Franz Xaver Schmid-Breitenbach

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Franz Schmid-Breitenbach

Franz Xaver Schmid-Breitenbach (born August 17, 1857 in Munich ; † January 3, 1927 there ) was a German painter from the Munich School and an art writer .

Life

Schmid-Breitenbach was the son of the stone goods manufacturer Ignaz Schmid and his wife Antonie (née Breitenbach). He first attended secondary school and from 1875 to 1876 received artistic training at the School of Applied Arts with Alexander Streber and Michael Echter . From 1876 to 1880 he studied with Ludwig von Löfftz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

In 1903 he wrote the work Theory of Style and Composition for Painters: With special consideration of the color scheme , which is still used today as one of the standard works in academic painting training.

Schmid-Breitenbach was the treasurer and secretary of the Munich artists' cooperative from 1896 to 1906 and, from 1908, second chairman of the General German Art Cooperative . He was also a member of the General Association of Writers. In Munich he lived in Schwanthalerstr. 81.

Family
On March 8, 1881, he married Jenny (née Bouhler), a daughter of Major Franz Bouhler and his wife Marie (née Wehner). The couple had three children, Egon, Roma and Hertha.

His grave is in the old southern cemetery in Munich.

Works (selection)

Schmid-Breitenbach mainly painted genre scenes from rural and middle-class life, which often served as a template for illustrations in family magazines.

  • In the witch madness
  • Magdalena's conversion

Fonts (selection)

  • Style and composition theory for painters: with special consideration of the coloring . Paul Neff, Stuttgart 1903 ( archive.org ).
  • The style in modern painting . In: German Society for Christian Art (Hrsg.): Christian art . 1st year, 1905, p. 155–163 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Ludwig Glötzle . In: German Society for Christian Art (Hrsg.): Christian art . 3rd year, 1907, p. 217–221 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Landscape, marine, architecture. (=  Jaennickes Handbuch der Ölmalerei . Volume 1 ). 8th edition. Paul Neff, Esslingen a. N. 1917.
  • Still life, pieces of fruit, flowers and animals, portraits, nudes, figures (=  Jaennickes Handbuch der Ölmalerei . Volume 2 ). 2nd Edition. Paul Neff, Esslingen a. N. 1919.

Awards

  • Gold medal with diploma from the Paris “Exposition du Palais du travail” for his painting After Baptism .
  • In 1905 he became an honorary member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative.

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Xaver Schmid-Breitenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 7P Infolytics: Search. Retrieved October 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The Christian Art; Monthly for all areas of Christian art and art history . Volume 4, Issue 1. Art Society for Christian Art Publishers, Munich October 1, 1907, Mixed Messages, S. 7 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - Supplement).
  3. ↑ a b c d Herrmann August Ludwig Degener: Schmid-Breitenbach Franz . In: Who is it? Verlag Herrmann Degener, Berlin 1905, p. 1237 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Graves in Munich. Retrieved October 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Art Chronicle . New series, Volume 17, No. 14 . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1866, Personal, Sp. 217 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Schmid-Breitenbach, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Painter of the Munich School
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1927
Place of death Munich