Georg Loesti

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Zengergasse in Passau , watercolor around 1915
Castle portal and draw well in Leuzendorf , photograph before 1916

Georg Loesti (* 1859 in Munich ; † 1943 in Stuttgart ) was a German architect , photographer and illustrator . He illustrated many volumes of the art monuments of Bavaria .

Life

Georg Loesti was the son of a graphic artist who ran a lithography workshop in Munich . He studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich and after graduating in 1881 worked in the Max von Heckels office . In 1884 Albert Schmidt was his employer; He was briefly employed by Georg von Hauberrisser , after which he moved to Karlsruhe and finally to Stuttgart. There he worked at Lambert and Stahl . In 1890 he started his own business.

As an architect, Loesti was involved, among other things, in a competition design for the Reichstag building and in the planning of the Munich synagogue , and in 1895 he designed a fountain for Heilbronn . But his graphic and photographic work is more extensive. Loesti illustrated the book Strasbourg and its buildings and created a work on the welfare buildings of the Krupp company in Essen . He also worked for many years in the inventory of art monuments and antiquities in Württemberg and the inventory of art monuments and antiquities in Bavaria . Gisa Schäffer-Huber judged his technical drawings, some of which were colored with watercolors, as “free works of art of great standing”; According to the author, Loesti's drawings reveal the influences of Art Nouveau . Loesti also took numerous photographs of works of art, buildings and landscapes.

Georg Loesti was married to the painter Thekla Loesti-Wessinger. The daughter Margarete emerged from the marriage.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gisa Schäffer-Huber: Georg Loesti. Architect, draftsman, photographer. A unfortunately forgotten illustrator of the Bavarian art monuments. In: Monument Preservation Information , No. 151, May 2012, pp. 32–35. ( online )
  2. ^ Edith Neumann: Artists in Württemberg. On the history of the Württemberg Association of Women Painters and the Federation of Female Artists of Baden-Württemberg. (= Publications of the Archives of the City of Stuttgart , Volume 81.) Volume 2, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-608-94192-4 .
  3. ↑ Gottfried Uber, Worn , p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Loesti, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loesti, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, photographer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 1943
Place of death Stuttgart