria Magdalena grammar school in Breslau , and later the Catholic grammar school . He began studying architecture at the Bauakademie Berlin , but interrupted his studies to study painting with Wilhelm von Diez at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich from May 18, 1868 .
From 1883 he exhibited genre and landscape paintings in the Munich Glass Palace . He visited the painters' colony active on the Frauenchiemsee .
He was an employee of the " Flying Leaves ". In the last years of his life he suffered from a mental illness.
literature
- Horstig, Eugene . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 536 .
- Elisabeth Hülmbauer (arrangement): Art of the 19th century. Inventory catalog of the Austrian Gallery of the 19th Century . Vol. 2: F – K, ed. vd Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere, Vienna 1993, p. 178
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Horstig, Eugene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and caricaturist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waschke near Punitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 1901 |
| Place of death | Munich |