Georg Estler
Georg Gustav Estler (born March 3, 1860 in Meißen , † November 1, 1954 in Dresden ) was a German landscape painter and draftsman . He is also referred to as the "last student of Ludwig Richter" because he outlived all of Richter's other master students .
Live and act
Georg Estler was born the son of a pastry chef and a grocer in Meißen. His family moved from Meissen to Dresden in the 1860s, where he attended a community school where his talent for painting was recognized. He was therefore supposed to become a porcelain painter in Meissen, especially since a great-uncle and two uncles were also painters in the Meissen porcelain factory . Since these plans failed, Estler initially received private lessons from a painter from Meissen.
In the autumn of 1874, at the age of only 14, he entered the Dresden Art Academy . He drew from template sheets and plaster busts first for Professors Kriebel, Schönherr and Bary, then he painted heads and people for Professor Ehrhardt. In the autumn of 1877 he joined Ludwig Richter's landscape studio . From 1879 to 1881 he was a student of the history painter Julius Hübner . In the summer of 1881 Estler belonged for two years to the master studio of the landscape painter Friedrich Preller the Younger , the successor to Ludwig Richter. Preller took Estler to the Rhön for two summers.
Receiving the large academic travel grant Georg Estler was able to travel to Italy in 1883/1884, where he visited Rome , Tivoli , Olevano and Capri . After his return to Dresden he earned his living with painting lessons. From 1887 to 1889 he stayed again in Italy and painted in Tivoli, Subiaco and Olevano. His painting excursions also took him to the Dresden area, to Bohemia ( Salesel ) and the Spreewald . Mainly he created landscape watercolors during this time.
In 1889 he married Gertrud Schaberschul, the daughter of the decorative painter Wilhelm Andreas Schaberschul . The marriage had four children. Georg Estler's brother Richard was also a painter, he worked as a professor at the art school in Hanau.
Around 1892 Estler joined forces with other Dresden artists to form the “ Goppeln Artists Colony ”, which was dedicated to Impressionist open-air painting. The "Goppelner Group" included the painters Otto Altenkirch , Carl Bantzer , Paul Baum , Wilhelm Claudius , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Gotthardt Kuehl , CW Müller, Georg Müller-Breslau , Max Pechstein , Hermann Prell , Wilhelm Georg Ritter , Sascha Schneider and Julius Scholtz , Robert Sterl , Hans Unger , the portrait painter Konrad Böhringer and the animal painter Karl Hanns Taeger .
In 1894 Estler went again to Italy and Dalmatia. He then set up a school studio in Dresden on Ostbahnstraße, where in 30 years he had around 600 male and female pupils. Georg Estler also worked as a draftsman. Some of his drawings were published in 1925 as templates in the exercise book "Instructions for Sketching Exercises " . He also created landscape backgrounds, backdrops and baffles for plays.
From 1909 the artist lived in a country house on Carolastraße 3 in Klotzsche near Dresden. In 1927 he closed his painting school in Dresden. He remained robust into old age, but an eye disease clouded the artist's old age. Georg-Estler-Strasse in Dresden-Klotzsche has been commemorating this artist since 1993. His grave was in the old Klotzsche cemetery , it no longer exists.
Works (selection)
- In the Elbe Valley (oil painting, 1879). This was the first work Estlers from Saxon Art Association purchased
- Albrechtsburg Castle Meißen (1881)
- Elbe landscape in Saxon Switzerland
- Zschachwitz near Dresden
- Rhön landscape (1882)
- The Poacher (1883). Georg Estler received the large academic travel grant for this picture.
- Verona, Piazza d'erbe (1883)
- Verona, Piazza d'erbe, Old Market Woman (1883)
- Corpus Christi altar, Dürnstein / Danube
- Ragusa, Dalmatia (now Dubrovnik)
- Ragusa, Dalmatia, street scene
- Evening at the large marina on Capri
- Capri, view from the coast to the Faraglioni
- Heathland
- Old forge in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden
- Winter landscape
- Old landslide (1894)
- Morning in the Elbe Valley near Posta / Pirna (around 1900)
- In the sunny south (around 1920)
literature
- Siegfried Bannack: Klotzsche: the chronicle of Dresden-Klotzsche . S. Bannack, Dresden-Klotzsche 2001, 195 pp.
- Karl Josef Friedrich: Ludwig Richter and his group of students , Koehler & Amelang publishing house, Leipzig 1956
Individual evidence
- ^ FO Thieme, Karl Elßner: Instructions for sketching exercises. Compiled from hand drawings by artists. Klinkhardt publishing house, Leipzig 1925.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Estler, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Estler, Georg Gustav (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meissen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1954 |
| Place of death | Dresden |