Georg Conrades

Allegory of Emperor Franz Josef I.

Georg Conräder (born May 8, 1838 in Munich , † January 2, 1911 in Opatija ) was a German history and portrait painter .

Conrad began his studies at the age of 15 on October 30, 1852 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Philipp Foltz and continued it from 1857 to 1860 with Karl Theodor von Piloty .

Together with Franz von Lenbach , he moved to Weimar in 1860 , where he taught at the newly founded Grand Ducal Saxon Art School until 1862. In 1862 Georg Conräder was appointed professor at the Munich Art Academy.

Conrad mainly devoted himself to history painting, occasionally he also painted portraits and genre paintings . Some of his works after 1880 were created in Budapest .

Works (selection)

• Tilly in the gravedigger's apartment in Leipzig Sept. 7, 1631 (1859)
• Tasso in prison (1860)
• The destruction of Carthage (1860)
• The Foundation of the Academy of Sciences in Munich (1862)
• Charlotte Corday, who had herself painted before her death (1869)
• The Death of Emperor Joseph II on February 20, 1790 (1874)
• Mary Queen of Scots and the Singer Riccio in Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh (1876)
• The meeting of Emperor Joseph II with Pope Pius VI. in Neisse 1782 (1877)
• Portrait Alexander Andrássy (1880)
• Allegory of Emperor Franz Joseph I (1893)

literature

• Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Vol. 4. Leipzig 1906, p. 260 .
• Hyacinth Holland : Conräder, Georg . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 316-317 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Heidi C. Ebertshäuser: Painting in the 19th Century. Munich School . Munich 1979, p. 177
• Elisabeth Hülmbauer (arrangement): Art of the 19th century. Inventory catalog of the Austrian Gallery of the 19th Century . Vol. 1: A – E , ed. vd Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere, Vienna 1992, p. 163 ( digitized version ).
• Ludwig Taverner: Conräder, Georg . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 20, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22760-4 , p. 540.
• Hans-Michael Körner (Ed.): Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia Saur, Munich 2006, Vol. 1, p. 304.

Web links

Commons : Georg Conräder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Matriculation Book Academy Munich